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'Sex recession': Study suggests Americans have lost their mojo



Movies and television programs reportedly have significantly more sexual content, nudity, and immodesty now than those shown just a few decades ago. The so-called "adult entertainment" industry has, meanwhile, exploded, with one projection suggesting that it will grow from an estimated global market size of $58.8 billion in 2023 to $74.7 billion by 2030.

While depictions of sex are ubiquitous in the media, a new study suggests that the real thing is disappearing from the lives of everyday Americans.

The delay and avoidance of marriage appear to be another major factor.

Citing General Social Survey data, the Institute for Family Studies recently indicated that "Americans are having a record-low amount of sex."

Whereas in 1990, 55% of adults ages 18 to 64 reportedly were having sex at least once a week, that number reportedly dropped to less than 50% by the turn of the century. As of last year, the percentage of adults ages 18-64 having sex weekly had fallen all the way down to 37%.

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When it comes to individuals ages 18-29 who reported not having sex in the last year, the number held steady at around 15% of respondents until 2010. However, between 2010 and 2024, that number skyrocketed to 24% in the General Social Survey.

There appear to be numerous factors at play, including shifting social norms; libido-killing prescription drugs; the pandemic; decreasing alcohol consumption; the interpersonal impact of social media, gaming, and the smartphone; and pornography. The delay and avoidance of marriage appear to be another major factor.

Dr. Brad Wilcox, professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and director of the National Marriage Project, and Lyman Stone, director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the IFS, noted in a 2019 article in the Atlantic that married people have sex more often but that the share of adults who are married was falling to record lows.

Whereas 46% of married men and women ages 18-64 reported having weekly sex, only 34% of their unmarried peers reported the same, said the new IFS study. However, married couples are also facing a so-called "sex recession," as 59% of married adults ages 18-64 reportedly had sex once a week in the period between 1996 and 2008.

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The new IFS study noted that younger generations are having less sex than their predecessors did in part because of a "decline in steady partnering, especially in marriage, and a decline in sexual frequency within couples."

This "sex recession" has some obvious implications besides youngsters' joylessness.

Data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in July revealed that U.S. fertility rates dropped to an all-time low in last year, with 1.599 children being born per woman. For comparison, the latest reported fertility rates in Australia, England and Wales, Canada, and China are 1.5, 1.44, 1.26, and 1.01, respectively.

The fertility rate necessary for a population to maintain stability and replenish itself without requiring replacement by foreign nationals is 2.1.

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Fired cop avoids jail time after allegedly groping OnlyFans star in X-rated 'traffic stop' video while on duty



A former Tennessee police officer will avoid a jail sentence after he made a plea deal regarding an incident involving his appearance in an X-rated video.

As Blaze News reported in May 2024, the Metro Nashville Police Department was notified that one of the department's officers allegedly appeared in an OnlyFans video titled: "Can't believe he didn't arrest me."

'That was one of the most outrageous, disrespectful acts that a person here could do ...'

The video — posted on the adult-oriented subscription online platform — reportedly shows a police officer pulling a woman over. The officer's police cruiser is seen in the sexual video.

During the fake traffic stop, the cop identifies himself as "Officer Johnson."

The woman in the video allegedly pulls down her top to expose her breasts and offers that the officer may touch her.

WTVF-TV reported that the OnlyFans model offered for the "officer to grope her breasts, which he does while she is seen grabbing his crotch."

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In the video, the officer appears to have a Metro Nashville Police Department patch on the shoulder of his uniform.

Investigators determined that the cop in the X-rated video was 35-year-old Sean Herman, an officer with the Metro Nashville Police Department.

Nashville police said in June 2024, "Specialized Investigations Division detectives discovered the video and identified him as the person in an MNPD uniform, seen in the video from the chest down, who took part in a mock traffic stop in an OnlyFans skit during which he groped the exposed breast of the female driver."

Investigators determined that the video was filmed in a warehouse parking lot on April 26, 2024, while Herman was "on duty as a patrol officer in the Madison Precinct."

Herman was fired from the department on May 9, 2024. He had been employed with the Metro Nashville Police Department for three years.

