1. The Five Basic Institutions
Five Basic Tasks
Instrumental
Government
Market
School
Church
There are five major institutions in society:
The Family
The Church (Synagogue or Temple)
The School (Grade School, High School, University and Media)
The Government
The Marketplace (The Economy)
These institutions are divided into two major groups: the instrumental (government and marketplace) and the relational (family, school, church).
Family
Relational

2. Society’s Fundamental Tasks
Buildings Reflect
Society’s Fundamental Tasks
Government
Market
Church
School
Family
The vast majority of buildings are devoted to the performance of these five fundamental tasks. As an experiment, next time you drive through the city, name the fundamental task performed in each building.
Most buildings will be dedicated to one of the five fundamental institutions. Some buildings will not, but be dedicated to secondary (though significant) institutions such as entertainment and healthcare. Neither of these last two are absolutely essential for the functioning of society. They add significant benefit but if they were to disappear, society could continue to function well.

3. & Produce the Next Generation
Fundamental Needs
Of Society
Safety
& Justice
Material Goods
To Know
Goodness
& Meaning
To Mate
& Produce the Next Generation
These five major institutions in society take care of five fundamental needs.
The need for the next generation of society
The need to make sense of right and wrong and the ultimate meaning of life and the issue of life after death
The need to pass on acquired knowledge to the next generation and also to learn still more about nature and everything involved in living
The need to ensure the basic material necessities of life: food, clothing, heat and shelter
The need for physical protection from evil-doers

4. Fundamental Capacities
Force /
Benevolence
Work
Intelligence
Reflection
Sexuality
Five different capacities are harnessed to achieve the tasks of the five institutions.
These capacities are:
Sexuality (for family)
Reflection (for church)
Intellect (for school)
Labor (for marketplace)
Physical force (for government)
The three more relational institutions are family, church and school (especially early schooling).
The two more instrumental (about means, not about ends --- the person) are market place and government.

5. Fundamental Tasks Of the Individual Gov Market School Church Family
These same five tasks need to be accomplished by the mature adult in order to live a complete and balanced life.
Begetting and forming the next generation (marriage and children)
Dealing with transcendent truths (worship, prayer, reflection)
Learning and teaching throughout the lifetime
Taking care of material needs (income and savings)
Being prepared to use physical force if necessary for the good of the family and when called upon, for the good of society

6. Fundamental Tasks Of the Couple Gov Market Gov Market School School
Church
Church
Family
Family
The effective couple works towards unity in the execution of these five same tasks. The more united they are on how to do them and how to balance them, the stronger the couple and the stronger the family.

7. Fundamental Tasks Of the Family Gov Market School Church Family Gov
All children first learn these tasks within the family. The more unity there is between the parents on how these tasks will be performed in the family, the easier it will be for the children to learn how to perform them.

8. Fundamental Tasks Of Society Gov Market School Church Family Gov
Children who emerge from a family where all the tasks are performed well enter society with a good foundation in the five institutional tasks upon which society depends. In other words, they are competent citizens with well developed fundamental capacities in all five domains.
To the extent children have not learned to do these well in the family, society is weakened in its capacity to function.
Church
Family

9. Belonging: Male + Female
Society At Large
Family
Child / Adult
Father
Mother
Thus the foundational relationship out of which all the institutional capacities spring is the marital relationship (or the relationship between mother and father).
To the extent that relationship is good and unified, children thrive, families thrive, communities thrive, nations thrive.
To the extent this relationships is weakened or nonexistent, children suffer, families suffer, communities suffer, and nations suffer.
Marriage is the foundational relationship for a fully functional society.

10. Marriage / Child Relationship
The Non-Thriving
Marriage / Child Relationship
When mother and father are in tension, conflict, or separated, children feel it and are weakened by it. This is the constant lesson of family therapy with young and mid-childhood children. Eliminate the conflict between the parents

11. Society’s Foundational Relationship
There is a whole new realm of sociology, the sociology of religion, which demonstrates an age-old common-sense set of knowledge: that marriages are strengthened by the practice of prayer and worship (signified above by the triangle). When prayer and worship are present children thrive even more, and thus society thrives even more.

