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Please Put Down Your Phone and Save Your Marriage

Please Put Down Your Phone and Save Your Marriage
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When Apple launched the first iPhone smartphone in 2007, it was hailed as a new way to improve our communications with others, helping us to be “more connected.” Unfortunately, over the past 15 years, the inverse has been true—the smartphone has made us more disconnected, resulting in an increasingly isolated and divisive society.

Timothy S. Goeglein
Timothy S. Goeglein
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Timothy S. Goeglein is vice president of external and government relations at Focus on the Family in Washington, D.C., and author of the new book “Stumbling Toward Utopia: How the 1960s Turned Into a National Nightmare and How We Can Revive the American Dream.”
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