The Western choice to have few children, or none at all, will have far-reaching implications. Not the least of which is a less secular, more religious society.
SHOW NOTES
Steve McAlpine asks where our increasing preference for two-person families is taking us?
Not only are one in four Australian households child-free in 2022, but it’s predicted that between 2023 and 2029 the number of couples living without children will overtake the number living with kids.
This is NOT a podcast about couples who are unable to have CHILDREN. Nor is it a promotion for having ten and living in isolated communities behind barbed-wire fences.
However, for whatever reason, many younger secular couples in the West have decided not to become pregnant and have children. And if that trend continues, then more religion not less is our future.
LINKS
- ‘People seemed threatened by it’: Three couples on their decision not to have children, Dilvin Yasa, The Sydney Morning Herald.
- Click here to learn more about the Love Mercy Foundation.
- And Steve recommends you check out Mary Eberstadt and her books.
Where are we going as a society? And will you be happy when we get there? Steve McAlpine is here to help you answer those questions.
If a Delorean time machine pulled up in front of your house – Back To The Future style – and someone offered to show you what the future would be like, would you be content with what you found? And if not, what could you do to change it? Thinking this through is what Steve McAlpine calls Delorean Philosophy.
Steve McAlpine is a well-known social commentator, respected theologian and popular author. Each week, he takes a crucial trend or event that’s playing out in society now and asks, “Where is this taking us?”
Rather than just pontificating, Steve then provides practical steps listeners can take if they want to change the future. That’s Delorean Philosophy.