12. Index of ~ Annual Rejection Ratio: For Every 100 Children Born 60 40
Sources: CDC/ NCHS report series 60 40 20 10
90.0
Index of ~
80.0
70.0
60.0
Divorce
50.0
40.0
30.0
20.0
10.0
Over the last sixty years more and more children have experienced the separation of their parents – rejecting each other – either before marriage (Out-of-Wedlock births) or after marriage, in divorce. Similar rejections happen very frequently among cohabiting parents (the dotted line).
In 1950 for every 100 children born:
12 experienced the splitting of their parents that year:
4 out of wedlock
8 through their parents divorcing that year
The next slide shows accurate data for the year 2008.
OWB
0.0
1950
1955
1960
1965
1970
1975
1980
1985
1990
1995
1998
2000

13. Belonging and Rejection Ratio for the US, 2008
Source: Am. Comm Survey 2008 60
54.6 50
45.4 40 30 20
This chart illustrates the belonging (blue) and rejection (red) index for the United States for the year These ratios measure the proportion of 17-year olds—those at the cusp of adulthood --- living inside an always intact married family, the belonging (blue) ratio, and those whose parents have rejected each other (red). We have built a culture of rejection. 10
BELONGING
REJECTION

14. Index of Belonging, Ethnic Groups
Source: American Community Survey 2008
70.0%
62.0%
60.0%
53.8%
50.0%
45.4%
40.2%
40.0%
30.0%
23.8%
17.4%
20.0%
This chart illustrates the national belonging index (on the left-hand side) and the belonging index for each major ethnic group in the United States.
10.0%
0.0%
U.S.
Black
American Indian &
Hispanic
White
Asian
Alaskan Native

15. Index of Belonging for the States
Source: American Community Survey 2008
70.0
60.0
50.0
40.0
30.0
20.0
This chart rank orders The Belonging Ratio in the individual states across the U.S. Utah has the highest and Mississippi the lowest.
10.0
0.0 D M L A A G S T N N O F L N A K W M N D E S M I N O A M I R I T X U H I C W V O W M K V C T I L N C P W I M I D N M I A N E N J M N U T C S A R L A C M K V Z Y V O C D D R K S A A A H Y E S T Y O A T D A N H 16 32 34 37 37 38 39 39 40 40 40 41 42 42 42 42 42 42 43 43 43 44 45 45 45 45 45 46 46 47 47 47 47 48 48 48 49 49 49 49 49 50 52 52 53 54 54 55 55 57 58 59

16. International Rejection Ratio
100 90 U 80 S 70 A 60 50 40 30 20
This chart uses proxy data from UN data sets to give a general idea of where the US stands in relation to other nations on the Rejection Ratio 10
Taiwan
China
Croatia
Japan
Slovakia
Portugal
Georgia
Lithuania
Slovenia
Canada
Finland
France
Macedonia
Denmark
Sweden
Uruguay
Jamaica
New Zealand
Switzerland
Netherlands
United States
El Salvador
Czech Republic
New Calcedonia
Using proxy data from about ten years ago, this rank ordering of the nations of the world on their estimated rejection ratios yields the chart above.
The U.S. is situated in the middle of developed nations, such as those of Western Europe. Sweden, which proposes itself as the model of the modern welfare state, has a significantly higher rejection ratio than the United States.
The former Soviet Union countries have some of the highest rejection ratios. Russia is one of the worst cases in the world.
Serbia and Montenegro

17. Belonging: Male + Female
Society At Large
Family
Child / Adult
Father
Mother
We will next look at how the presence or absence of marriage and religious worship in the family adds or detracts from the task capacities of adults and children.
In the next sections we look at the impact of family structure and religious practice on the capacity of each of the five institutions to function well.

18. Fundamental Institution:
School
School
Need: Know & Understand
Capacity: Intellect
Task: Learn & Teach
Strength: Truth & Tenacity
School
The bigger diagram illustrates the relationship of the institutions to each other.
The blue outside represents government, legally (and thus physically) protecting all the other institutions. The green immediately inside of it represents the marketplace, providing the goods and services used by it and all the other institutions. The tan represents the school and all education. The red within that is religion and church (synagogue, temple, and mosque). The inner pink is the family from which all the other institutions grow.
The government and marketplace, the two instrumental institutions (concentrating on harnessing “means”— force, and material goods), have a naturally close relationship with each other. The inner three, family, church and school, the relational institutions (focusing primarily on the relationships between persons), also are similarly more intimately connected.
All the institutions are constantly connected and interacting with each other but have different cultures of relating. The first two are more means-oriented; the last three are more persons-oriented.
In the next group of charts, we will focus on the impact of family and religion on educational attainment (school).

