This Marriage Problem Is Leading To Population Collapse
The Family Teams Podcast
Jeff Bethke
4.8 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy's daughter, Sydney, is getting married soon, so Jeremy starts off today's episode talking about something every daughter wants to talk to their dad about:
Contraception in marriage! 😂
The whole conversation focuses on the purpose of marriage, children as a result of marriage, and what it means that most poeple in the western world today think having kids is optional.
The numbers are pretty shocking (93-98% population collapse?!), but there's a Christian response to all of this that we think you should know about.
On this episode, we talk about:
0:00 Intro
1:15 Should Having Kids Be Considered Optional?
6:30 Three Purposes of Marriage
15:49 Contraception in Marriage
26:35 Is Western Society Hurtling Toward Self-Destruction?
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Resources Mentioned:
Orthodox Priest and Catholic Apologist Discuss Marriage Clip: https://youtu.be/4v2gCF6fil0?si=lIRCDWFh5QoB1lRU&t=2809
Previous Episode on Contraception: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECwOr1DIeTg
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| 0:00.0 | All of Western civilization is hurtling towards self-destruction. |
| 0:04.4 | We're going to have our own babble moment. |
| 0:06.2 | We're kind of living in it right now. |
| 0:07.8 | And it's because we've embraced. |
| 0:10.8 | Hi, welcome to the Family Teams podcast. |
| 0:13.4 | Our goal here is to help your family become a multi-generational team on mission |
| 0:17.9 | by providing you with biblically rooted concepts, tools, and rhythms. |
| 0:22.4 | Your hosts are Jeremy Pryor and Jefferson Bethke, and we can't wait to chat about all |
| 0:26.9 | things family. |
| 0:27.9 | Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm here with my lovely daughter, Sydney, Grace, |
| 0:32.0 | prior, soon to be something else. How you doing, Sid? |
| 0:35.1 | Good. How are you doing? |
| 0:36.3 | Good. Sydney is engaged in ready to get married very soon, and we are you doing, Sid? Good. How are you doing? Sidney is engaged in ready to get married |
| 0:39.0 | very soon and we are busily trying to prepare for a wedding. So, Sydney, I thought since you're |
| 0:46.6 | getting ready to get married, our first clip in honor of what's about to happen is to review with you |
| 0:53.8 | the purposes of marriage. And particularly in this conversation, |
| 0:59.0 | I thought it was really interesting the way he framed having children. So this is a conversation |
| 1:04.7 | between a Eastern Orthodox priest and a Catholic, I think all a Catholic priest, they're having conversation |
| 1:13.4 | about many things. But when they got to marriage, they begin to talk about how do you have a |
| 1:18.6 | conversation with couples about children? Because that's been reframed as a preference. And one of the |
| 1:25.4 | things I've been really concerned about is that both the Eastern |
| 1:29.0 | Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church have rejected that idea. They see having children as a |
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