Category: Marriage/Family

Restoring a Man’s Place in the Home

Today, a record share of American adults are not married. While the share of married Americans was notably higher in the 1970’s, I witnessed first-hand a key feature of the shift away from marriage and homelife. In public elementary school in a left-leaning community in suburban Maryland, my family’s support of the candidacy of Ronald Reagan did not go unnoticed. One teacher took pleasure in haranguing me for my backward views. From her I heard that “a woman’s place is in the House, and in the Senate, too!”

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Your Romance Story: The Formula For Making a Great Marriage

Our youngest daughter, Annie, loves a good romance story. Her favorite is hearing how my wife, Erin, and I fell in love. And believe it or not, we owe that love to Leviticus. I was a sophomore studying at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix. I had a 7 a.m. Old Testament theology class was not the easiest class for me to stay awake in, to begin with, and on this particular morning, the professor was lecturing on Leviticus. You know, the book filled with rules and instructions, the one that even most Christians skip during their Bible-reading programs. Somewhere between passages on burnt offerings and admonitions not to eat shellfish, I must’ve drifted off: The next thing I knew, a hand was violently shaking my shoulder. My eyelids popped open, and I found myself staring into the most beautiful eyes I’d ever seen — eyes that belonged to a complete stranger.

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The Government Failed at Fatherhood

The government spent decades trying to make fathers unnecessary. The failure of that experiment put society on the long-term path to collapse. Father’s Day is Sunday. It’s much less popular than Mother’s Day for a sad reason. Fewer fathers are involved in their children’s lives. That’s caused by two main factors, the first being children born to single moms. In 2022, almost 40% of births were to unmarried women, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The second reason is the prevalence of divorce.

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Parenting: Take This Job And Love It

Parenting is a job that can be loved deeply. I was never the kind of woman who was good with babies. Oh, I could admire them just fine. I just didn’t have the first clue about caring for them. When I was a new mom, my friend came over and tossed around my baby in total comfort. She held Ethan one way, then casually flipped him to rest on her forearm, then cradled him close and then held him out. She gave him back to me with a breezy smile, and I robotically put my hands under his armpits and pulled him cautiously toward me. To me, he seemed like a piece of china that might break. My friend treated him like a football.

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Gray Divorce in Sweden: Divorce for Swedes Over 60 Is Rising

Divorce rates have gone up among older Swedes because more of those who are married are in riskier marriages. Divorce rates for Swedes over age 60 are going up instead of down. The divorce rate of a cohort doesn’t depend only on the events happening in that generation; it also depends upon which people in that cohort are married.

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