Category: Marriage/Family
Red States Can Lead the Way on Marriage and Fatherhood
“If we care about our children, if we care about the vibrancy of our communities, we have no choice but to have the conversation” about absent fatherhood, said Chris Sprowls, who served as a prosecutor in Florida before going on to become speaker of the state house in 2020. In his work on cases involving gangs and homicide, he found—over and over again—that the vast majority of the young men he prosecuted had grown up without a father in the home.
Read MoreThe Legacy of a Grandparent
According to Dr. Marshall Duke, a professor of psychology at Emory University, by learning about their family history, children can develop more resiliency when faced with challenges. This is because their sense of self becomes something called “inter-generational self,” where their identity includes the strength of their family members in the past.
Read MoreParenting Is the Key to Adolescent Mental Health
After a decade of surging adolescent mental health problems and suicide, the nation’s leading public health authorities have declared an emergency. Unfortunately, the solutions proposed by organizations like the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics—such as increased funding for diagnostic and psychiatric services—do not meet the challenge and ignore what are likely to be the most important causes. Adolescent biology hasn’t changed.
Read MoreThe Selfishness of the World-Saving Antinatalists
This is a growing phenomenon in contemporary America, especially among the young. We might call them the “No Children Movement,” as they advocate a rejection of parenthood as a conscious political act, saying it is morally wrong to have children.
Read MoreWhy the Best Gift for Your Child Is a Brother or Sister
But Mr Brazier is not defined by career success. Thankfully, he is much more — a pronatalist, or “procreativist” force of nature. Rather than ceaselessly carping about low fertility, tight money and the plight of the family, he focuses on solutions. In so doing, he highlights what so many have overlooked: social justice and the value of siblings.
Read MoreAfrican stay-at-home mothers: industrious and independent women
To the uninitiated, “Tradwifery” is an emerging movement among some couples to upend conventional wisdom around marriage and family life in the West, especially in the United States, by re-establishing traditional gender roles. The moniker itself is a concatenation of “traditional” and “wife.”
Read MoreFor Kids, Marriage Still Matters
The science could not be clearer: On average, the children of married parents are more likely to experience happier, healthier and more successful lives. ..When it comes to child well-being, let’s consider stability first. We know that kids thrive on stable routines with stable caregivers, and married parents typically provide a much more stable environment than cohabiting or single-parent households.
Read MoreMost important meeting of pro-family leaders in 2023 held at the UN
The V Transatlantic Summit of Political Network for Values (PNfV), convened under the theme “Affirming Universal Human Rights – Uniting Cultures for Life, Family and Freedom”, took place on 16 and 17 November at the UN headquarters in New York. The International Organization for the Family was among the organizations that helped organize the event.
Read MoreNeed quiet time? Try these five classic kids’ audiobooks
The holiday season is a wonderful time, but being festive can take a lot out of you. Our smallest celebrants are often hardest hit: All of the excitement – not to mention extra helpings of sweets – can lead to a crash when you least expect it. Hence the importance of incorporating regular “quiet time” into children’s routines – especially for children who no longer nap. Setting aside an hour or so in the day for them to retreat to their room without the distraction of television or other people allows them to rest and recharge while encouraging independence, creativity, and self-regulation.
Read MoreI’m thankful that I can still spend time with my grandparents
At 31 years old, I’m thankful that my grandparents are still alive and I’m still able to spend time with them, an opportunity that not everyone still has at my age — and that some people never have at any age.
Read MoreA Time To Think and To Thank
It’s not insignificant that the verbs “to think” and “to thank” (compare German “denken” and “danken”) share the same linguistic root. The scriptures are replete with exhortations to “remember,” to reflect, to thank:
Read MoreOn Thanksgiving
However independent and autonomous we imagine ourselves, none of us is remotely self-sufficient. No matter how strong or clever, prosperous or credentialed, famous or secure, all of us are fundamentally dependent and vulnerable. We’re all one heartbeat away from radical and utter dependence, of course, but even absent the weakness and susceptibility of our bodies, we live and cannot but live within networks of dependence. Water, food, safety, medicine, sanitation, law, trade—these all depend on the many who work and watch and wait while others sleep. We would have no civilization without others.
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