19. Educational Attainment / Life Earnings (in millions)
This chart illustrates the average lifetime earnings given a person’s level and type of education. Though based on year 2000 data, updates would show similar earnings ratios.

20. GPA English/Math by Family Structure
Source: Adolescent Health Survey, Wave I. Adolescents grade 7-12.
2.90
2.9
2.80
2.70
2.6
Average GPA Enligsh/Math Combined
2.6
2.6
2.60
This chart, using the U.S.’s largest longitudinal survey of adolescents shows the impact of family structure on grade point average for American high school students. The score is a composite of math and language scores.
Children from the always intact married family score best, by far.
2.5
2.5
2.50
2.40
2.30
INTACT
STEP
COHABIT (BOTH
COHABIT (ONE
DIVORCED
NEVER MARRIED
NATURAL)
NATURAL)

21. School Expulsion Source Add Health Wave II 1996
Children from always intact families are least likely to be expelled from school. Followed by children of divorced parents, then always single mother families (who have the hardest job supervising their children, particularly once adolescence has arrived).

22. Educational Attainment
Ideal
This sphere represents optimal educational attainment for the nation, should all families be intact.

23. Educational Attainment
However, with a rejection ratio of 55 percent, national educational attainment is significantly diminished.

24. Fundamental Institution: Marketplace
Need: Material
Capacity: Work & Save
Task: Produce & Exchange
Habit: Work & Honesty
Marketplace
Next we will look at the impact of family structure on some key economic outcomes.

25. Yearly Income, 2000, Families With Children
Note: Figures do not include transferred income
$60,000
$54,000
$50,000
$50,000
$40,000
$30,000 .
$30,000
$23,000
$20,000
$20,000
The data here are medians (50% of families above this mark and 50% below), not averages. Medians are used so that the extreme incomes of multimillionaires do not give a false picture. Using the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finance, we can see that the always-intact-married-family, on average, earns the most.
The married stepfamily comes close. All other family structures are significantly less. The always single mother family earns the least.
$9,100
$9,400
$10,000 $0
First Marriage
Second(+)
Cohabitation
Divorced
Separated
Widowed
Never Married
Marriage

26. This chart illustrates the median number of hours worked in the marketplace each year by different configurations of the family with children. The never-married single parent family has the lowest at 1,279 hours worked per year; the separated single parent is next at 1,620 hours per year; the single-parent family is next with 1,891 hours per year. All of these configurations of the family are single-parent family structures.
When we move to the two-parent family configurations, we see a significant jump, but with interesting differences. The cohabiting family is the lowest of the three with 3,227 hours per year, but within this, the male head of household works the least of the three with 1,835, and the female works the most of the three females at 1,391. The stepfamily works the highest number of hours in the marketplace per year at 3,519 hours per year. (Normally this family structure is composed of a family headed by a mother who works full time when she marries).
The always-intact married family head-of-household works the longest of all at 2,213 hours per year, while the wife works the least of the three at 1,199. Clearly, the more mother and father belong to each other, the stronger they are in the marketplace, and the greater the flexibility of roles they evidence.

27. This picture is used to illustrate an oft-forgotten economic insight articulated by Nobel Laureate, economist Gary Becker, that the mother at home, raising her children, makes a greater contribution to the economy than the husband in the marketplace. It all depends on the timeframe one uses to look at the outcome. This couple’s five children, in their lifetime, will earn significantly more than their father (alone) in his lifetime. The mother is the one mainly involved in making this possible.

28. Median Net Worth of Families With Children Under 18, 2000
Source: Survey of Consumer Finance, 2001
$140,000
$120,250
$120,000
$105,360
$100,000
$80,000
$60,000
Using Federal Reserve data, this chart dramatically illustrates the impact of family structure on the capital worth of the country. Net worth for most families is composed of the value of the house they own, their retirement savings, and some other goods such as cars, refrigerators, etc.
In these data the figure shown is median income, not average income. That means that fifty percent of all families in any structure earned above this level and fifty percent below this level. This, rather than average wealth is used, because the billionaires would quickly distort the average. Using the median, we get a better sense of the impact of family structure on capital wealth.
As is clear from this, marriage has a dramatic impact on the capital worth of the family. Both the always-intact-married and the married-stepfamily have the highest capital worth by far. Thereafter, the net worth of other family structures drops dramatically. The always-single-mother-family only has a net worth of only $350. The always-intact-married-family has a net worth of $120,250.
$40,000
$27,800
$20,540
$16,540
$14,850
$20,000
$350 $0
First Marriage
Second(+)
Divorced
Widowed
Cohabitation
Separated
Never Married
Marriage

