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Most Kids Don’t Need Therapy. They Need Healthy and Supportive Families

Most Kids Don’t Need Therapy. They Need Healthy and Supportive Families

Apr 5, 2024 |

When my friend went to therapy (circa 2007), she was taught how to keep her emotions from ruling her life. Then she shared the techniques she had learned with her friends, teaching us to become more resilient, too.

According to Shrier, that’s not the kind of therapy most kids today are getting. Instead of teaching kids to overcome their negative emotions and face their fears, she reports, parents, teachers, school counselors, therapists, and doctors are accommodating those fears and challenges, creating a feedback loop that makes kids more anxious and depressed.

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Rome to host conference on Casablanca Declaration against surrogacy

Rome to host conference on Casablanca Declaration against surrogacy

Apr 5, 2024 |

The International Conference in Rome is intended to be a decisive step to support and encourage national and international initiatives, leading to the adoption of an international treaty. It will be held in Rome on 5 and 6 of April, at the LUMSA University (Via Porta Castello 44, Rome).

Some of the scheduled speakers include Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Velina Todorova, Member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Eugenia Roccella, Italian Minister for the Family, and Olivia Maurel, born through surrogacy and spokesperson for the Casablanca Declaration.

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Smithsonian agrees to pay students $50k after kicking them out for wearing pro-life hats

Smithsonian agrees to pay students $50k after kicking them out for wearing pro-life hats

Apr 5, 2024 |

On January 20, 2023, shortly after that year’s March for Life in the nation’s capital (the first since the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade), a group of Catholics from Our Lady of the Rosary school in Greenville, South Carolina, were kicked out of the Smithsonian for wearing hats bearing the words “Rosary PRO-LIFE.” The next month, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III said the incident “was an aberration and not reflective of Smithsonian values and practice of welcoming all visitors regardless of viewpoint,” promising a “refresher” on museum policy for staff and policy reviews prior to any major political demonstration in the nation’s capital.

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New investigation reveals how websites are illegally selling abortion pills in banned states

New investigation reveals how websites are illegally selling abortion pills in banned states

Apr 5, 2024 |

A recently published investigation detailed how dozens of websites are shipping abortion pills to states where the killing of unborn children is illegal without requiring a prescription or age verification.

None of these abortion drug providers appear to face legal challenges, the Daily Wire found, despite the fact that U.S. law continues to require that abortion pill providers verify prescriptions and despite their violations of state laws that nearly totally ban abortions.

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