And others refuted Darrow’s tweet by arguing that the institution of marriage shouldn’t even exist, and people should just do “whatever works for them”…
Thankfully, a few brave souls stepped into the raging Twitter war to defend Darrow’s sound advice:
While many people may mock these Christian values as outdated or senseless, ironically enough, research supports the idea that cohabitation does not lead to more successful long-term relationships.
According to studies by the Council on Contemporary Families, “In the last 50 years, the percentage of men and women who cohabit before marriage – ‘living in sin’ as it was still called in the 1960s – has increased by almost 900 percent.”
And while cohabitation is drastically on the rise, so is the divorce rate, which many researchers argue counters the common “test drive” myth.
Amidst a society that devalues the institution of marriage, I’m thankful for bold souls like Darrow willing to go against the grain by speaking Truth to a generation that desperately needs it.
