Category: Marriage/Family

Compared to single moms, married moms do less paid work, spend more time on “household production” activities, and spend more time with their children, who also get more time with dad.

“Every child deserves a family,” begins President Donald Trump’s executive order last June on “Strengthening the Child Welfare System for America’s Children.” The Trump administration made foster children a priority, working with state and local groups to place children in loving homes more quickly and to ensure that fewer children are entering the system to begin with.

With mass homeschooling becoming the new norm starting early last year, one might easily assume that parents have by now adjusted to their new roles as teachers and work-from-home employees, in addition to their parenting responsibilities. That may be true for some, but I tend to think those people are in the minority.

C.S. Lewis correctly intuited that heaven is being lived here and now, and so is hell. An important point of contrast between the two is how we respond to the pain and unfairness of a fallen world.

French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of “The Little Prince,” wrote, “One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eye.” Love and hugging are essential. You can put a child in an institution with plenty of food and clothing but you can’t expect a child to thrive in an environment where all you have are people who work for a paycheck.

Families, too, can use digital games to set up collaborative endeavors within the home where each family member participates in their own way. For instance, a child doesn’t need to actively play the game in order to meaningfully participate and develop problem-solving, communication and spatial reasoning skills.