Category: Marriage/Family
U.S. Fertility Rate Hits Record Low
The U.S. fertility rate hit a new record-low last year, continuing a persistent trend that will have significant consequences for American society.
Read MoreNew Research on the Damaging Fallout of the Hookup Culture
The hookup culture is contributing to the mental health crisis, and the imperative to cultivate a culture that venerates enduring love over fleeting interactions has never been more pressing.
Read MoreThe Kids Are Not All Right: A Review of Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation
Haidt identifies four foundational harms of the phone-based childhood: social deprivation, sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation, and addiction.
Read MoreChristian charged with ‘hate crime’ for sharing Bible passage is headed to Finnish Supreme Court for final showdown
The Finnish state spent years trying to punish a Christian parliamentarian for publicly expressing her biblically informed views on marriage and sexuality.
Read MoreAmerica’s Fertility Rate Hits Record Low as Planned Parenthood Abortions Hit Record High
The total fertility rate recorded by the CDC is the lowest since the U.S. government began tracking it nearly a century ago. It reflects a trend visible across the developed world in which women are less inclined to have children because of greater emphasis on career success and access to reproductive technology in predominantly secular societies.
Read MoreGet Married: An Interview with Brad Wilcox
Demographer Lyman Stone projects that, on the current course, as many as one in three young adults in the United States might never marry and as many as one in four will never have kids. That’s a lot of kinless Americans. Given the importance of marriage and family for what Jefferson called “the pursuit of happiness,” this would be a tragedy. So let’s find new ways to make it easier and more appealing for young adults to get married.
Read MoreTO RESOLVE CONFLICT, OPEN YOUR HEART
Before you can begin to talk over the conflict like reasonable, loving adults, you have to pry your closed hearts open again.
Read MoreThe Cost-Benefit Analysis Of Having A Baby
“Instead of studying the type of women who write to Emily Oster about babies impeding their happiness, Pakaluk traveled across the country to interview their exact opposite: college-educated women with five or more children. Many women she interviewed were also pregnant (with their sixth, seventh, or eighth baby) or were weighing the decision of adding babies to their brood — and not at the expense of their happiness but for the chance to expand it.”
Read More5 ways social media and devices are affecting our kids
“In this fast-paced digital era, the allure of media has woven itself into the very fabric of our society, permeating the lives of our children in ways unimaginable just a few decades ago.”
Read MoreLiving big: How adoption and Down syndrome ignited a mission in one family
““I fell instantly in love,” Kirstin shared, adding, “Aria loves with everything in her. Everything she does is exaggerated. A jump, a smile, a laugh. That turns off in most of us. We stop living so big as we age. We tone down. Individuals with Down syndrome, they don’t tone down. Everything is big, everything is special.””
Read MoreConfronting the Toll of Hookup Culture
Rather than seeking enduring emotional bonds that result from a supportive and loving partnership, young adults are seeking a “quick fix,” a transient feeling of pleasure and the excitement of feeling “chosen”—even only briefly—by a peer. Gaining the physical attention of someone else has become an exciting game that nobody wins.
Read MoreUnderregulated and Unaccountable
Commercial surrogacy is a contractual agreement where someone pays a woman to gestate and birth an unrelated child for a fee. In the United States, it’s an underregulated and unaccountable practice. Unlike adoption, the intended parents are not required to undergo a background check or home visit.
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