⏳ SEPTEMBER 2009: The Trumpet > Families Upside-Down: In his book Democracy in America, published in the 1800s, Alexis de Tocqueville heaped praise on the 19th-century American family. - #Marriage

 BY JOEL HILLIKER 

AND STEPHEN FLURRY

www.thetrumpet.com

“There is certainly no country in the world where the tie of marriage is more respected than in America,” Tocqueville wrote, “or where conjugal happiness is more highly or worthily appreciated.”

Today, society-wide immorality, upside-down families and no-fault divorce laws have turned the marriage institution into an almost laughably inconsequential arrangement. Sixty-two percent of Americans view divorce as a “morally acceptable” way to escape an inconvenient union.

We’ve not only accepted the plague of divorce. Many now see it as the morally right thing to do in most circumstances.

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