Category: Marriage/Family

Dr. Randy Schroeder recommends husbands and wives learn to forgive each other, be solution-focused in conflict, and infuse laughter into their relationship. He also warns about having secrets, interrupting each other, and using sarcasm. Couples can learn better ways to interact and communicate! Listen to the full podcast.

Katie Chubb’s baby gestated for nine months. But her proposed birth center has been gestating for six years—and there’s still no date on when the doors will open. Her attempts to serve the mothers of Augusta, Georgia have been blocked by local hospitals. In many states, laws and licensing requirements allow massive hospital networks to strangle competitors in the cradle.

A woman who was told she could never give birth received a surprise gift on Christmas — a baby boy — following a cryptic pregnancy.
Melanie Smith and her husband, Donovan O’Dell, welcomed their first child, Vincent Antonio O’Dell, on Christmas Day, after a few hours of labor, Good Morning America (GMA) reported. The baby’s arrival was completely unexpected as Smith, 28, was told nearly 10 years ago that she would likely never bear children due to uterine irregularities.

The survey report, “Missing Anchors: How some men drift from health, vocation and purpose,” was at the heart of a half-day symposium Thursday in Salt Lake City that brought together national and local experts who share a common concern for the well-being of men and boys and a common goal to find ways to strengthen their ties to family, institutions and even to life itself.

The conservative think tank says US policy should encourage and protect marriages and family formation, ‘not mere fertility’

According to Leila Miller, children of divorce – even so-called good divorces – have many untold stories. She tells these stories in her book “Primal Loss: The Now-Adult Children of Divorce Speak.”

Marriage is one more school you need to graduate from—a school of love—except you will never graduate from marriage. There will always be new lessons to learn.

Federal policies should encourage marriage and children, says a new Heritage Foundation report that proposes ways to reverse the trends of broken homes, declining marriage rates, and low fertility rates in the United States.