Janet Erickson
BYU Associate Professor of Religious Education researching maternal and child well-being, family policy, and the roles of mothers and fathers; columnist for Deseret News
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Jul 21, 2026
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Yeah, it's painful, right? Because I'll just say from the perspective of a woman, the challenge is she's inherently smaller, less strong.
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I think God could see that at the time of the fall when he says to Eve, almost forewarning, he will potentially rule over you.
Jenet EricksonGUEST
That's not God's way, but it's sort of inherent in the biological realities of men and women.
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And so you can imagine, and I do work with the United Nations, sometimes looking at nations, there are many cultures where she's assumed to be owned by him in marriage.
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So it's really interesting that right now we have an epidemic of loneliness.
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Our mental health among young adults has really fallen, obviously adolescent well-being.
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And then that epidemic of loneliness is really way beyond adolescence and adulthood, though it's sharpest there.
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