Category: Marriage/Family
China’s sex-selection abortions create 133 boys for every 100 girls
China’s coercive population control policies have fueled a devastating gender imbalance, with third-child births showing 133 boys for every 100 girls, according to the 2024 Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) report. This skewed ratio cannot occur naturally—it results from the systematic sex-selective abortion of baby girls, a tragic form of gendercide that devalues female life from conception.
Read More
The American Dating Drought and Hope for Fixing It
America, and every other nation in the world, must robustly regain the long and devastating declines in marriage, fertility and married parenting for its own national growth and vitality.Growth cannot happen without each of these.
And none of this happens unless boy meets girl. There is no alternative hack. So, we must ask,“What is the state of dating today?”
State Legislation Roundup: California, Idaho, Missouri and Pennsylvania
California Bills Would Protect Infants.
Idaho Legislation Would Guard Safety and Privacy in Public Restrooms.
Missouri Legislation Would Permanently Protect Girls and Women’s Sports.
Pennsylvania’s HB 300 Threatens Religious Freedom and Girls Sports .
I’m One Of 11 Kids. Here’s Why The Internet Doesn’t Realize Big Families Are Great.
Very few people, if any, are telling young women that they must have big families. We do hear constant warnings about how unfathomably hard and expensive children are and how children limit your freedom, your fun, and your time with your spouse. On the flip side, we also hear constant chatter about how women can balance career and family if they truly want to. Are we not allowed to hear about the women, like my mother, who defied the world and raised a clan at home?
Read More
New Mothers Who Are Struggling Need Support, Not a Spotlight
Parenthood is absolutely hard at times, and we should acknowledge that. Postpartum mental health struggles are real and beginning to get much more serious and merited attention. I struggled with both postpartum anxiety and depression on more than one occasion.
Read More
How To Start Cultural Restoration in Our Own Families
The influential professor and educator John Senior proposed a bottom-up approach to cultural transformation. “Restorations never start in the collapsing tops but always in the dull low places of simple hearts,” he argued in “The Restoration of Christian Culture.” In his biography of Senior, Fr. Francis Bethel added, “Rebuilding culture calls for quiet and hidden work in more human and personal areas; foundations must be rebuilt.”
Read More
To Boost Family Formation, Increase Stability for Men and Flexibility for Mothers
The American conversation about family has become increasingly cultural. We argue about gender roles in online forums, warn of a male loneliness epidemic, and question whether ambition and motherhood can coexist. Social media influencers like Hannah Neeleman and Nara Smith, whose carefully curated domestic lives have sparked conversations about femininity, work, and power, have become symbols in broader arguments about what modern womanhood should look like.
Read More
100 Questions To Ask Your Fiancé Before Tying the Knot
Be sure you truly know your fiancé before making that life-long commitment. Knowing about his or her understanding of certain topics like his or her spiritual life and history is key, as well as understanding how he or she views your relationship, the institution of marriage, gender roles, finances, communication, and parenthood are important.
Read More
Singapore officials call for marriage and parenthood ‘reset’ as birth rate falls to historic low
Reports from Singapore shows that the country’s birth rate for 2025 was just 0.87 children per woman — a historic low.
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Indranee Rajah called for a “marriage and parenthood reset,” and said the government will be focusing on promoting marriage and family life, and calling for employers to adopt more family-friendly policies.
Secretary Kennedy: Our Diet is Feeding a Divine Malaise
“Cooking is really important because it’s important for family cohesion, for a sense of community,” observed Secretary Kennedy. “It’s a daily, almost sacred ritual. Taking that away from our lives has amplified the spiritual malaise that we’re in.”
“Today, 38% of teens are diabetic or pre-diabetic.”
The Pressing Need to Fix Global Fertility Decline and How to Do It
It is well documented that fertility has dropped below replacement level for two-thirds, and likely up to three-fourths, of the world’s countries. Leading demographers are reporting this decline is happening faster than many global authorities acknowledge.
This is a very serious problem. You cannot maintain a growing, improving civilization without a growing population.
Families Flock to Pro-Life Red States as Pro-Abortion Blue States Lose Children
Data continues to show that red states are attracting more families with young children who move there as a result of more affordable housing and larger job growth than blue states, according to a new Institute for Family Studies (IFS) analysis.
Read More