LESS PEOPLE ‘DOING IT’ –
June 2, 2026 – Contrary to popular belief, at least in Western nations, mothers aren’t necessarily having fewer children compared with a decade or two ago. It’s that fewer women are becoming mothers in the first place … Lack of affordable housing, fear of the future and the rise of smartphones all play a role.
Some factors are obvious enough — if people are struggling to find love, it means they marry later or at lower rates, and most people still have children after they get married, not before. A fertility-rate crisis is a marriage crisis — and a marriage crisis is a dating crisis. Historically, houses of worship have been a way for like-minded young people to partner up. Religious communities set expectations around the importance of marriage and building a family. As a prophetic saying in the Islamic tradition goes, marriage is half of religion. Could religion be part of the solution?
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