Category: Marriage/Family
Two Parents, More Parenting
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.
Read MoreTrump Made Foster Children a Priority. That Shouldn’t Change Under Biden.
“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.
Read MoreA Communion of Anxiety: Hookup Culture and the Impossible Horizon of the Future
In the conservative world, hookup culture is often understood primarily as a symptom of sexual excess. Because young people do not place a high value on sex, they will have as much of it as they can with as many partners as possible. In this narrative, every young person is Samantha from Sex in the City, pursuing intercourse as a leisure activity.
Read MoreIlluminate Podcast: Confronting Abuse in Marriage
In this episode I interview Kimberly Day, LMHCA, about how to better diagnose and confront abuse in marriage. Kim says that when we think of betrayal trauma and really understand the dynamics of a relationship when one partner is addicted to porn or sex, it’s important to look at all abuse dynamics to get a complete picture. Abuse is an important and often underappreciated dimension in a multi-dimensional problem.
Read MoreChores Build Self-Confidence and Crush Self-Esteem
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.
Read MoreAbortion Kills Human Life, and It’s Killing Us
And while we’re examining our conscience about the heightened tendency toward violence in our midst, let’s recall that the entertainment we consume matters. If it’s all violence and death, that becomes a part of us. It doesn’t cause someone to wake up one morning, get on a plane, and storm the Capitol building or loot a Best Buy under the guise of protesting racial injustice, but some “entertainment” does desensitize us to just how evil it is to hurt or kill or dehumanize. And we absolutely have to address abortion in a new way. It’s the most intimate violence there is.
Read MoreThou Shalt Not Wine
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.
Read MoreLove and hugs are essential to human development
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.
Read MoreGermany will be forced to think about the future of parenthood
Normally, Germany’s population growth results solely from positive net immigration. In fact, without immigration, the population would have actually been shrinking since 1972.
Read MoreDid children’s hospital break Ohio law by facilitating school sex-ed program?
The state requires abstinence-until-marriage as the ‘expected standard,’ but a grant-funded curriculum in Columbus schools focuses on sexual behavior and contraception.
Read MoreGaming has benefits and perils – parents can help kids by playing with them
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.
Read MoreStrange but true: religious husbands do more housework
Sociologists were surprised to find that both egalitarian and religious men are more likely to help their wives with household chores.
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