"That was one of the most outrageous, disrespectful acts that a person here could do, and by disrespectful, I mean to all the MNPD employees and this agency," Metro Nashville Police Department spokesperson Don Aaron told WTVF in May 2024.

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In June 2024, Herman was arrested and charged with two counts of official misconduct. He was later released on a $3,000 bond.

On Thursday, Herman avoided a jail sentence by entering a "best interest" plea in Nashville criminal court for a felony count of official misconduct, according to the Associated Press.

"The best interest plea means that a defendant pleads guilty while maintaining factual innocence of the crime," according to the AP.

The second count of official misconduct was dropped, and Herman was sentenced to one year of supervised probation.

CBS News reported, "Additionally, he was granted judicial diversion, which means that certain eligible defendants who successfully finish probation under the judge's conditions will have their cases dismissed. They can also then request that charges be expunged from their record."

The AP added that a state board indefinitely suspended Herman's law enforcement officer certification, although he could petition for reinstatement following closure of the criminal case.

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Why America can — and must — outlaw pornography



My daughter is 7 years old. She is adorable, kindhearted, and full of life. I would do anything to protect her.

Now think about all the 7-year-olds in your life — children, nephews, nieces, neighbor kids. Statistically speaking, 50% of them will be exposed to pornography in the next five years. Read this paragraph repeatedly until the gravity of it hits you.

Family is the building block of society, and pornography is the corrosive acid that is eating away at its foundation.

As bad as a Playboy would be, I am not talking about a magazine. I am talking about the most depraved, hard-core, and often violent sexual intercourse footage ever conceived in the human mind that is available with a few clicks to anyone with access to a smartphone or computer. The median age of first exposure to this content is 12 years old; 15% will view hard-core pornography before they graduate elementary school.

As Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is finding out, age verification checks are doing little to deter any of this and are as easy to pass through as our border during the Biden administration.

What kind of sick society allows this?

Pornography's effects

Pornography is a corrosive acid that rots the soul; steals innocence; destroys marriages; fuels objectification, exploitation, and sex trafficking of women and children; increases rape and abuse rates; and unravels the moral fabric of society, causing great public harm. It increases anxiety, shame, sexual dysfunction, and relationship unhappiness among those who use it.

As J.C. Ryle said well, “Nothing darkens the mind so much as sin; it is the cloud which hides the face of God from us.”

Porn use affects every part of our mind, body, and soul. It inflicts immense external harms on individuals and society.

Not only does it directly warp the minds of America’s children, it affects them in indirect ways. Recent data indicates that marriages in which at least one spouse views pornography are nearly twice as likely to result in divorce, and the effects of divorce on children are staggering. Children of divorced parents often experience heightened levels of anxiety, depression, and behavioral issues.

A study by the University of Illinois Chicago indicates that divorce may lead to social withdrawal, attachment difficulties, and increased behavioral problems in children.

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Research published in the Journal of Divorce & Remarriage found that children from divorced families are more likely to exhibit lower academic performance compared to their peers from intact families. Data from PLOS One indicates that individuals who experienced parental divorce before the age of 18 have a 61% higher risk of experiencing a stroke in adulthood. Research from Baylor University indicates that adults who experienced parental divorce during childhood have lower levels of oxytocin, a hormone associated with relationship bonding and emotional regulation.

Family is the building block of society, and pornography is the corrosive acid that is eating away at its foundation. Without any redeeming element whatsoever, pornography destroys marriages, destroys lives, and steals the innocence and protection of the young.

All of these outcomes are the result of a choice made by public officials who refuse to stand in the way of this obscene content being published.

What kind of sick society allows this?

What about the First Amendment?

Pornography is not “speech” in any meaningful, constitutionally protected sense. We rightly prohibit prostitution. Yet somehow, when the same act is filmed and distributed to millions of people over the internet, prostitution becomes exalted as “protected speech.”

This is legal nonsense of the highest order. It insults the intelligence of the American people and is a crime against children and the moral fabric of any society. To claim that the founding fathers fought and bled to secure a right to broadcast prostitution is as absurd as it is evil.

