It is an anti-institutional time, folks

For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside Marriage - NYTimes.com: "LORAIN, Ohio — It used to be called illegitimacy. Now it is the new normal. After steadily rising for five decades, the share of children born to unmarried women has crossed a threshold: more than half of births to American women under 30 occur outside marriage."

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The reason is that institutions have lost their foundation. Institutions are, at the root, meant to foster and embody values of tolerance, helpfulness. democracy and non-idolatry. Efforts to define marriage by these values run up against the actual values that surround and inhabit the institution - ownership and possession. Proof that children are better off with a two parents does not consider that the reason for this may be the collapse of extended communities exacerbated by our car-sprawl culture and economy. We are at the start of something very big and I think it relates to the transition from institutional religion to universal spirituality based on the ontological values I have named. I am married now but I feel my marriage manifests tolerance, helpfulness, democracy and non-idolatry. We need institutions but the ones we need do not exist quite yet. The current trend leads toward them.

Charles Sanders Peirce - Thinking in Threes