29. Children in Poverty, 2000 67 Percent In Poverty 41 39 31 13 1280 67 70 60 50
Percent In Poverty 41 39 40 31 30 20 12 13 10
The issue of belonging, rejection, and indifference, is powerfully illustrated in this chart of the percentage of children in poverty by family structure. Each label on the different family structures is a shorthand history of belonging, rejection, or indifference within the family.
The lowest level of poverty is in the always-intact family (12 percent), where the parents have always belonged to each other and to their children. The real picture is probably even better for many intact families are graduate students whose income is very low but about whom no one is really worried for they are on their way to a middle class income.
The next family structure, the stepfamily, is in a similar situation with 13 percent in poverty. Here, the parents and children belong to each other, but normally in the history of this family there is serious rejection (divorce) for at least one of the parents or rejection originating with an out-of-wedlock birth.
The level of poverty in the divorced, single parent family is much higher at 31 percent. This form of the family is fractured by the parents’ rejection of each other.
The next highest level of poverty is amongst cohabiting parents who are characterized by ambivalence about their future with each other (39 percent).
The separated, single-parent family has a similarly high level of child poverty at 41 percent.
Finally, the always-single mother family has the highest level of child poverty at 67 percent. This is the family structure where the father has never belonged to the mother nor fully to his children.
Data such as this shaped the welfare reform debate of
FIRST MARRIAGE
SECOND(+) MARRIAGE
DIVORCED
COHABITATION
SEPARATED
NEVER MARRIED

30. Source R Rector: Analysis of CPS 2001
Children in Poverty
Unmarried Parents
Same Parents Married
3.17 Million Children
3.93 Million Children
Out of Poverty
In Poverty
Using the Current Population Survey, a major survey of the Bureau of the Census, this chart illustrates the potential impact of marriage on the level of poverty.
The red column on the left represents all the children in poverty in single parent families (the vast majority of children who are in poverty). The blue and red column on the right represents the impact that the marriage of the fathers to their mothers in which both incomes are combined. Were the fathers of children in poverty married to the mothers of their children, 81 percent of tall these children would be lifted out of poverty.
This massive drop is achieved without the impact of the next chart, which, in real life, would have yet another significant impact.
0.75 Million Children
Source R Rector: Analysis of CPS 2001

31. Marriage Premium in Male Income
Source Antovics, K. & Town, R. Am Econ Review V 94, (2004) pp
$127
140
$100
120
100 80
Comparative Income % 60
$27 + =
The earnings capacity of men increases significantly with marriage as this chart illustrates.
This chart illustrates a study that culminates a series of research projects which went about isolating the effect of marriage on men’s earning power. Controlling for all other factors (even genetics --- using monozygotic twin studies) men who are married increase their earning power by 27% in general.
The preceding slide which showed the effect on child poverty of fathers being married to the mothers of their children did not inlcude this effect but used only the earnings of the fathers, not the increased income they would have earned had they decided to marry the mother of their children. Should that have been the case, nearly every child would have been lifted out of poverty. 40 20
Average Unmarried Male
Premium
Average Married Male

32. Average Impact of Divorce on the Income of Households with Children Income
$60,000
$54,000
$50,000
32 %
$36,720
$40,000
Drop
$30,000
$20,000
This chart illustrates the relative drop in household income following a divorce. The average decrease is around 32 percent of the pre-divorce income. This drop is as great as the drop in the U.S. economy from before to the middle of the Great Depression. In other words, a family goes through an economic “Great Depression” following a divorce.
$10,000 $-
Before Divorce
After Divorce

33. Income: Economy
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This sphere represents the potential optimal functioning of the economy should all fathers and mothers be married and should all children grow up in an always-intact-married family.

34. Income Without Family Economy
However, given our present rejection ratio of 55 percent, the economy of the nation and of families is significantly diminished, maybe even more than is represented here.

