Rory Groves

“Out of wedlock births have increased to 57 percent of births, up from 5.3 percent in 1960.53 That’s a 10-fold increase in two generations. Delaying and avoiding marriage has also coincided—and likely caused—a collapse in childbearing.”
― Rory Groves, Durable Trades: Family-Centered Economies That Have Stood the Test of Time

“Homosexuality, pedophilia, and polygamy are in fact old practices; ancient. These practices fell under intense condemnation following the collapse of Rome and the rise of Christianity in the West. Only in the last generation has opinion been overturned. The landmark 2015 Supreme Court ruling on Obergefell v Hodges, codifying homosexual marriage into national law, was in hindsight a predictable conclusion to the dissipating trend of traditional Christian understanding of marriage, family, and life in America. Is collapse imminent, far off, or has it already happened? Looking at stock market rallies, technological breakthroughs, and ever-increasing material abundance, it would seem unlikely that collapse has already occurred. But material abundance, along with its sister decadence, is a lagging indicator. The institutions and social contracts that have supported our way of life for centuries—marriage, family, faith, community and morality—have been utterly decimated. While it is true modern efficiencies continue to increase, the stock that maintains it has been depleted. As Rod Dreher has said, The West has lost the golden thread that binds us to God, Creation, and each other. Unless we find it again, there is no hope of halting our dissolution. . . . The shadow of the Enlightenment’s failure to replace God with reason has”
― Rory Groves, Durable Trades: Family-Centered Economies That Have Stood the Test of Time