Category: Marriage/Family
Couple in Their 60s Unexpectedly Become Foster Care Heroes
“We made a promise to the kids: We’ll be your last foster family until you find a forever home. We just didn’t, quite frankly, think it would be us.”
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China Will Lose 3.2 Million People Next Year as Population Crisis Continues
A recent article in Newsweek highlights the dramatic population decline facing China after decades of anti-family policies.
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Three Ideas for a Richer Christmas Celebration
According to Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, “domestic prudence” arranges everything in one’s home life toward the true happiness of its members. This can really help us in thinking about how to celebrate Christmas.
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High-Achieving Women and the Work-Family Balancing Act
Having It All, from the Wharton economist Corinne Low, is a book that’s tailored to a fairly narrow audience—but won’t admit it. “Women can’t bend anymore without breaking,” warns an early paragraph.
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How to Strengthen Your Marriage by Loving Your Mother-In-Law
Learn how to strengthen your marriage and love your husband by building a good relationship with your mother-in-law. There will be times when you feel misunderstood or maligned even by the most caring mother-in-law. Remember the concerns and challenges she carries and choose to believe the absolute best of her character.
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What Hollywood Got Wrong About Fatherhood in 2025
The problem is that seemingly every movie spotlighting fathers this past year highlights the darker side, with very little light.
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You Don’t Need ChatGPT to Raise a Child. You Need a Mom and Dad.
Children in a same-sex “marriage” are intentionally and unapologetically deprived of either a mother or a father. Moms and dads are not interchangeable. They complement each other. They’re distinct and unique. Mothers can’t be fathers, and fathers can’t be mothers. God deliberately designed children to enjoy the many unique features and contributions of both.
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Managing Expectations in Your Marriage This Holiday Season
Although the holidays are a crazy and wonderful time of year, ignore the Christmas decorating long enough to be intentional about pursuing your spouse and using everyday moments to strengthen your marriage.
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‘Holiness of family life’: A look behind the icon depicting a mother of 8
FOCCUS Marriage Ministries, a Catholic marriage ministry, invited the priest-iconographer Father Richard Reiser to make an icon of St. Bridget of Sweden, a mystic and the mother of eight. The ministry is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year and chose St. Bridget to be the patron saint of its work.
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New Research Shows Marriage and Fatherhood Regulate Male Sexual Energy
Men do not tend to settle other men down. Wives and mothers do this for men because female sexuality and biology are more family focused.
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To Save America, Have Lots of Children
Much like in the 1920s, America today faces an existential threat with a declining birth rate and an escalating national debt that compromises and threatens its ability to provide crucial social services to those who are here and unable, at least in the short-term, to support themselves. The country found its way through the crisis in the first half of the last century by reforming immigration laws, but also by marrying and having lots of kids. Expanding the blessings of family was the best way forward a hundred years ago – and it still remains the best way out of the mire right now.
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What Makes Us Happy?
Everyone wants to be happy. As Aristotle explains in “The Nicomachean Ethics,” happiness is the thing we desire for its own sake. We don’t pursue happiness as a means to some other good; it appears to be the final end people pursue in life. The other things we aim at – wealth, pleasure, relationships – we pursue for the sake of happiness.
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