This week, Katy and Josh take on some of the loudest cultural conversations shaping modern family life — from influencers promoting divorce as a pathway to “personal happiness,” to the difficult realities surrounding abuse and what the data reveals about the safest family structure for children. Moving beyond slogans and sentimentality, they ask hard questions about what love truly requires, what children genuinely need, and whether adult desires should ever redefine a child’s right to stability. Jenn and Sam join the conversation to thoughtfully explore how motherhood is discussed in a culture that often treats it as optional, and whether the phrase “love makes a family” withstands scrutiny when a child’s long-term wellbeing is at stake. It’s a candid, clear-eyed discussion rooted in one conviction: children deserve more than cultural shortcuts.