No serious person believes this legal framework is the result of honest lawmaking or faithful judicial interpretation. Rather, this perverse outcome is a product of cultural rot and late 20th-century judicial activism. Our courts were captured by ideologues more committed to preserving the sexual revolution at any cost than upholding constitutional fidelity.

But common-law tradition and Supreme Court precedent provide a clear path to prohibition.

Justice William Rehnquist, writing for the Supreme Court in Barnes v. Glen Theatre (1991), rightly noted that public nudity was a criminal offense at common law. The founders did not interpret the First Amendment as a shield for public obscenity, indecency, or exhibitionism. In fact, Miller v. California (1973) gives us the legal test we need: If material appeals to the prurient interest, depicts sexual conduct in a patently offensive way as defined by contemporary standards, and lacks serious political, educational, or artistic value, it is not protected by the First Amendment.

Modern pornography clearly meets all three criteria — except where legislatures have failed to define and prohibit it accordingly.

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Pornography’s advocates point to Reno v. ACLU (1997), but the ruling was based on the failure of the bill in question to distinguish “obscene” from “indecent.” Moreover, the court justified its decision by claiming the internet was less invasive than radio or television.

How well does that assertion hold up 28 years later?

The internet is now the primary battleground for the soul of this generation. Because of its incorrect factual findings and clear disregard for the power clearly reserved to the states, any element of Reno and other opinions that would prohibit states and municipalities from banning public obscenity should be overturned. There are upcoming opportunities to do so. State legislatures need to provide more.

It is past time for us to recognize that publishing prostitution footage is not speech — it is an attack on human decency and the moral fabric necessary to hold families and the republic together. We must deal with it as such.

That is why I filed SB593 to abolish pornography in Oklahoma.

What SB593 does

SB593 would define “obscenity” according to the Miller test and outlaw the production, distribution, sale, and possession of obscene pornography in Oklahoma. It would re-establish the state’s authority to prosecute those who profit from the destruction of marriage, innocence, and society. It would empower law enforcement to shut down pornography rings that exploit women and children. It also increases penalties for child pornography.

The American people — many suffering the effects of a culture drowning in pornographic material — are increasingly supportive of bills like this one.

A society without pornography is better than one with it.

A 2024 YouGov poll found that support for and opposition to the total pornography ban suggested by Project 2025 were split evenly at 42-42. Among Republican voters, 60% were in support, with only 27% opposed. Republican officials can ban pornography, knowing their voters have their back by a greater than two-to-one margin.

Many object that the bill, or others like it, will be challenged in court, but that is no reason to shrink back. The goal is to pass the bill, but not merely that — it is also to force a reckoning. The Miller test provides a well-established framework to ban obscene pornography. The factual findings from Reno have been proven disastrously wrong.

Public opposition to pornography is rising. There is no better time to put this discussion before the American people and the Supreme Court.

Time to act

The left possesses no limiting principle to forcing its twisted, Marxist vision of the good on society. Leftists weaponize agencies to perform raids on political opponents, meme-makers, and pro-life protesters. They collude with social media companies to censor right-leaning opinions. They shut down businesses and churches.

Yet too many on the right still flinch at any minor deviation from utter libertinism.

A society without pornography is better than one with it. Everyone knows this, yet too many cling to unlimited, laissez-faire state approval of public prostitution footage. People have been conditioned to believe that the highest conservative principle is inaction and “neutrality.”

It is children who pay the biggest price for this folly.

Pornography exemplifies this crisis: It objectifies people made as God’s image-bearers, reducing them to commodities for gratification, thus defacing the imago Dei and alienating us from our creator. Neurologically and spiritually, it rewires the brain's reward pathways, creating addictive filters that pervert sexual perception and fracture body-soul unity, as Jesus warns in Matthew 5:28.

This echoes broader anthropological harms, fueling exploitation, addiction, and societal division that undermine human flourishing and the common good.

