August 26, 2026 · 50:49

The number of unmarried younger men is surging.

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0:00 - 15:00. 1 Corinthians 13:11. Maturity is a reasonable biblical expectation. 15:00 - 31:00. The number of unmarried younger men is surging. 31:00 - 48:00. Meta agrees to $16.8 billion settlement in teen social media addiction case. | 1-800-326-4543 ext. 345 To donate call: 877-616-2396 Video Clip Links Darline Graham Meta Lawsuit

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0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
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0:33Good evening everyone.
0:35Welcome to the Hamilton Corner,
0:36Abraham Hamilton the third is my name.
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0:53You know, unlike government or on grocery stores
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1:00It matters to us how you all respond to our program.
1:06At this very moment, many of you,
1:07if not most of you are making your transition
1:09from your part-time jobs where you generate an income,
1:12to your full-time jobs where you cultivate an outcome.
1:15And as you do so, I want to encourage you
1:17to do so with intentionality.
1:19That is myself, my man 100 grand right across from me,
1:22Mr. Bobby, Hunter, Hunter, Hunter, Hunter,
1:25Rosa, who I mentioned earlier, got a nice dose of the half of the Hamiltonian six pack
1:31the other day.
1:33And I produce extraordinaire often imitate and never duplicated the real Jay Mac.
1:38Ladies and gentlemen, is in the screening room of rear ready to rock and roll with today's
1:43edition of the program.
1:46As I've already mentioned, most of you are transitioning from your part time jobs to your
1:49full-time jobs and I want to encourage you to do so intentionally understanding
1:54what time it is like the sons of Issacar knowing where we are and what we are to
1:59do because this is we're in a crazy time in our nation's history and it is
2:07fundamentally un-American to look to the government to solve all of our problems.
2:14It really is that that is not how we function historically getting to the
2:22place that to where when whatever transpires the first thought of many of our fellow countrymen
2:28is to see, well, what will the government do about it? That is not how we used to think
2:35in our nation and that is contrary to our national corpus. But as for you and I, we can
2:45reverse that. This is why I've been continuously encouraging you to live locally. Live locally.
2:53I was thinking about the fact today that the state of Massachusetts, you know, tell me this
3:00is coincidental, right?
3:03The same state where this woman who was a nurse strangled three of her children to death, right?
3:11And I believe the trial concluded, say, for the closing statements, the closing arguments
3:19will begin tomorrow, if I understand that properly.
3:22But that is the exact same state where the legislature just passed a bill to basically
3:28allow moms to murder their children throughout the entire gestational period.
3:33No, no thought about it.
3:34Do you think that's coincidence?
3:42And in the state of Massachusetts, its legislature is comprised of a state Senate and a state
3:47house or house representatives and their legislators that live in the community.
3:57When the scripture commands us that we are to love the Lord with all that we are, and Jesus
4:01This is a query about the greatest commandment.
4:02Love the Lord your God with all your heart,
4:04so your mind and your strength.
4:05And the second command is like it.
4:07Love your neighbor as yourselves.
4:10On these two hang the entirety of the law and the prophets.
4:18Neighbor to neighbor engagement is what we need.
4:27Do you know who your neighbors are?
4:29When was the last time you had a conversation with your neighbors?
4:32I saw Bobby, I know who his neighbors are.
4:34I saw that response Bobby.
4:39Do you know your neighbors are Bobby going?
4:41Mm.
4:42Mm.
4:42I'm going to stop.
4:45You know your neighbors running for Senator Michigan.
4:49What did you tell them?
4:50You know your neighbors are.
4:53When was the last time you had a conversation with your neighbors?
4:59Mm-hmm.
5:01What led or should I say what resulted from 12 men and became
5:10the dominant faith in the world grew for the first three centuries of the Lord's Church
5:18with people communicating neighbor to neighbor. We have to get that back.
5:26To the Word of God we go. First Corinthians chapter 13 is what we're going to go today.
5:30First Corinthians chapter 13. I want to focus on verse 11. First Corinthians chapter 13,
5:40verse 11. The Apostle Paul is speaking this is the chapter that's normally described as a love
5:48chapter because of the glowing description of love that the Lord provides for us through
5:54the Apostle Paul. But when you get to verse 11, the Apostle Paul writes, when I was a child,
6:00I thought like a child. No, I spoke like a child or I used to speak like a child.
6:05I thought like a child. I reasoned like a child. But when I became a man,
6:13I put away childish things.
6:17When I became a man, I did away with childish things.
