Category: Parental Rights/ Parenting
Mandating IVF Coverage Will Exploit Vulnerable Women
A startup called Cofertility is taking a coercive approach toward women interested in preserving their future fertility through egg freezing. Gamete donation ads tell women they can make money while “helping others” and by “giving the gift of life.” But these women are not helping infertile people to have their own children, they are helping infertile people to have the egg donors’ children. Egg donation ads distract women from the fact that they are selling genetic material that will become their future biological children.
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UK set to expand bereavement leave for miscarriage
An amendment to the UK’s Employment Rights Bill will offer bereavement leave to parents who experience a miscarriage at any stage of pregnancy. This changes the current law, which only offers leave for stillbirths after 24 weeks. The changes will likely take effect in 2027.
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Married Fatherhood is Key to Recovering Thriving Masculinity
It has been well documented that men are increasingly falling behind women in important measures of life attainment like workforce participation, college enrollment and graduation, general health, hopefulness in life, life expectancy, and overall well-being. The Institute for Family Studies has an important new article by a professor at the Yale School of Medicine explaining how married fatherhood plays a massive and irreplaceable role in improving the growing masculinity crisis.
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The Egg Freezing Industry’s False Promises
The problem of egg freezing cannot be solved by safer methods or better policies. Beyond the physical and financial costs, there is a more insidious myth at work—one that speaks to our deepest assumptions about time, control, and what gives life meaning.
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Parents Get Some Help from the Supreme Court
Paxton allows states to support parents’ efforts to protect their children and preserve their values, and Mahmoud forbids public schools from undermining them.
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The Primary Reason Maternal Mental Health is Declining
The harmful narrative that career success and material achievement are more important than nurturing must change.
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Radical Social Policies on Full Display at UN Human Rights Council
UN human rights officials took over the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council to promote divisive social policies, including advocating for “gender-affirming care” services for migrants and criticizing countries that do not support pride marches, LGBT-friendly curricula in schools, and the killing of the unborn.
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Married Fatherhood Is Key to Solving the Masculinity Crisis
Across the United States, an unsettling trend has been emerging—one that suggests that young men are increasingly lost, disconnected, and adrift in a rapidly changing world. Recent reports reveal a growing number of young men that feel aimless, lonely, and uncertain about their place in society.
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For Families, Dumb Phones Might Be the Smart Choice
It seems like almost every week there’s new research on the dangers posed by internet-connected devices for children. This is why many families, mine included, have decided to go dumb. More and more families are turning to landlines and non-internet connected phones (also called dumb phones) as the safer alternative for minors.
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Brazilian Mother Prosecuted for Homeschooling
Shortly after her decision, local authorities fined Cichelero over $20,000 USD. A judge also warned that she risked losing custody of her son if she failed to re-enroll him in public school.
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Why is loneliness hitting teen girls hardest?
It turns out that teenage girls are not just self-conscious, but profoundly lonely. A new study by the World Health Organization has found that almost a quarter of teenage girls say they are lonely, the highest of any group.
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In 6-3 Ruling, Supreme Court Affirms Texas’ Right To Protect Children From Online Obscenity
On the last day of its 2024 term, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines to uphold a Texas age verification law aimed at protecting children from online obscenity. In his majority opinion affirming the Fifth Circuit decision, Justice Clarence Thomas declared that “First Amendment leaves undisturbed States’ traditional power to prevent minors from accessing speech that is obscene from their perspective.”
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