From the 2014 Humanum:
"[M]arriage and the family are in crisis. ... more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment. This revolution in manners and morals has often flown the flag of freedom, but in fact it has brought spiritual and material devastation to countless human beings, especially the poorest and most vulnerable.
"Evidence is mounting that the decline of the marriage culture is associated with increased poverty and a host of other social ills, disproportionately affecting women, children and the elderly. It is always they who suffer the most in this crisis.
"The crisis in the family has produced an ecological crisis, for social environments, like natural environments, need protection. And although the human race has come to understand the need to address conditions that menace our natural environments, we have been slower to recognize that our fragile social environments are under threat as well... It is therefore essential that we foster a new human ecology... [that recognizes] family [as] the foundation of co-existence and a remedy against social fragmentation... that [encourages] our youth [to] not give themselves over to the poisonous environment."
"[M]arriage and the family are in crisis. ... more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment. This revolution in manners and morals has often flown the flag of freedom, but in fact it has brought spiritual and material devastation to countless human beings, especially the poorest and most vulnerable.
"Evidence is mounting that the decline of the marriage culture is associated with increased poverty and a host of other social ills, disproportionately affecting women, children and the elderly. It is always they who suffer the most in this crisis.
"The crisis in the family has produced an ecological crisis, for social environments, like natural environments, need protection. And although the human race has come to understand the need to address conditions that menace our natural environments, we have been slower to recognize that our fragile social environments are under threat as well... It is therefore essential that we foster a new human ecology... [that recognizes] family [as] the foundation of co-existence and a remedy against social fragmentation... that [encourages] our youth [to] not give themselves over to the poisonous environment."
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