6:22I've explained before, God has invited His children to have childlike faith,
6:31but not to be adolescent in our faith.
6:34You understand that there is an innocence and a confidence that children have
6:41and their parents and their loved ones, hence the description of faith being childlike.
6:44child like. I'll never forget when I was young I was babysitting my niece, my oldest niece and
6:51she was on a table and she was doing something and she heard my voice and immediately turned. She
6:56couldn't even walk you and started crawling to me and launched herself off the table to me knowing
7:05for a while that Uncle Abe was gonna catch her. She had no doubt that Uncle Abe was gonna catch her. She
7:09didn't consider the circumstances. She didn't consider whether Uncle Abe was ready. She didn't
7:13calculate, she didn't figure, she had absolute confidence that Uncle A was going to catch her.
7:19And in that moment the Lord impressed upon me, that is childlike faith, that unshaken unfettered
7:25confidence in the Lord. Nevertheless, the Lord requires us not to remain children. In Ephesians 4,
7:34the Lord explains the purpose of the church to equip the sites of the work of the ministry so that
7:37we will be no longer children tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine. Here the Lord says to
7:43the Apostle Paul, when I was a child, I spoke like one. My verbiage indicated my lack of maturity.
7:52Regardless of what I look like, regardless of the packaging I came with, my verbiage
7:56belied or revealed the lack of maturity. When I was a child, I thought like a child, my
8:06intellectual mechanics reflected a lack of maturity. When I was a child I
8:14reasoned like a child it's interesting that that word reasoned comes from the
8:20Greek word Logitsomai, the same word that actually in 2 Corinthians 10 when the
8:27Apostle Paul is inspired by the Spirit of God to convey the text that we as
8:31believers are to cast down vain imagination, so speculations, the same
8:37word there is, is logismos, which is related to logizomai, where we get out English, where
8:44logic from. That word logizomai here used when I reasoned like a child, it literally means
8:51to compute or to count over my thorough, diligent, reasoning capacity. When I was immature, it
9:04was childlike. But now that I'm a man, I put childish things behind me and then I want
9:11you to notice something, the word man there is the Greek word anar, which means an adult
9:15male, an adult male. The Lord didn't necessarily think that a mature male in this, mature masculinity
9:29was toxic. In fact, God presents adult mayowness as an object to pursue. Obviously, Paul is
9:40speaking, he himself being a male. But this is not the universal utilization of the word
9:45man to reflect all mankind. It's literally saying it is the literal sex specific term of adult human
9:52male. Now that I'm an adult human male, I put childish things behind me. So you put it all together,
10:00what the Lord is saying is that first and foremost that maturation is not only in available or possible
10:07expectation, it is a mandatory biblical expectation. We should expect people to progress into maturity
10:20in the Lord. Maturity has a fine point of delineation that is distinct from immaturity.
10:31I'm not saying you can't have fun. I have a blast. My wife and I laugh so much,
10:37But having fun doesn't mean that we remain immature.
10:43But we live in a society that is so arresting development, where we are trying to, as I mentioned,
10:49arrest that development, put it in a silo, and then justify adults who think like, speak like,
10:59and act like children.
11:02Maturety is something that should be, must be, embraced.
11:13Maturety is evident in one speech, hence the description here, when I was a child, I spoke like a child.
11:20There is a way that children speak and there is a way that adults
11:24should speak.
11:28Maturety should be accessible and demonstrable in the way that people think, in the way that we reason.
11:37One of the most prevalent realities, and I've experienced this, I remember
11:43at the Culture Group Conference, at the Ark Encounter, where there was a panel for the men,
11:47And one of the questions that was presented
11:51is had to do with when you felt the weight
11:53of the responsibility of being a leader of a family.
11:56And consistently the response was,
11:59man, when I realized that I was responsible
12:02for a wife and a child or children.
12:05Guys, that's not a coincidence.
12:06That's something that God has designed.
12:08God has ordained.
12:11So one of the major features for us as men
12:13as we progress into maturity is that we grow
12:18into a default position, if you will.
12:21We should grow.
12:22I'm talking about men in Christ
12:24into a default position of selflessness.
12:30You know, I'm not the only one
12:31I know a lot of men do the same thing,
12:32whatever I go into a place.
12:33I don't like to sit with my back to a door.
12:36I like to be in a position
12:37where I'm always watchful and aware
12:39of what's happening around me.
12:41It's not my daughter's responsibility
12:42for her to watch her back.
12:43That's my job.
12:44It's not my wife's response.
12:45That's my job.
12:47So this is something that I do
12:48and I train my boys to do the same thing.
