Why the left doesn’t want to face the facts about marriage?

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The New York Post reported the following:

Why the left doesn’t want to face the facts about marriage

The decline of marriage drives many of our worst social problems, but the left is silent and the right not much better — because it’s not something politics or government can fix.

Comprehensive new research from the Institute for Family Studies charts the disaster geographically, outlining marriage “deserts” where nuclear families are rare and “gardens” where they flourish.

The “driest” zones, with the lowest share of householders 15-64 who are married, are urban areas — high-poverty ones (such as the South Bronx and nearby parts of Manhattan) but also spots dominated by younger people with good prospects (Lower Manhattan into Brooklyn).

The “gardens” are typically suburbs — and not just because that’s where folks move to when they want to raise families: The study also shows people as more likely to get married in the ’burbs

And it’s striking that the worst deserts (with the “best” of them hitting just 17% married) are in Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit and DC — all governed for decades by Democrats.

The left hates to acknowledge it, but low marriage rates — meaning, fewer kids raised by both biological (hitched) parents — bring higher rates of poverty, crime, addiction and general misery, along with far less educational success and shorter lifespans. …

Progressives have staked out a strongly anti-marriage/anti-family position for decades, with younger ones today now proudly critical of getting married and having kids. https://nypost.com/2026/10/18/opinion/why-the-left-doesnt-want-to-face-the-facts-about-marriage/

Let me note that the reason the title of this post ends in a question mark is because the New York Post article missed the core reason many on “the left” are not supportive of the biblical concepts of marriage.

Which is?

Many on the left despise the Bible.

Problems are a consequence of that.

The prophet Isaiah wrote:

9 That this is a rebellious people,
Lying children,
Children who will not hear the law of the Lord;
10 Who say to the seers, “Do not see,”
And to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things;
Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.
11 Get out of the way,
Turn aside from the path,
Cause the Holy One of Israel
To cease from before us.”

12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel:

“Because you despise this word,
And trust in oppression and perversity,
And rely on them,
13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you
Like a breach ready to fall,
A bulge in a high wall,
Whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.
14 And He shall break it like the breaking of the potter’s vessel,
Which is broken in pieces;
He shall not spare.
So there shall not be found among its fragments
A shard to take fire from the hearth,
Or to take water from the cistern.” (Isaiah 30:9-14)

As reported here before, aspects of feminism (see ‘Feminism’ does not result in happiness, ‘Liberal women’ are unhappy, and American women continue to be less happy as we get close to the UN’s International Day of Happiness for 2026: There are keys to happiness!) and liberal parenting (cf. ‘Teens more likely to be mentally healthy if they have conservative parents, study says’) decrease happiness. And STAYING married helps with happiness (see Happiness study points to biblical principles–how to be happier).

Furthermore, a recent study found that young adults who were married and who were religious were happier than those who were unmarried and not religious (see Young adults less happy unless married and religious).

Related to that study, as well as several scriptures, we put out  the following related video: