Or, why is everyone in Hollywood movies suddenly keeping their babies?

Maybe it's courage, maybe it's subversive, maybe it's countercultural---but the latest unwed movie mommies have all been shunning abortion and carrying their babies to term, sometimes getting married to the father (as in Knocked Up), or sometimes giving the child up for adoption (Bella and Juno).

What is happening here is quite remarkable. It seems that the sanctity of life has snuck in the back door of ''liberal'' Hollywood writer's rooms and become a cultural thought---but why?

I think most of this realization comes from the brokenness of the generation that preceded us. So many broken homes, abortions, and divorces have left a lot of questioning for the up and coming generation to ponder---mainly, what is family, and what is this child?

Those of us in our twenties, like myself, have been wondering about how to ''do'' family after seeing our own families or the families of our friends crumble apart.

The scene in Juno when she asks her father about love summed it up best: Juno realized that if she was going to break the string of divorce and brokenness that had touched her family, then she had to be the one to stop it. Once she stopped relying on others to define love for her and chose to love her best friend, no matter that they are in high school still, she has finally found what love is all about.

And isn't that the love of Christ, that we should chose to love, even when the world is falling apart around us?