The Gift of Singleness: To You with Best Wishes from Our Culture! (But you don't have to accept it!)

Captain Sensible writes: “There will soon be more single people than married ones in Britain.”
That’s according to a report in The Sunday Times newspaper, based on a study by Alliance and Leicester Mortgages. The report goes on to say that the number of single households is set to rise by 53% over the next 20 years to 9.9 million.
Stephen Leonard, director of mortgages at Alliance & Leicester, is quoted as putting this down to social trends: "Social trends influence the way we live. We are currently witnessing a change in society that is set to continue well into the future."
What's that? "Social trends", he says?
So it appears that this “gift of singleness” that we have been led to believe is from God, is actually not from God at all. It’s from our culture and it reflects social trends.
Folks, this is great news!
It means we can all give it back to our culture in 2007!
What's more, we can then start a new, more positive "social trend" for our culture to emulate -- rather than the current situation which we have entirely backwards!