Category: Marriage/Family
The Oscars’ Unlikely Tribute to Motherhood
On Sunday night, while accepting her Academy Award for Best Actress, Hollywood star Jessie Buckley spoke lovingly of her baby daughter who had “no idea what was going on” and was “probably dreaming of milk.” She told her husband that she loved him and wanted to have “20,000 more babies” with him, and ended her speech by dedicating the award to “the beautiful chaos of a mother’s heart.” The audience whooped and cheered.
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Men and women talk about finding lasting freedom from pornography at Utah conference
‘I don’t remember the last time I felt a need for pornography,’ said presenter Curtis Morley. ‘I used to wake up every morning with a pit in my stomach. … Now, I wake up with peace.’
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Don’t Forget the Fathers: How Pregnancy Centers Champion Family Formation
The young men in our fatherhood programs, even those with rough edges, are eager for meaning and purpose.
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Pro-life states saw increase in births after overturn of Roe: study
States with abortion bans saw a significant increase in birthrate among women of all demographics, yet contraception continues to hinder future growth.
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Maxime Bernier says Canada needs to ‘promote motherhood’ to combat low fertility rates
Maxime Bernier, the leader of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC), said to combat low fertility rates, Canada must begin to promote “motherhood” from within the population and stop allowing so many immigrants into the nation unchecked.
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Rethinking ‘the One’: How the Soulmate Script Distorts Romance
Many people grow up believing they need to find “the one—a perfect soulmate who appears at exactly the right time and makes love effortless. Disney fairy tales and the curated glow of social media can make that ideal feel normal, as if healthy relationships are always smooth, conflict-free, and endlessly exciting. In reality, what we see online is only a highlight reel that rarely reveals the patient and sometimes messy work required to build lasting love.
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Pastor Who Fled Adult Film Industry and Found Jesus Explains Satan’s Diabolical Plan Some Might Miss
“What we don’t say says something — what we don’t say says something very loudly,” he said. “And when people are proclaiming their agendas, their ideologies, and there’s no pushback against that … we’re being indoctrinated by something.”
It’s for this reason that Broome is working to compel men to come to Jesus and be “leaders of their homes, to speak life into their children, to speak life into their workplaces, their culture, wherever they might be.”
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Texas Pastor Challenges Cohabiting Couples to Marry — Dozens Show Up for Joint Ceremony
“If you’re living with somebody that’s not your spouse, you’re sleeping with somebody that’s not your spouse, or you’ve actually already started a family and had kids with somebody that’s not your spouse, and you right now are coming under the loving conviction of the Holy Spirit that you need to honor God, bend your knee to Jesus,” he said from the pulpit in late February.
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Contra the New York Times, falling birth rates are not good for women
Instead of celebrating the fact that more young women are alone and childless, explore ways to make it easier for young men and women to get and stay married.
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Idaho House rejects homosexual ‘marriage,’ calls on Supreme Court to reverse Obergefell
The Idaho House passed a resolution condemning Obergefell v. Hodges as ‘an illegitimate overreach’ that ‘arbitrarily and unjustly’ rejected the true definition of marriage.
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‘All the Lonely People’: Loneliness Is Exacerbated by Childlessness
Marital status is significantly related to the level of loneliness reported by an individual, with married people reporting the lowest levels of loneliness.
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No Spouse, No House: Marriage Decline and Homeownership Among Young Adults
If you’ve been on social media in the past 10 years, you’ve surely seen it: The lamentation that it’s impossible for young adults in America today to buy a home. This is a complaint as likely to be offered by populist conservatives as by Taylor Lorenz-style progressives. The new right’s emphasis on family formation and declining fertility rates, in combination with the populist skew of young conservatives, has boosted the issue of housing costs in center-right circles. However, there’s just one problem with blaming unaffordable homeownership for declining family formation: it gets the causality backwards.
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