12:50Fellows we sit this way.
12:51Why? Because this is the best vantage point for us to remain observant.
12:56I talked to my boys about the scripture and the book of judges when the Bible
12:59talks about the men who got down to put their face in the river to drink water
13:04versus one who put the water to their mouths in terms of their awareness as to
13:07what's going on around them.
13:10This is also one of the reasons I'm just sharing a little bit of Hamiltonia.
13:12This is one of the reasons why I play chess with my son to teach him to play
13:16chess. The whole purpose of it is not just a game, but to introduce to the
13:19concept of thinking several moves ahead that this is the current pieces
13:25better before you, but you need to consider the latter moves you have in mind before you
13:30move this individual piece.
13:34That's a part of maturity.
13:37And you can use that game to create a grid to be utilized in life.
13:47The same applies to sisters.
13:50There's a distinction between girl thoughts and woman thoughts.
13:56Girl speech and woman speech.
14:02Girl reasoning and woman reasoning.
14:07You look at those people standing outside of the courthouse in Massachusetts.
14:13Guys, something has arrived with our sisters, man.
14:16Good night.
14:17Then I'm going to show you something later in the program thanks to the Institute of Family
14:25Studies showing that young men, the numbers of unmarried young men, are surging.
14:32Guys, this is a formula for civilizational destabilization and some of this stuff unless
14:42It is addressed and a course reversal occurs.
14:46Some of that damage is irreparable.
14:52Thanks be to God, He is the source of our faith.
14:54We'll get into it in the next segment.
15:00A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker,
15:03not being alert, making unwise decisions,
15:06moving without a sense of urgency, any and all of these actions
15:10in wartime can literally cause someone to get killed.
15:14Psalm 91 is a unique weapon in scripture
15:17that addresses many of the perils in life.
15:19Using this weapon daily helps us to be prepared
15:22from many of the attacks the devil may utilize
15:25consistently against us.
15:27Our encouragement to you is to pray,
15:30Psalm 91 every single day over yourself
15:34and over your family because remember,
15:36in the dangerous, crazy world we live in,
15:38no one can protect you like the Lord,
15:40King Lord, anointed so fresh for the spirit of grace
15:42and mercy that would empower us to be warrior minded
15:45believers who are absolutely every day,
15:49praying Psalm 91 as well as putting other weapons to work
15:52fruitfully and wisely.
15:54In Jesus' name we do pray, amen.
16:05Shiting light into the darkness,
16:07this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
16:11Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton
16:14III here.
16:17So South Carolina Republicans have their nominee,
16:19their Senate nominee, following Lindsey Graham's
16:23sudden expiration.
16:29I understood the gesture from President Trump when he announced his support for Darling Graham
16:36to step in in an interim capacity because of the short duration between that interim capacity
16:44and when a special primary election would have to be in what was a special election called
16:51to fill Senator Graham's seat in a long-term manner.
16:57I didn't know much about Darlene Graham other than the fact that she was Lindsey Graham's
17:02sister.
17:03That was the little sister that the young jag attorney, that's a Judge Advocate General
17:09in the Air Force, adopted because his parents had passed away.
17:14So adopting his sister was the only way that he could ensure that his military benefits
17:19would extend to his little sister.
17:21All right, got that.
17:23Cool, was with it.
17:24All right, that's perfectly fine.
17:26But then I'm like, OK, but you got to do this thing
17:28called govern, ultimately.
17:32And I'm not necessarily saying what the president should have
17:36shouldn't have done.
17:37I mean, he wanted to support Darlene Graham.
17:40He supported her in the primary election.
17:43All right, but ultimately it's the people of South Carolina.
17:46In this instance, the Republican voters in South Carolina
17:49to have to decide who would be best to fulfill the constitutional responsibilities of a U.S.
17:54senator to fill that open seat.
17:58And I mean, did you all see the debate between Darlene Graham and Ralph Northam?
18:11Norman, I'm sorry, Virginia Northam is on my mind.
18:16Ralph Norman, thank you, Bobby, for correcting me.
18:20Ralph Norman in South Carolina.
18:22Look, I'm no fan of the swamp.
18:25Y'all know this.
18:27But what just happened is one of the things that caused this regular people to be so disenfranchised
18:33with politics, you know?
18:37During the primary where Darling Graham was facing off against Ralph Norman, Ralph Norman,
18:47and former Fox News anchor Greta Van Sustrin was one of the moderators for the debate, the
18:54The question came up concerning national security.
