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The disastrous decade of dating : Comments
By Bettina Arndt, published 30/10/2026Fifty years ago, we told young women to put marriage on hold but never stopped to ask what that would do to their chances of finding love, marriage, kids – the whole shebang.
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There is an irony worth considering as Islam makes its insidious advances into our Western societies.
Some women may find security and belonging in conservative religious communities precisely because secular society has failed to provide them with a satisfying alternative.
That should prompt some serious self-examination.
A Christian society cannot expect to retain its moral inheritance indefinitely, if it no longer considers that inheritance worth living by, and there alone is the crux of the matter.