35. Fundamental Institution:
Government
Government
Need: Protection & Safety
Capacity: Force & Law
Task: Common Good
Virtue: Justice & Goodwill
Government
This next section will deal with the impact of family structure on government’s most fundamental role: protecting citizens from harm.

36. Family Structure: Comparative Rates Of Youth Incarceration4
3.7
3.5 3
2.71
2.5
2.07
Comparative Rates of Incarceration 2
1.5 1 1
0.5
Raised in Intact Married Parent
Raised in Mother-Only Family
Raised in a Mother and
Raised in a Stepmother Family
This chart looks at the rates of incarceration for juvenile delinquents by family structure. This particular chart illustrates not just simple correlations but the regression results after controlling for parental income and education. Interestingly, these results highlight stepfamilies’ difficulties in attaining a sense of intactness and belonging.
The highest rate of incarceration (of boys in the main part) is in families where the mother comes from outside the original biological family to form the reconstructed stepfamily. The next highest is when the father is brought from outside the original biological family to form the new stepfamily. The next comes in the never married, single-mother family. The lowest rate is in the always-intact, married family. There are dramatic differences among these rates: 1, 2.07, 2.71, and 3.7.
Family
Stepfather Family
Source: C. Harper and S. McLanahan, “Father Absence and Youth Incarceration,” ASA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.

37. Adolescent Cocaine Use By Family Structure Source Add Health Wave II 1996
In the use of hard drugs …this time cocaine… the intact married family is most protective of its children.

38. Percentage of children running away overnight before the age of 16
Runaway Children in UK
Step-Families
One-Parent Families
Two-parent Families
Running away from home is highly correlated with drug crime and prostitution in most countries. The rates of running away vary significantly by family structure (by levels of belonging and rejection).
The step family has the highest rate of running away from home in the UK. We do not have good data on this for the United States. 0% 5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
Percentage of children running away overnight before the age of 16

39. Relative Rates of Physical Abuse by Family Structure
Source NIS-4, 2010 12
10.3 10 8 6
5.2
4.3
3.6 4
3.1
This new data (2010) above, is from the U.S. Federal Government’s National Incidence Survey of Child Abuse and Neglect. The always intact married family has the lowest level of physical abuse and the step cohabiting family (biological parent and cohabiting partner) has the highest level of physical abuse. 2
1.0
Always Intact
Single Parent
Not living with
Intact Cohabiting
Step Married
Step Cohabiting
Married Family
Family
either parent
Family
Family
Family

40. Relative Rates of Sexual Abuse by Family Structure
Source NIS-4, 2010 25
19.8 20 15
10.6
8.6 10
A similar phenomenon occurs in the rates of sexual abuse though there are slightly different rank orderings in the middle rates.
4.8 5 5 1
Always Intact
Single Parent
Intact Cohabiting
Step Married
Not living with
Step Cohabiting
Married Family
Family
Family
Family
either parent
Family

41. U.S: Partner / Spouse Violence
Against Mothers Over 20 With Children under 12
Source DOJ Nat Crime Victimization Survey 1999 35 33 30 25 20
Rate Per 1,000 15 15
Spouse and partner abuse varies significantly by family structure: Contrary to the radical feminist critique the safest place for women is in the married family (though when divorce or separation takes place there is a very significant rise in abuse).
However even taking these divorce and separation rates into account the ‘ever-married’ woman experiences a much lower rate of abuse than does the ‘never-married’ woman. Cohabitation is a form of ‘belonging’ that has much greater rates of abuse.
Married men are the most protective of their wives and children. 10 6 4 5
Married
Widowed
Married+Div+Sep
Never Married
Combined

42. Good Law and Order
This sphere represents the relatively crime-free society we would have should all families be intact.

43. Diminished Law and Order
However, with the rejection ratio of 55 percent, crime makes a significant difference in the level of safety that government can guarantee.

44. Fundamental Institution:
Church
Church
Need: Good vs. Evil, & God
Capacity: Reflection
Task: Worship & Prayer
Habit: Piety & Repentance
Church
Next we will look at the impact of religious attendance on the other areas of society.

