It has also been the biggest *encourager* of artificial birth control because, let’s face it, the woman needs to get back to WORK. And, who can afford day-care for 8 kids? So, it’s been feeding into all of this now for quite some time. yet, as law-suits and shows have shown some of the neglect and abuse in day-care centers or even in privately hired nannies, families are left with the fact that this is TRULY a selfish decision to put our children in these situations. Now if statistics like this can be published FRONT AND CENTER in the newspapers that divorce is higher in two-income families and crime is higher in kids of single parents, THEN I think we just might see a positive change. Maybe I’m being naive but I have to believe that people, in the end, want to do the right thing … they just get duped at times as to WHAT that right thing is. (They are not looking to the Church for their guidance … and the Church isn’t always consistent with her guidance.)

Of course, I didn’t even comment on the parts of the article that is addressing the homosexual desires to marriage … that’s another whole mess. But, as the article mentioned, children need a mother and a father … not care-givers or a loving couple of some sort. Enough data really needs to get collected on the outcome of children from all of these different environments before we can appeal to people’s sense of logic. It seems we cannot appeal to their sense of morals anymore … so I keep thinking that we need to get through their sense of logic and then show how it connects to Church teaching and hope they will come home through the back door. Again, maybe I’m being naive, but without hope it would all be way too depressing.

I am not sure if you are familiar with the organization Corpus Christianum but it is another association which promotes prayer for the family, Christendom, etc.