18:56You know, one of the things that US senators,
18:59depending on your committee assignments
19:01and ultimately when you have a vote on the floor,
19:04you're probably gonna have to weigh in on.
19:07And I'm not doing this to embarrass Darling Graham
19:11or anything guys.
19:14But her response was very, very, very,
19:20say to my sub-optimal.
19:23I'll say it that way.
19:24suboptimal and I don't want to play this guys but I have to to give you a sense of where I'm
19:33coming from. Listen to and watch clip number eight. It's about 51 seconds. This is from the
19:38primary debate before the primary election and the Republican primary for the US Senate.
19:44This is darling Graham clip eight clip eight go.
19:47National security questions well, Senator are Taiwan and the South China Sea national security
19:53issues for the United States. If so, why? I'm sorry, could you repeat the question?
20:00Are Taiwan and the South China Sea national security issues for the United States? And
20:05if so, why or how? I'm just going to be honest here. I'm not on national security. I'm not
20:12that informed on national security. So, but I do support the military. My brother was in
20:20the Air Force for 33 years. So I will do everything I can to support the military. My dad was in
20:28the Army. I'm not a polished politician up here. National security is not my thing. Not my area
20:35of expertise, but I do support the military.
20:43That was it, y'all. I appreciated her candor in saying I'm not a polished politician. But
20:53I don't think you need to be a polished politician to do a little bit of homework before debate.
20:58Maybe I'm wrong about that.
21:01I don't think I'm wrong about it though.
21:04The question wasn't like a gotcha question.
21:07It wasn't like a let me stump you question.
21:18But apparently the South Carolina voters support, there were a lot of people saying,
21:26she'll never be elected.
21:28The yokes on you, the South Carolina Republican voters elected Darlene Graham was just over
21:3753% of the primary vote to be their nominee for the US Senate where she's expected, because
21:44South Carolina is a pretty staunch red state, where she's expected to overwhelmingly defeat
21:49any Andrews.
21:56The question what didn't call for, um, give me the ins and outs and nuts and bolts of all
22:04that is Taiwanese and then ask for that.
22:10Every, everybody would have to admit that was a horrible, horrible answer.
22:13I think the only redeeming part of it was that she was honest, which, okay, that's cool,
22:18but wouldn't you want someone who was at least minimally conversant on the issue?
22:25Some.
22:26I mean, some South Carolinians would say, well, no, we rather have somebody who was at
22:29at least honest about their deficiencies
22:32and will commit themselves to learning more,
22:34will they get the job?
22:35Oh, okay, okay.
22:37All right.
22:38I have to think that is what the voters thought,
22:41that they were like, well, we appreciated her honesty
22:44and her candor, so we're going to support her.
22:47That's something different, okay.
22:49But what does that say about our populace?
22:52If that is the rationale, that okay,
22:56well, she is clearly ignorant on this issue
23:01by her own admission, but we're going to roll with her
23:07because alternative is worse, I guess.
23:10That's what they would say.
23:11I don't know.
23:12But these are kind of things from my standpoint
23:14that causes great disenfranchisement.
23:17I think President Trump endorsed her
23:20and she's expected to be a reliable supporter
23:22of the Trump agenda.
23:24I can see that happening.
23:27I think that may be what other voters voted for
23:31because Ralph Norman was known to get crossways
23:35with President Trump and with some issues, you know?
23:39But I just, man, it makes me greatly concerned
23:43for the state of affairs in our country.
23:46I mean, that answer was not encouraging,
23:52not encouraging at all.
23:55I'm sure because, and let me just run through this,
24:01because one person said,
24:02Oh yeah, her handlers didn't prepare her well.
24:03I'm like, I'm not too sure about that.
24:06First, she is Lindsey Graham's sister, right?
24:10Is there any doubt that the Lindsey Graham machine,
24:13if you will, would have been supporting her?
24:15She received the endorsement of President Trump.
24:17She received the endorsement of South Carolina
24:21Governor McMaster's.
24:23She received endorsement of Senator Tim Scott.
24:27She received the endorsement of Representative
24:33Russell Fry of South Carolina, you know, I don't think people didn't prepare for it.
24:46Maybe in, and again, I do appreciate it.
24:48Honestly, it takes a lot of humility.
24:50It does to stand up there and say, listen, I don't know the answer to that one, you know,
24:56but I would like somebody that's been in the competent on the issues that very well will
25:06be in the jurisdiction of the Senate to take that seat in the Senate is what I'm saying.
25:10So my point in raising this guys is that these are the kinds of things that make people very,
25:19very disconcerted.
