Category: Marriage/Family
Happily Married Friends and Other Things That Improve Your Marriage
The bad news is that marriage has been declining remarkably over the last seven decades. You can track that decline here, here and here. This means that the share of adults never marrying has reached an all-time high in the United States, documented here.
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Why this President Trump executive order matters for Christian families
President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump recently signed an Executive Order focused on strengthening the U.S. child welfare system and expanding opportunities for children, families and youth transitioning out of foster care.
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Military abortions drop to lowest number in five years under Trump admin
The military’s TRICARE health service program recorded 49 covered abortions (sought for rape, incest, or alleged health reasons) in 2021, but just five as of this June, the most recent date the records covered.
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A nurse urged this Vogue model’s mother to abandon her at the hospital
A British model with Down syndrome has enjoyed an incredible career in the entertainment industry — but when she was born, a nurse encouraged her mother to abandon her at the hospital.
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New Welsh Program Offers ‘Baby Bundles’ for New Parents
In a key move celebrating new life and supporting parents, the Welsh Government has kick-started the Baby Bundles program, giving families of newborns a package filled with essential items to help them through those crucial first weeks after their child’s birth. The package, which provides every baby a warm welcome into the world, includes practical items such as clothing, blankets, playmats, and a bilingual baby book.
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Chevy’s Christmas Ad is a Tearfully Terrific Endorsement of Nuclear Family
Corporate America is often guilty of being culturally tone deaf, ignoring the wholesome heartbeat of the nuclear family – but not this time.
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Vatican Reaffirms: Marriage is Between One Man and One Woman
The Vatican has reaffirmed, in a new document published on November 25, the biblical truth that marriage is the union of one man and one woman.
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What’s Killing Marriage—Unmarriageable Men or Liberal Women?
Young women are losing faith in marriage. This is the takeaway from a dramatic new Pew poll showing that in the past 30 years, the share of 12th grade girls who say they are most likely to “choose to get married” one day has dropped more than 20 percentage points, from 83% in 1993 to 61% in 2023. Meanwhile the share of young men who hope to get married has remained steady, at around 75%.
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17, Homeless and Pregnant, She Rejected Abortion. Now Her Son is a CEO
Seventeen, homeless, and pregnant, Janice Moss never saw abortion as a liberation from difficult circumstances, but as something that was being forced on her against her will. When her scheduled abortion was unexpectedly cancelled, she regarded it as a miracle. Decades later, with a thriving family and a successful life, she has no regrets about choosing life.
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Conservative Women’s Rallying Cry: Don’t Wait to Have Children
Despite some polls suggesting the opposite, new data from the General Social Survey shows that conservative women between the ages of 18 and 35 are significantly more likely to be mothers than their ideologically liberal counterparts. According to the findings, 60 percent of conservative women in that age demographic have children compared to 25 percent of liberal women. Just 15 years ago, the gap was just 5 percent.
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The Left’s Family Problem: Marriage and Kids Cratering Among Liberal Young Adults
We’re witnessing the real-world consequences of an ideological divide where the Right prioritizes marriage and childbearing and the Left discounts them in fertility and population shifts across America.
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Full-time Work is Increasing Among Married Moms
The work and family landscape for women is changing. After rising sharply across the 1970s through the 1990s, the “revolution” in women’s labor force participation appeared to stall for the next two decades. That “stall” reflected a persistent preference among married mothers, especially those with young children, to pull back from full-time employment
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