45. GPA (English & Math) by Religious Practice
Source: Adolescent Health Survey, Wave I. Adolescents grade 7-12.
2.90
2.9
2.85
2.80
2.8
2.75
2.70
2.7
Average GPA Enligsh/Math Combined
2.65
Drawing on the AdHealth Survey, the largest of its kind, we see that religious attendance has a dramatic impact on educational attainment. The more frequently high schoolers worship, the better they perform in school.
2.6
2.60
2.55
2.50
2.45
WEEKLY+
MONTHLY+
<MONTHLY
NEVER

46. Running Away by Church Attendance
Source: Adolescent Health Survey, Wave I. Adolescents grade 7-12.
12.0%
11.5%
10.3%
10.0%
8.0%
7.3%
6.4%
Percent Who Had Ever Run Away
6.0%
The more frequently high schoolers worship, the less likely they are to run away from home.
4.0%
2.0%
0.0%
WEEKLY+
MONTHLY+
<MONTHLY
NEVER

47. Times Drunk / Church Attendance
Source: Adolescent Health Survey, Wave I. Adolescents grade 7-12.
Worshipping God regularly protects people and society from drunkenness…not totally but significantly.
Noteworthy here is the observation that a little religious worship is worse than none in its impact on drunkenness. This phenomenon occurs every so often in the data on the impact of religion. Not always, but frequently.

48. Hard Drugs / Church Attendance
Source: Adolescent Health Survey, Wave I. Adolescents grade 7-12.
Worship protects adolescents and society from many risks ..In this case we see its impact on drug use. The less that adolescents worship the more likely they are to use drugs.

49. Girls: Number of Sex Partners / Church Attendance
Source: Adolescent Health Survey, Wave I. Adolescents grade 7-12.
Girls who worship weekly are most likely to remain virgins and be chaste. The less they worship the more likely they are to seek sexual fulfillment outside of marriage.

50. Ideal Impact of Worship
Should everyone worship, society would be much more likely to reach optimal functioning.

51. Impact of Lessened Worship
However, with only about a quarter of the population attending church weekly (or only 40 percent in church on any weekend), society is not able to achieve optimal functioning.

52. Fundamental Institution:
Family
Family
Need: The Future
Capacity: Sex & Affection
Task: Procreation
Strength: Chastity & Kindness
Family
Next we will look at marriage and family, the institution designed to harness man’s sexual capacity.

53. Number of Non-Marital Sexual Partners
Versus Percent in an Intact Marriage
Source NSFG 1995
Here is the impact of monogamy on the stability of marriage.
The first bar is the woman who has never had sexual intercourse outside of marriage (0 partners outside of marriage). 80% of such women in the United States have stable marriages … stay united to their husbands. The rest of the chart tells the rest of the story: the more sexual partners the more likely they are to divorce.
Even having one partner brings the rate of divorce very close to one in two chances (54 %).

54. The More Sexual Partners the More Likely to Abort
Source NSFG 1995 60 52 50 43 39 40 34 31
Percent who have abortions later 30 25 19 20 18
From the same survey (the National Survey of Family Growth) we can see the impact of the number of sexual partners outside of marriage on the likelihood of fetal abortion taking place. 12 10 8 1 2 3 4 5
6-10
11-15
16-20
21+
NUMBER OF NON MARITAL SEXUAL PARTNERS IN LIFETIME

55. Non-Marital Sexual Partners and Out-of-Wedlock Births
Source: CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, National Survey of Family Growth, 1995
60%
55.21%
49.45%
49.99%
49.89%
50%
47.55%
44.02%
42.66%
40.02%
40%
32.89%
Percent of Sexually Active Women Aged with Children
30%
20%
16.29%
Naturally the more non marital sexual partners a woman has the more likely she is to give birth out-of-wedlock.
10%
1.71% 0%
Virgin at
Had Pre- 1 2 3 4 5
6-10.
11-15.
16-20
21+
Time of
Marital Sex
The more sexual partners one has the more likely one is to conceive a child out of wedlock.
Some may wonder about the first column on the left, “Virgin at the time of first marriage” who has a child out of wedlock. In this case the births represented would have happened after the first marriage ended in divorce, and the child’s father was not the mother’s husband.
First
with First
Marriage
Husband
Number of Lifetime Voluntary Non-Marital Sexual Partners