25:20There's some who are saying, well, yeah, well she'll do well.
25:23She'll be a reliable Republican vote and then she'll gain her knowledge while she's
25:30in office.
25:31All right.
25:33All right.
25:36All right.
25:38Some say maybe she's watching this show, maybe.
25:40You know?
25:41I'm sure AOC knew everything about the house before she got elected, right?
25:48I'm sure AOC knows everything about the house now.
25:51I don't think so.
25:56And it, you know, a lot of people complain about the swamp, rightfully.
26:00So, but the swamp can only stay as swampy as the American pop.
26:07This allows, you know, and then the other thing is that the swamp can only stay as swampy as the American pop.
26:15the populace allows, you know?
26:19And this is why the corruption of our media
26:21is so egregious because the media enjoys
26:26first amendment protections and with our public trust,
26:30they are supposed to be a vehicle
26:32by which we hold elected officials accountable.
26:34That we keep up with what's going on,
26:35what they're doing and we learn what's happening.
26:38But largely, our populace has drifted into a place
26:42to where we don't really know what the Constitution says.
26:44I can't tell you how many times
26:46to tell people and just in regular conversation that you know separation of church and state
26:50is not in the Constitution.
26:53And like it was our Constitution was never intended to be the sole province of people
26:57who fancy themselves as constitutional scholars.
27:00That is our everyday citizens heritage.
27:05And I don't think we understand that.
27:08I don't think we understand that.
27:09I am greatly concerned that having this approach, how many times have we seen people who we believed
27:16These were competent and had good motives to go to Washington only to see them turned by
27:23the swamp in this of the swamp.
27:28I don't like these kinds of things and I don't care which party it comes from.
27:36You shouldn't be able to be anointed by the DC Politburo and then you just, hey, well, we
27:47just rolled.
27:48This is the seat that we're going to have and we're going to keep.
27:53I was discouraged by that greatly.
27:56I'm not perpetually discouraged, but when I saw that I was like, what?
28:00And then I saw the primary vote results like, what?
28:04This, this, this is wild.
28:06Well, that wasn't encouraging enough for you.
28:13We have this phenomenon, and I mentioned a little bit of this in the first segment.
28:18We have the data we shared before, how values for young American men and young American women
28:26are beginning to skew in significant ways. Young American men are moving at least politically
28:34to a more conservative disposition. Well, young American women are going in a different direction.
28:39You have the people showing up in Massachusetts outside of the courthouse. And yet we have
28:50this new data that's released by the Institute for Family Studies. If you would, Jeff, would
28:55you put the chart on the screen for the people who are watching the show?
29:01When I'm talking about the Institute for Family Studies, just published new data based on the
29:05study of information compiled as of the end of 2025, December 2025, that tracked the last
29:1325 years of data concerning the percentage of, not just the percentage, the quantity of young
29:20men between the ages of 20 to 39 years old who were married. The number of unmarried 20
29:30to 39 year olds has increased by 47 percent within the previous 25 years. From 20.7 million
29:39to 30.4 million unmarried men ages 20 to 39. The number of married men ages 20 to 39 decreased
29:52by 15% dropping from 18.1 million down to 15.4 million. So now what you see is a gap in the same age
30:05category to where of a ratio of nearly two, not nearly exactly two to one. If you meet a man who
30:14who is between the ages of 20 and 39 years old,
30:19he is twice as likely to be unmarried today
30:23versus a married man in that same age category.
30:30This is something that is greatly concerning
30:32because the foundation of any stable society
30:37includes the forming of families.
30:39I mentioned just a few minutes ago,
30:40one of the primary things that God created
30:42to move men into maturity,
30:46If you live out, then when I was a child, I thought I was a child, but now when I was
30:51a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned like a child.
30:56But now that I'm a man, I've put childish things behind me.
30:59One of the foremost things that age in that process is family formation.
31:07In some instances, you have some men who are voluntarily delaying marriage in many instances,
31:14and I've experienced this in an anecdotal sense.
31:17I haven't conducted any studies personally,
31:19but in many instances, what is happening
31:22in more consistent instances today
31:26than has been in recent history is that young men
31:30are saying, and let me be more specific,
31:33young Christian men who have conservative values
31:39are saying that they are having a hard time
31:42finding marriageable women.
31:45Mm-hmm.
31:49And this seems to be consistent with the data that continues to come out.
31:54You have more data points of becoming publicized.
31:59Even amongst young men and women who voted for President Trump in 2024, the values that
32:06they adhere to work greatly.
32:11Divergent, greatly divergent.