In legislating against it, we affirm God's design for humanity. This is not about criminalizing private lustful thoughts (a sin for the church) but addressing external actions that exploit, addict, and divide (a crime for the state). By enacting such a law, we honor God, protect the vulnerable, and fulfill our duty to promote the common good.

What kind of sick society allows pornography?

For the sake of children and the survival of the republic, pornography must be abolished.

Pornography is a threat to families — and to civilization



The French government recently implemented a law requiring internet users to verify their age before accessing adult websites. In response, leading porn purveyor Pornhub blocked access to its site in France, its second biggest market after the United States, citing concern for user privacy.

This is just one piece of a larger effort in France to protect minors online. Authorities have also proposed restrictions on platforms like X and Bluesky, and President Emmanuel Macron has voiced support for banning social media access for children under 15.

The effects of early and chronic pornography exposure go far beyond the individual. What’s at stake is our shared understanding of sex, intimacy, and family.

France is not alone. Pornhub has already pulled out of 19 U.S. states over similar age-verification laws. And across the European Union, countries such as Spain, Italy, Germany, and Belgium are either considering new laws or expanding existing ones. Globally, Pornhub is banned in numerous countries, including Russia, China, India, and Pakistan.

At first glance, these laws may seem largely symbolic — easy to bypass for anyone with modest technical skills. And it’s true that they probably won’t stop determined adults or teens from finding workarounds. But that doesn’t mean they’re meaningless. In fact, we should celebrate these laws and others like them for two reasons.

First: Anything is better than nothing. Any law that makes it harder to access pornography is a good thing.

Second: The exposure of children to pornography is one of the most dangerous and under-acknowledged threats to our social fabric.

A 2022 study by Common Sense Media revealed alarming statistics:

  • The median age of first exposure to pornography is just 12 years old, with many children exposed even earlier.
  • 73% of all minors under 17 have consumed pornography.
  • Of those exposed, 29% viewed it unintentionally, and of that group, 63% had been exposed in just the last week.

These numbers are staggering. They make it clear that pornography isn’t a fringe or hidden danger — it’s ambient. It’s part of everyday life for today’s youth. Even more disturbing: 63% of teens say they’re “OK” with the amount of pornography they consume.

This isn’t just a moral or spiritual problem — it’s a neurological and cultural crisis.

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Pornography is addictive — and disordering

Pornography is, by its nature, addictive. Like all addictions, it escalates: To sustain stimulation, the user must consume more — and often more extreme — content. But unlike many other addictions, pornography doesn’t just compromise behavior; it rewires the very foundations of a person’s sexual identity.

This is particularly dangerous for children. Young brains are pliable, and early experiences shape long-term patterns. The brain’s neurochemical response to sexual excitation — especially when triggered by pornography — creates what might be called a “first wire”: a foundational neurological connection that can define future desires, expectations, and impulses.

This is why early sexual exposure is so damaging — and why child sexual abuse causes such long-term trauma. Even in the absence of physical abuse, when the exposure is virtual and indirect, the impact can be profound. The body’s natural processes are being hijacked and twisted at the developmental level. Left unchecked, these patterns harden into addiction and dysfunction.

The cultural fallout

The effects of early and chronic pornography exposure go far beyond the individual. What’s at stake is our shared understanding of sex, intimacy, and family.

When young people learn about sexuality through pornography, rather than through healthy relationships, spiritual formation, or parental guidance, their entire framework for love, marriage, and family is warped. And because sexual identity is upstream from marriage and family, and because marriage and family are the bedrock of civilization, the consequences ripple outward across society.

This is not hyperbole. A society cannot survive without stable, self-giving families. And families cannot form or flourish if children are neurologically and morally disabled before they even reach adulthood. If a generation’s understanding of love and sexuality is shaped by pornography, then everything that flows from sexuality — courtship, commitment, procreation, parenting — is at risk of disintegration.

A moral and political imperative

We must stop treating pornography as merely a private moral failing. It is a public hazard. It is a systemic threat to the future of families, and by extension, to the future of nations.

The United States, a country that promises “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” should feel no hesitation in restricting or even prohibiting the industrial distribution of content that destroys life, undermines liberty, and poisons the very possibility of happiness.

Critics may call such laws prudish or paternalistic. But in truth, they represent a long-overdue return to moral sanity. They affirm what was once widely understood: that children must be protected from premature exposure to sexuality; that families are the cornerstone of any lasting civilization; and that not all freedoms are worth preserving when they come at the expense of human dignity.

A culture that cannot draw a line around what defiles its children is not a culture that can endure. Laws like France’s are a small but essential step in the right direction — and they deserve our full support.

Porn's dark empire is collapsing — here's how the fight is being won



Pornography is having a moment — and not in the way purveyors of pornography would like.

As a matter of fact, the foundations of the commercial sex industry are starting to disintegrate. Exhibit A: In a historic decision last month, the Supreme Court upheld the Texas age verification law protecting children from easily accessing harmful pornography online.

Pornography sites built their empires, in no small part, by allowing, encouraging, and profiting from the distribution of image-based sexual abuse material on their platforms.

It's proof the tide is finally turning against the pornography industry.

States are pushing back against the sexual abuse and exploitation found on pornography sites like Pornhub, XVideos, and others by passing legislative solutions like age verification, device filter legislation, and the App Store Accountability Act to curb children’s access to content that is harmful to them. Surely, with the Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of age verification, more states are likely to follow.

A Kansas mother recently filed lawsuits against four pornography sites for allegedly failing to implement age verification on their websites as required by Kansas law.

The European Union, meanwhile, is investigating Pornhub, XVideos, XNXX, and Stripchat for allegedly failing to protect children from accessing their sites in violation of the Digital Services Act.

People are waking up to the reality of pornography’s acute harm — especially to children who have had way-too-easy access to online pornography. It’s encouraging to see that government officials are taking a stand to protect children.

Online pornography is a powerful stimulus that is disruptive to children’s development and contributes to numerous harms including vulnerability to sexual victimization, child-on-child harmful sexual behaviors, high-risk sexual behaviors, and compulsive sexual behaviors. It disrupts the natural formation of children’s sexual arousal templates.

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And despite claims to the contrary, pornography is also harmful to adults.

A recent report from the Guardian revealed that pornography website algorithms take users to more extreme material, desensitizing them and spurring their escalation to child sexual abuse material and acting out what they see on real children.

The report illustrates some of the reasons pornography is harmful.

In England and Wales, 850 men a month are arrested for online child abuse offenses. They come from every walk of life: teachers, police officers, bus drivers, doctors. Those on the front line are warning of another alarming trend: a significant shift towards younger offenders among those picked up for watching illegal material. Now, police, charities, lawyers and child protection experts are asking what is driving this tidal wave of offending and finding one common thread: the explosion over the past 10 to 20 years of free-to-view and easily accessible online pornography. Material so violent it would have been considered highly extreme a generation ago is now readily available on iPads, desktops and the phones in teenagers’ pockets. A growing body of research is beginning to warn of how problematic porn habits can be a pathway into viewing images of children being abused.

Contrast this with the pornography industry’s claims that porn isn’t harmful, and it becomes ominously apparent whose side the truth is on.

Mainstream pornography sites like Pornhub have hosted child sexual abuse material, sexual assault, rape, image-based sexual abuse, nonconsensual content, and content with violent and racist themes.

Pornography sites built their empires, in no small part, by allowing, encouraging, and profiting from the distribution of image-based sexual abuse material on their platforms, according to a new report released by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.

One woman was shocked to find out that videos of her were non-consensually uploaded to Pornhub by a former boyfriend. One of the videos had her name attached to it and garnered millions of views.

By encouraging users to upload “free” pornography, these sites get enormous traffic to their platforms that remains the basis of the industry’s profitability and incentivizes them to ignore blatant image-based sexual abuse and child sexual abuse material on their platforms.

Legislative solutions like the Take It Down Act, recently signed into law, will help those who have been victimized by the uploading of image-based sexual abuse, mandating its removal within 48 hours.

The pornography industry is on defense, as it should be. Cracks in its exploitative foundation are widening, and it’s time for the whole system of exploitation to finally crumble.

