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Article in the Catholic Register:

Peter Copeland, the deputy director for domestic policy at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute think tank, told The Catholic Register Canada’s TFR indicates the effects of the 1960s’ sexual revolution continue to reverberate.

‘It decoupled sex from marriage, commitment and childbearing,’ said Copeland.

‘The default kind of worldview in our society is (now) liberal individualism. In the relationship domain this means short-term relationships and cohabitation, which is not conducive to marriage. It really just signals to your partner that this is conditional and (we’re) kind of testing things out, which is not what builds trust and commitment and deeper forms of love, which is what marriage and family life is all about.”