32:16What's going on in our society?
32:21What's happened with all of the toxic masculinity?
32:26Nobody is talking about what's happening to our young ladies, man.
32:29What's going on?
32:34And I think one of the major things that is not discussed enough is Titus 2.
32:41Where the Lord gives us clarity as to the role that older men are to play in the lives
32:47of younger men and the role that older women are to play in the lives of younger women.
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34:06It was almost one year ago that 31-year-old Christian and conservative leader, Charlie Kirk,
34:12walked into an outdoor amphitheater at Utah Valley University
34:16to hold a question and answer event with thousands of college students.
34:20Minus later, a young man named Tyler Robinson fatally shot Charlie from a rooftop sniper position.
34:26Robinson was a leftist, romantically involved with a gender-confused man.
34:30He couldn't handle the truth, Charlie propounded.
34:33Jesus said to his father, your word is truth.
34:36This is what the war on reality is about.
34:39Here in most recent program with Frank Turic,
34:42mentor to Charlie Kirk, an author of The War on Reality,
34:46at TheChristianWorldView.org,
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35:11Back to the Hamilton Quarter on American Family Radio.
35:16Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton III here.
35:19You know, one of the things that some have seen within the kind of, not kind of the effort
35:26to function within our current climate, there's some people who have kind of abandoned within
35:35the church context, abandoned the necessary communication of God's view of marriage and
35:42the role it should play, the goodness in pursuing marriage.
35:46Like I explained to people that marriage is good because God made it good.
35:50Who was the one that said it was not good for Adam to be alone?
35:53That was God's conclusion.
35:54Adam didn't make that conclusion.
35:56That was God's observation in his pronouncement, you know?
35:59And because some have said, well, you know, marriage is not the only context that people
36:05can serve God in faith, they shouldn't be the only thing you pursue.
36:08And I agree with that.
36:09The Lord calls some to the vocation of singleness.
36:12And as I've said before, the vocation of singleness is not something you conclude as a result of
36:16having some bad relationship history, all right?
36:19And the vocation of singleness is accompanied by the gift of celibacy, which is a gift
36:25that God gives. When you consider that the first command given to mankind is to be fruitful
36:30and multiply, the experience that most people will have and that God has made them for is
36:38for marriage. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. We should, as the Lord's people,
36:44be able to communicate the truths of God's word concerning marriage while simultaneously
36:48affirming the fact that there is a vocation of synchronous and that for those who are not
36:54married that you shouldn't be just sitting waiting around twiddling your thumbs, you need to
36:57be about your father's business in the life stage that you're in currently.
37:01You don't have to denigrate one to exalt another or exalt one and denigrate.
37:04You don't have to do that.
37:06But in some places practically that's what's, that's what, that's what, that is what has
37:10happened.
37:12But what I'm concerned about something that is happening, that is becoming more and more
37:18difficult for people who are committed to the Lord, and in particular for young men to find
37:33godly, young women to marry.
37:35Godly women.
37:36I won't just say young women, but godly women to marry.
37:39And there are strong forces in our culture that work against the formation of sound families.
37:51I wanted you to be aware of this data, all right, this data point, and to encourage consideration.
38:01And so what can be done?
38:04I'll never forget, you know, I was teaching the Bible study back when I was living in New
38:10Orleans on a Friday night.
38:11It's crazy.
38:12And when we first started the Bible study, man, it was just my wife, myself, and one other
38:18person.
38:19And the man that Bible study grew by God's grace.
38:21And the way that it grew was the way the Lord built it is that it grew with largely young
38:30men, twenty-something-year-old young men, predominantly, were the people who attended
38:35the Bible study.
38:36I would say the ratio grew three to one.
38:39It became a pretty large Bible study.
38:43And I'll never forget several of the young brothers got married as a result of that.
38:48We did a significant, we did a consistent amount of teaching about biblical manhood and things
38:53of that nature.
38:54And it was a lot of young men who were coming and some of them came from backgrounds where
38:59they didn't necessarily grow up in the most ideal, familiar environments.
39:03And so they found it to be pretty workable.
39:08I would suggest, I would suggest in order to find people that are serious about the Lord.
39:13You know, y'all know I'm going to say the world is going to world.
39:16I would suggest true biblical teaching as a rallying point for godly people to be drawn.
39:30And obviously this is anecdotal, but glory to god, some of the young brothers that found
39:40their wives there are still pushing, pressing strong to this day.
39:46I think people assume because sometimes in a context especially when they're younger people
39:51that they need kind of a diluted version of the truth.