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You were built for meaning, not cheap pleasure



For most of human history, scarcity was the enemy. Territory, calories, energy, and land all had to be fought for, hoarded, and rationed. Wars were waged and innovations forged to survive deprivation. But the material hardship that once united societies in common struggle has largely faded in the affluent world.

Now we face a different enemy: artificial abundance.

The future belongs to those who reject the simulacrum and embrace reality.

In the wealthiest nations, human beings are no longer selected for resilience in the face of scarcity. They’re selected for their ability to resist the seductions of abundance — synthetic food, fake relationships, dopamine on demand. The danger isn’t hunger or want, but the numbing comfort of simulated satisfaction.

Loaded with empty calories

Once, entire civilizations rose or fell depending on their ability to produce and preserve food. Famines routinely devastated societies, and most people spent their lives just trying to eat.

Now, calories come cheap and easy. Factory farming, food science, and global logistics mean even the poorest Americans can gorge on processed junk. A trip to McDonald’s or a few bucks at Walmart buys a week’s worth of empty calories.

But artificial flavorings and chemical fillers are no substitute for real food. They simulate nourishment, but slowly poison the body. Calories are now so available that obesity, not hunger, is the largest threat to the well-being of the poor. The need has been met — and subverted.

Sex and glory, sold cheap

The same dynamic has corrupted sexual desire. Historically, sex drove men to build civilizations, conquer enemies, win wealth, and rise in status. Today, that drive is short-circuited. Men can now simulate conquest and fulfillment without risk, pain, or purpose — through pornography and video games.

Why fight for honor or love when you can get the illusion of both from a screen? Instead of greatness, many young men settle for a life of digital masturbation — and that’s how the system likes it. Young men remain trapped in a kind of eternal adolescence: satisfied just enough to avoid rebellion, addicted just enough to stay quiet.

Fake attention, real loneliness

Social media and dating apps have similarly distorted the lives of young women. Women crave connection, validation, and community — roles they once fulfilled in family, faith, and friendship.

Now they chase attention online, deluding themselves into believing that likes and comments are the same as love and loyalty. Social media simulates female community and male desire, but gives neither. Depression rises. Real-life relationships crumble. Women fear male attention in person but crave it online, where they feel in control.

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What results is a dysfunctional, hypergamous dating market. Men won’t approach. Women hold out for the fantasy of the “perfect man” who never arrives. Both sexes lose.

Lockdowns revealed the lie

COVID-19 lockdowns showed us the true danger of attempting to simulate every aspect of human experience.

During the lockdowns, social interactions from school, church, work, and even bonding with friends over a meal became impossible. School, church, work, friendship — all of it was forcibly digitized.

The results were catastrophic: soaring depression, stalled childhood development, and broken education.

But the worst part? People stayed in their digital cages even after the doors opened. Simulated connection became easier than real interaction. And easier won.

The real thing is harder — and worth it

Reality demands effort. Family, community, faith, and responsibility are hard. They hurt. They risk rejection. But they matter.

Left alone with simulated choices, most people will pick the path of least resistance. That’s why society must rethink what it rewards. Because the simulations aren’t harmless distractions — they’re traps.

The French philosopher Jean Baudrillard called this phenomenon the “simulacrum” — a copy with no original. A cheeseburger that isn’t food. AI “friends” that aren’t human and virtual “communities” that cannot possibly relieve loneliness. A porn star who looks and behaves nothing like a real woman. Online attention that ruins offline romance. Video game violence that replaces true heroism.

An evolutionary filter

We face an evolutionary bottleneck as serious as any in human history. But instead of favoring the strong, smart, or adaptable, survival now depends on who can say no.

Can you say no to simulated sex? Simulated success? Simulated community? Can you hunger for meaning, not just comfort?

Those who make it through this filter will be the ones who choose austerity over ease — who hunger for the real thing. The future belongs to those who reject the simulacrum and embrace reality.

Artificial intelligence will only make these temptations worse. But those who refuse to be pacified will also be the ones who endure.

Choose meaning. Teach your children to do the same. The future depends on it.

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