Katy Faust
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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So a lot of, I think that a lot of the infertility crisis that we're seeing is actually just a marriage formation crisis. And because people are starting too late, And so, you know, I tell young women when I speak to them, you really can have it all. I mean, I have the most blessed, incredible, rich life.
I mean, I have an incredible career where I'm doing what I feel called to do, even though obviously there's a cost and it's uncomfortable and all of that. But I also have four incredible kids who are 21, 19, 17 and 15. And I tell women, you can have it all, but you can't have it all at once. And you better have marriage and kids first. Do that first. Now, sometimes you don't get to choose.
I know a lot of wonderful women that are those 30-year-old women who don't have kids yet, who desperately want to and wish that they were married and wanted to be married when they were 22. But I also know women who could have been married when they were 22 or 25 or 27 or 35 and put it off because the world was telling them, you have plenty of time.
Or actually, real equality means getting your master's degree or making partner at the law firm. And then you discover woefully too late. that you were lied to, and now you have a life of emptiness and solitude ahead. And it is incredibly dark. And some of those women, I pray, find fellowship, community, and family in a body of believers at church.
But you are shortchanging women, especially the ones that long for it, of something that really will make them, bring them alive and bring them forward. long-term joy, protection, investment, connection in a way that somebody that you're paying to care for you is never going to be able to provide. Ultimately, like all of the different questions, you talked about MADE.
We're talking about the population crisis. We're talking about all of these reproductive technologies and these different forms of family. Ultimately, they all have the same source. It's the same question. It all comes down to the same thing. And the question is, what does it mean to be human? Right? What does it mean to be human?
And honestly, like a word for the Christians out there, you are the ones with the right answer to this. I mean, the humanists did not get it right. The postmodernists did not get it right. The evolutionists don't get it right.
You, the ones that understand the Imago Dei, you, the one that understands who gives and who takes life, you who understands that we are made in the image of God, male and female. He created them. You who understand that Job, Isaiah, and Jeremiah were all set apart in the womb. You who understand that Christ came incarnate as a child, as an infant, and said, let the little children come to me.
And if you want to attain the kingdom of heaven, you have to become like one of these. You who understand that God has devised serious corporal punishment if you cause one of these little ones to stumble. You are the ones, Christians, who have the right answer to what it means to be human.
And the world is desperate for us to take that truth into all these conversations about marriage, family formation, death with dignity, abortion, IVF, reproductive technologies, surrogacy, marriage, transgenderism.
Every single thing, every hot button topic, everything that gets you canceled on Facebook and everything that gets you banned from Thanksgiving dinner ultimately comes down to what does it mean to be human? And that is a life-saving answer. That is a child protective answer. It's a civilizational defending answer.
So you need to increase your knowledge and then increase your voice in the public sphere. It probably is the thing that is going to save the nation.
Yeah, I've got a couple of those in my house. Well, passing through my house. I've got a 19-year-old and a 21-year-old daughter. And, you know, what we tell them is, especially during the teen years, your job is friendship. Like, I think we have a marriage crisis in this country because we have a dating crisis. And we have a dating crisis because we have a friendship crisis.
It is very hard for young people these days to have to form and maintain healthy peer relationships. obviously because the digital space has taken over a lot of their peer-to-peer communications. And so you really do have to train your kids to maximize and develop their same-sex friendships during the teen years. A lot of that is gonna be modeling.
Are you modeling good same-sex friendships in terms of vulnerability, but good boundaries where you need it with different people? Are you showing them the transparency, how you need one another, how you rejoice when they rejoice and mourn when they mourn? I mean, you become what you behold, okay, for better or worse. And so model great friendships, obviously. I am of the persuasion.
I am not one of the kind of kissed dating goodbye Christians, courtship only. I actually do think that... There is a role for dating in high school and college because I do think that you need to appropriately practice interacting with the opposite sex. So I've told my daughters, you know, when they're juniors and seniors, that if a boy has the guts to say, do you want to go out and get coffee?
You should say, yeah, I'd love to. You need to reward him for having the courage to ask you in person to do that. You don't have to say yes, and of course, you never need to do it if you feel creeped out or anything like that. But there is a, you know, you talk about men being civilized, and I would say... The proper understanding of that is that women civilize the men.
It is women that have the civilizing effect on men. And, you know, the example I always use is when I see when I'm walking down the street in Seattle and I see three men coming towards me on the sidewalk, I don't care how big they are, what race they are. I will cross to the other side of the street. I'm not going to walk past them.
But if I see those three men walking hand in hand with their girlfriend or wives, I'm not going to cross the street. OK, there's just something in me that knows that male behavior has changed because they are now united and they've bonded themselves to a woman in some way. OK, so I tell my girls, you have an incredible power on men to elevate their behavior.
behavior, their choices, their decisions by how we respond to them, okay? It is the soft power that shapes the world, right? That's what women really are, the soft power that shapes the world, not the dominant naggy power, the soft, beautiful alluring power that changes the world. So I do think that there's a role of dating.
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