Mark Regnerus

Parents of Young Adults Should Be Supportive of 20something Marriage Too many parents of today's young adults "hold that your 20s are for getting your career launched, “figuring out who you are,” and having fun. Enough of the navel-gazing identity quests. Not only is fun overrated, fun is far more likely to materialize when you’re with friends and family, not when you’re alone, online, at work, meeting up with strangers, stressed by overwork, or on a packed airplane for the next seven hours. “Fun” like that is overrated. How have we been so misled for so long?" @RegnerusMark ifstudies.org/blog/twenty-so…

@JLLiedl Well done!

The day before he began service as Chiclayo's bishop, Pope Leo XIV spent the night in prayer. Not in the city's main cathedral. Instead, he visited the dusty, half-forgotten town of Zaña to keep vigil w/a special Peruvian saint...whose feast day is today. My report from Peru 🇵🇪

@LeahLibresco ...and it demonstrated how culture matters here. I see so little policy effects. Nice ideas, helpful proposals, generous moves--but they seldom issue in notable human increase.

@LeahLibresco It was a remarkable move and clearly mattered in a domain in which causal effects (and hence, good ameliorative ideas) are hard to come by.

BOY is his memory for a blessing.

"El matrimonio no es una trampa. Los bebés no son una carga. La maternidad es un regalo." 👏

@DavQuinn Agreed. It is deeply lamentable. The WH owes an apology.

Appalling. Truly appalling.

@KDaniels8 @CardinalBCupich His Eminence is right. Not only is war lamentable, but for the White House to characterize it in this manner publicly is degrading to all sides. This world is losing its way.

"The moral crisis we are facing is not just a matter of the war itself, but also how we, the observers, view violence, for war now has become a spectator sport or strategy game" @CardinalBCupich archchicago.org/en/statement/-…

All of us who have lived in Texas know that what this Sartrean sage says is TRUE. And there is NO EXIT, because the state highway department has closed all exits for construction.

@roddreher Hilarious, and yet accurate.

Ezra Klein: "Having AI summarize a book or paper for me is a disaster. It has no idea what I really wanted to know and wouldn't have made the connections I would've made. I'm interested in the thing I will see that other people wouldn't have seen, and I think AI typically sees what everybody else would see. I'm not saying that AI can't be useful, but I'm pretty against shortcuts. And obviously, you have to limit the amount of work you're doing. You can't read literally everything. But in some ways, I think it's more dangerous to think you've read something that you haven't than to not read it at all. I think the time you spend with things is pretty important." @ezraklein

@IEAmbPoland My friends know better now than to pick me up at the station. Dropped off there? Piece of cake. Big difference!

Odblokowano nową umiejętność: Mieszkam w Warszawie tak długo, że teraz potrafię trafić właściwym wyjściem z tuneli Warszawa Centralna. (No, przynajmniej w 9 przypadkach na 10) 😅

Given that we want such children to enjoy the company of a married mother and father going forward, then talk of teen births is out, because men don't tend to make good fathers until they have a bit more maturity, and the robust tendency today is for women to marry someone 1.5 to 2 years older than they are. So, I'm with the pack that says 23-28 is probably peak marrying (and, following that, childrearing) time for men, and certainly for women. Again, of course it can be later than that, but unless the marriage breaks up, we seldom find fault with earlier. Why? Because your own child is an amazing miracle for which you would give your life, and you can't really know it until it happens. As a 55-year-old married for 32 years, with two grandkids and one on the way, I am so glad that I'm not first experiencing this at 65 or 70. But we can't make choices for others; we can only suggest things to consider.

I would really love for this crowd to explain when they think women should have babies. We warn against teen pregnancy. We tell women to spend their 20s self-actualizing. We push career building through the 30s. By 40, we call it “high-risk.” So when, exactly?

@DennyBurk Wow.

There was a time when destroying the healthy reproductive organs of minor children was considered by everyone to be macabre and farcical. This is from SNL in the 80’s. It’s incredible given what our culture has devolved to today. I couldn’t laugh at this.

@ulrichlehner Oy.

An unexpected sober and intereting read about masonic influences on Pope Francis herder.de/communio/theol…

@ryanburge A poor survey question--is "double-barreled." There are two statements there.

People with graduate degrees are twice as likely to agree with this statement compared to those with high school diplomas: "Humans have evolved over time due to processes such as natural selection; God or a higher power had no role in this process."

One more extension of the book: "The thesis of cheaper sex in the era of wider contraceptive access assumes nothing in particular about a high average number of lifetime partners among men. It asserts, rather, that cheaper sex should lead to more sexual relationships overall, more one-night stands and “friends with benefits” relationships, and especially to the more rapid addition of sex within romantic relationships, to say nothing of making greater use of pornography and masturbation. Cheap sex is all of that. The fact that John has had 17 sexual partners by the time he turns 25, but Fred has only had two, does not mean sex is “expensive” for Fred, extracting more from him than from John. It could be true, of course, but it may also be that Fred has simply not pursued more sexual relationships, and yet the two he reports became sexual quickly--within days. That, too, signals the ease of access to cheaper sex."

For the Wall Street Journal, I wrote about chads and incels: "20% of men between ages 25 and 50 account for about 70% of reported sexual partnerships with women." wsj.com/opinion/free-e… @WSJopinion @WSJFreeEx

A bit more from Cheap Sex, with which I'm quite familiar (the book, that is.) "Is the smart cut-off at 20 percent? No. That is just the Pareto Principle’s benchmark applied to the study of sexual partnering. When I trim the 20 to 10 percent, more interesting information is yielded. The most prolific 10 percent of men report 52 percent of all opposite-sex relationships, while the same share among women report 48 percent of the total male-female coupling reported in the data.... It is a sensible move, revealing that this “second” 10 percent sleeps with far fewer partners than the Top-10 percent."

A beautiful #AshWednesday story from Msgr. James Shea: "A couple of years ago, I was on a flight on Ash Wednesday, and the stewardess came back to me and knelt down in the aisle where I was sitting, and she began to cry. She said, 'I wasn't able to go to mass today on Ash Wednesday because I'm working morning till night, Father. Would you happen to have any ashes?' I couldn't believe it. I had a little vial of ashes in the overhead compartment up on top, and I'm not like Father Boy Scout, I'm not usually prepared in that way, but I had some ashes, and so I said yes, I do, and I took them down, and I imposed ashes upon her while she knelt there. By the end of the flight, the two other stewardesses, one of the pilots, and more than half of the plane had followed her and had knelt down in the aisle to receive ashes. This is the hope with which we live, and it's latent in people, it only needs to be activated by our witness." #ashwednesday #catholic