We’re Ignoring a Root Cause of Our Problems, by Nathan Schlueter

By Nathan Schlueter, Crisis Magazine, Agu. 17, 2022

Nathan Schlueter is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Hillsdale College. He is the author of several books and articles, as well as the popular online course “Introduction to Western Philosophy.”

Everyone today is concerned about the sharp increase in social pathologies in America: addiction, mental illness, suicide, violent crime, and so forth. They want to blame the economy, social media, the pharmaceutical industry, the gun lobby. Recently, some people have suggested a connection between mass shootings and marijuana use. But what I want to know is this: How many mass shooters were raised by parents in an intact, biological marriage? Why has this information not even been collected?

The fact is, no one seems to want to talk about what is probably the single greatest contributor to our social pathologies: the breakdown of marriage and the family. …

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