56. Non-Marital Sexual Partners And Single Motherhood
Source: CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, National Survey of Family Growth, 1995
60%
56.98%
53.07%
50.30%
50%
48.13%
47.03%
44.16%
38.81%
40%
36.48%
30.21%
Percent of Sexually Active women Aged with Children
30%
20%
And to end up a single motherr.
10%
7.09% 0%
The more sexual partners outside of marriage, the more likely a woman is to end up a single mother.
This first column on the left represents those monogamous women who end up as single mothers after their marriage dissolves. 1 2 3 4 5
6-10.
11-15.
16-20
21+
Number of Lifetime Non-Marital Sexual Partners

57. Virginity By Family Structure
Source Add Health, 1996
This chart looks at the rates of teenage virginity by family structure and includes adopted and foster children. In this chart, we see also the dramatic difference between adopted children (highest) and foster care children (the lowest).
Both of these groups of children come from troubled backgrounds but are treated very differently. Children adopted early into intact, married families, are more likely to keep their virginity as illustrated here. By contrast, the foster child more frequently experiences many moves and many experiences of rejection. Hence, the awful outcomes. Adopted children have the highest levels of virginity, and foster children have the lowest. There is a clear correlation between belongingness and rejection and levels of virginity.

58. Father Rated Warm and Loving
Source: National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health Wave 2, 1996
This chart illustrates teenagers’ judgment that their fathers are warm, loving and care for them. The child in an intact, married family is 12 times more likely to experience warmth and love from her father than is a child in the always-single parent family, 7 times more likely than a child of divorced parents, 3 times more likely than a child of cohabiting parents, and 1.5 times more likely than a child in a stepfamily.
However with only 41% of fathers in intact married families been rated as warm and loving there is plenty of room for growth.

59. Female Homosexuality
Using data from the National Survey of Family Growth, we can see the impact of the rejection ratio on rates of female homosexuality (lesbianism). The rate is three times higher among children from non-intact families than from the always intact married family.

60. Ideal Of Family
Should all parents be monogamous, family and society would flourish optimally.

61. Reality Of Family
However, with the breakdown of monogamy and the increase in the number of sexual partners both inside and outside of marriage, the family is increasingly fractured and society is proportionally weakened.

62. Church & Family Considered Together Engels Church Family
In this next section, we will look at the impact of the combination of religious practice and family structure.
By the way, Friedrich Engels, co-founding father of communism and co-author with Marx of the Communist Manifesto, was very clear in his desire to destroy both the family and religion as the major obstacles to the development of the socialist state.

63. GPA Who does best in school ?
This is a snap shot of the teenagers of the whole United States. And we are looking at their combined Math and English scores.
In this and the following charts the always-intact-married family that worships most frequently does best. Lack of marriage or lack of worship (--- he next two scores, one red (broken family), one blue (intact family) --- leads to lesser scores.
The children who do worst – red, n the back corner – those from broken families who rarely or never worship.
College professors and employers take note. Where will your best and brightest come from?

64. Expulsion & Suspension
Source: Adolescent Health Survey, Wave I. Adolescents grade 7-12.
This graph tells its own story: Those least likely to get expelled from school and those most likely.

65. Number of Sex Partners for Girls
1.55
1.60
1.40
1.20
1.14
0.93
1.00
0.80
0.60
Here we see the huge impact of belonging in the family and belonging to God (as measured by rates of worship) on the rates of virginity of U.S. adolescent girls.
0.40
0.47
0.20
ANY REJECTION
0.00
INTACT/COHABIT(NATURAL)
<MONTHLY/NEVER
WEEKLY/MONTHLY+

66. By Family Structure and Religious Practice
Running Away
By Family Structure and Religious Practice
Source: Adolescent Health Survey, Wave I. Adolescents grade 7-12.
13.1%
14.0%
12.0%
10.0%
8.5%
8.1%
8.0%
Percent Who Had Ever Run Away
6.0%
5.2%
This chart illustrates the protective nature of the always intact family that worships weekly. Children from intact families that worship at least weekly are less likely to run away (only 5.2 percent) contrasted with children from families who currently never worship, and are in some non intact family structure (13.1 percent).
4.0%
2.0%
ANY REJECTION
0.0%
INTACT/COHABIT(NATURAL)
<MONTHLY/NEVER
WEEKLY/MONTHLY+

67. Self Control: Times Drunk
As married parents who worship God weekly know sometimes children will not always have self-control…but a lot less than is the case for other the other family groups. Here we see the impact of worship on the family with some history of rejection …it is powerfully protective. Even in families that are no longer intact, those that worship weekly are less likely to get drunk t (24.6 percent) han those who are also from non intact families but never worship (41.2 percent)

68. Self Control: Hard Drug Use
Source: Adolescent Health Survey, Wave I. Adolescents grade 7-12.
Here we see the combined effect of worship and intact family life on drug use among adolescents. The two high worshipping families are those to the right. The “low – to – no” worship families are the two to the left. The blue families are the always intact married families and the red are those where the natural parents have split from each other (divorced, always single, step and separated).