39:54That that's not true at all, man.
39:55Give the truth.
39:56Give the full counsel of God's word.
39:59The Lord said, if I be exalted, I would draw
40:01all men into myself and you'll have a unique accumulation
40:08of people who they're hunger for the truth of God's word
40:11as would have drawn them to that location.
40:13And then having that foundation becomes a foundation
40:16for any relationships that should develop.
40:19You know?
40:20So I had a friend who had some young ladies
40:24that word in the church where he was serving.
40:27He called me one day, I said, man, we got some
40:29guy, the young brothers who come to this Bible study.
40:31We not trying to play matchmaker, anything like that.
40:33Won't you invite some of the sisters from your church
40:35to Bible study?
40:37And he did it.
40:39They came and they kept coming.
40:41You know, the next thing you know, has a load with habit.
40:45Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun.
40:47So anyway, that data should be concerning,
40:51but it's not as if we don't have an answer.
40:53It's not as if we don't have an answer.
40:56Moving on to this next story.
40:58And this is another one is concerning to me for a couple reasons.
41:02I'll now get into it in a little bit.
41:03But Facebook was being sued.
41:06They were in a trial in California, a federal trial.
41:11They were sued.
41:11It started with a plaintiff who was now in her 20s.
41:15But for some reason, this young lady's mother allowed her,
41:18this young lady's parents allowed her to start fiddling
41:21around with a social meeting when she was six years old.
41:24Six years old.
41:25And she says she became addicted to social media.
41:31The book of faces and Instagram and whatnot.
41:35And so as a trial was going on, she was a plaintiff,
41:39as well as the attorney's generals from multiple states
41:42all around the country, 29 different states.
41:44And as the trial is underway, Facebook enters a settlement
41:50that ends the current trial that is going on
41:53that also is promulgated to prohibit other trials that are pending
41:59other litigation that is pending around the country
42:02and which Facebook agrees to pay $16.8 billion in settlement.
42:07But one of the things that is not being widely reported,
42:09Facebook's agreement to pay the settlement
42:12is over a 10 year period.
42:14So they didn't have to dip into the pockets at one time.
42:18But over the next 10 years,
42:20they're agreeing to pay $16.8 billion
42:22as well as to implement several other changes
42:27to their products.
42:29Listen to a brief report on that.
42:33It's clip number nine.
42:34Listen to it watch clip number nine, clip nine.
42:36Go.
42:37Metta has agreed to settle in a child harm lawsuit.
42:40This is coming in from Reuters
42:42as we're learning Metta platforms has agreed to pay
42:44a maximum 16.68 billion dollars as part of a settlement
42:49to resolve claims brought by states across the country
42:52that the company designed Facebook and Instagram
42:54to addict children, misled consumers about their safety
42:58and improperly collected personal data
43:00of children who used its platforms.
43:01This is all according to court papers and Reuters.
43:05Now the settlement was reached
43:06during a California federal trial
43:08over claims brought by 29 states,
43:11averting one of the highest profile tests yet of allegations
43:14that social media companies harmed young users.
43:17Meta also agreed to make changes for teenage users
43:20Facebook and Instagram nationwide, including daily usage limits and nighttime blocks.
43:26That's also according to this information that we are just getting in here.
43:33You want to see what can become a bipartisan pursuit because you had attorneys generals
43:36from Red States and Blue States all around the country.
43:39Remember old Jay Jones of Virginia who wanted to see Republican legislators, children to
43:46die and to desecrate their graves and all of that.
43:49He was one of the attorneys generals and some of the examples of the states that expect to
43:54get money from this settlement include New Jersey.
43:58New Jersey expects to get $1.5 billion over 10 years.
44:02No, I'm sorry.
44:04Yeah, New Jersey expects to get $525 million over the next 10 years.
44:09California expects to get $1.5 billion over the next 10 years.
44:13Massachusetts says it's in line for $366 million over the next 10 years.
44:18Virginia to get 353 million over the next 10 years, you know.
44:23State of Tennessee was involved in the beliefs, and the Marsha Blackburn was involved in this.
44:28You have lots of people all across the state.
44:30Some of the adjustments that meta has agreed to implement because one of the allegations
44:36were that meta knew they were doing things that was that intentionally made their products
44:44addictive for minors and teenagers.
44:48When they had that data, they tried to hide that data and to lie about it, these are some
44:52of the allegations that were made.
44:54So some of the changes in addition to paying out the money that Meta has agreed to make
44:59is that they will include, they will now begin to include productive pauses for children.