69. By Family Structure and Religious Practice
Grand Theft
By Family Structure and Religious Practice
Source: Adolescent Health Survey, Wave I. Adolescents grade 7-12.
23.5%
0.25
0.2
15.8%
15.3%
0.15
Percent Who Committed Grand Theft
11.7%
0.1
Both intact marriage and rates of worship have their beneficial effects in reducing the rates of grand theft among teenagers.
0.05
ANY REJECTION
INTACT/COHABIT(NATURAL)
The culture is all about how we belong to each other at different levels and in different ways. At the heart of culture is ‘cult’ …the practice of worship of God.
All the following data is from the Federal Government’s own survey.
<MONTHLY/NEVER
WEEKLY/MONTHLY+

70. 5 Institutions: 5 Tasks Family: Next Generation
Religion: Moral Universals, Worship
School: Learning
Government: Protection, Benevolence
Marketplace: Income, Property
We have reviewed how the two great loves impact the five institutions of society --- love of God (minimally expressed in worship), and love of neighbor (most obviously seen in the relationship between mothers and fathers/husbands and wives).
Next we will look at some of the normative implications of all this data.

71. Within all the 5 Institutions: The single most important virtue now?
Church: piety
School: hard work
Government: justice
Marketplace: honesty
Family: chastity
It is an enlightening exercise to try and identify the core, essential virtue or strength that is needed in carrying out the task of each of the basic institutions. Hint: Each of these strengths/virtues are linked to the fundamental capacity harnessed in carrying out those tasks.

72. Teaches Instrumentally
Church & State
As Teachers
Teaches Relationally
Both government (state) and religion (church) teach and mold the citizens of society, but do so in very different ways. Religion teaches mainly by example (relationships) and word (Scripture and moral teaching). Government teaches mainly by force (when laws are broken) and by word (the laws themselves).
Teaches Instrumentally

73. Different Modes of Teaching
Inspires To Do Good
And Repent of Evil
Government teaches mainly by punishing transgressions. Religion teaches by exhorting to good and encouraging repentance.
Protects Good
And Punishes Evil

74. Animus Regarding Freedom
Love
There are two types of freedom. Freedom from and freedom for.
Government is mainly involved in ensuring “freedom from” crime so that citizens are free to pursue whatever goods they desire.
Religion is mainly involved in growing man’s freedom so that he may attain the more difficult goods. In other words, this is growing the capacity of “freedom for” such things as: a stable family life, industrious participation in the marketplace, in learning and teaching, and in the pursuit of prayer and reflection.
In summary, religion helps grow the fundamental virtues needed in each of the basic institutions. These points are illustrated in the next slide.
Force

75. TWO TEACHERS CHURCH STATE WAYS OF RULING WHAT IS TAUGHT
CHURCH
STATE
WAYS OF RULING
By Free Assent
By Force
WHAT IS TAUGHT
Universal Morality
Government Morality (Law)
WAYS OF TEACHING
Inspires (Relationally)
Forces (Instrumentally)
RELATIONSHIP TO GOOD AND EVIL
Inspires to do good and repent of evil.
Protects good. Punishes evil.
In a well functioning society the two different types of teaching emanating from the two very different institutions – church and state --- complement each other. If they do not society is a odds with itself.

76. Society’s Foundational Relationship
As we come to the end of the presentation we can now see more clearly how the practice deep in the family of the two great loves, love of God and love of neighbor, worship and marriage, are the foundations of every flourishing society.

77.
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78. Some of the studies available
MAPPING AMERICA
STUDIES
INDEX OF BELONGING / REJECTION
PORNOGRAPHY
EFFECT OF THE PILL ON ENVIRONMENT
RELIGIOUS WORSHIP / EDUC ATTAINMNT
EFFECTS OF EARLY ADOPTION
EFFECTS OF DIVORCE
Here are just some of the studies available there.

79.
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