45:06This includes mandatory pauses after 15 minutes of continuous use and then another pause after
45:12at the 60-minute mark, then another pause at the 90-minute mark to interrupt endless scrolling.
45:20Met has also agreed to implement nighttime blocks which will restrict children's access
45:24from midnight to 6 a.m. Met has also agreed to limit school time access for children, eliminating
45:31push notifications on weekdays between 8 and 3 p.m. during the school year. Met has also
45:37agreed to implement robust age assurance measures to more effectively verify the age of young users,
45:44which, okay, I have something to say about that in the moment. But let me get through these other
45:49adjustments that they're planning to make. Met has agreed to implement safer age appropriate content
45:54controls, including stronger safeguards against bullying, against contact content promoting eating
46:00disorders and content related to suicide and self harm. Met has agreed to implement stronger,
46:05more user friendly parental controls, as well as limits on social comparison features, including
46:11beauty filters, and visible like counts for children's accounts that have been linked
46:17to poor mental health outcomes in children and teens.
46:21And they have agreed to implement both the implementation and the effectiveness of these
46:25features will be regularly assessed by an independent auditor and the settling states.
46:31Okay?
46:33Here's my question.
46:34Here's one of the questions that I have.
46:36verification. What if a child gets a device that's their parents account on
46:43these devices? What if the child somehow figured out a way to reset the age setting?
46:51Because the only way these accounts will know the age of the user is if the user
46:54puts that information in themselves. So I'll ask you my brother James, what is it
47:00gonna take to make sure that the user is putting in the proper information? Was
47:03gonna have to be involved in that? For a child, the parents! That's exactly right!
47:08Like the parents.
47:12Here, look, I agree that medicine do things.
47:16If it is aware that there are things that are features in their products as hindering
47:19the children, they should voluntarily address it.
47:23I agree with them.
47:24No problem with that.
47:25However, you know what I do have a problem with?
47:28A big problem with?
47:31A parent who allows their daughter to get on social media at six years old and then say,
47:36oh my gosh, I can't believe it.
47:37My child is addicted to social media.
47:41I am gravely concerned that this will just be another opportunity for people to absolve
47:47themselves of personal responsibility because medic can make all the changes in the world
47:53that they want to make.
47:54But if you don't have parents diligently enforcing these changes with their own children at home,
48:01it ain't going to make a hill of beans of difference.
48:04And that's the problem that I have.
48:06When do you ever see attorneys generals across the political aisle divide all come together
48:13to rally around something?
48:14Oh, because there's trouble in the water.
48:17We got some coins we can get access to.
48:20We have a scapegoat, if you will, because we have people that are having problems that
48:26are having problems, but it's far easier to say, is Mark Zuckerberg's fault?
48:32Now don't miss get you what I'm saying.
48:34If you're aware of things that are happening with your product, you need to fix it?
48:36Yes, you need to fix it.
48:38And you shouldn't be compelled by lawsuit to fix it.
48:42But I want you to understand what people,
48:44the reporting is going $17 billion settlement
48:48by meta $17 billion settlement.
48:50They don't tell you it's $17 billion
48:52over the next 10 years, don't tell you that part.
48:54They also don't give you any context
48:55to know that that's $17 billion
48:57ain't nothing but a drop in the water.
48:59You know why?
48:59You wanna know what meta's revenue was for 2025?
49:04$201 billion for that one year.
49:06Just one year?
49:08I think that good for 17 billion.
49:09You know what I'm saying?
49:10I think 17 billion ain't gonna hurt at all.
49:12It ain't gonna even be a scratch on a paint job.
49:13You know what I mean?
49:15And I'm sharing this with you to give you an idea
49:17that while these numbers seem huge,
49:19you and I would say are huge numbers.
49:23I'm just greatly concerned that you have
49:25plaintiffs attorneys that align in their pockets
49:28and using the horrible tragic stories of people
49:32and families and children and parents.
49:35And when the rubber meets the road,
49:36guess who's gonna be necessary to make all of these changes
49:39be effective, the same thing was necessary to keep the six-year-old from getting addicted
49:42to social media in the first place.
49:45Parents.
49:47What good is the age verification features if parents aren't making sure that the age
49:52information is entered properly?
49:55What good is it?
49:56It's not any good!
50:00Guess who should have been already implementing the productive pauses?
50:04You shouldn't need meta to say, hey, you've been on the device for 15 minutes straight,
50:07non-stop.
50:08You've been on the device for two hours non-stop.
50:10Guess who the productive pause that came from?
50:12The
50:40views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
50:45Family Association or American Family Radio.

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