This Week’s Featured Article

Marriage/Family

Faith and Fertility vs. Plague of the Century.

What’s the root-cause of the flight from procreation? Urbanization, the rising cost of raising children and failure of family formation have all played a role. But the simple answer is so many in their childbearing years don’t want children.

It’s rare to find a family with more than two children without a strong religious orientation. Falling fertility and the loss of religion go hand in hand. In most European nations, more than 50% of youth identify as having “no religion.” In the UK, it’s upwards of 70%. Read more

Man Admits Abortion Allows Him to Live a Promiscuous Life Without Being a Responsible Father.

“I admit I’m scared of what eliminating access to abortion would mean for my own life,” Shroff wrote. “What if I got a woman pregnant? What if she didn’t want to continue the pregnancy, but could not get an abortion? Would we try to stay together, even if it wasn’t a fit? What kind of custody or visitation rights would I get if we weren’t together? How would I provide for the child?”

These are questions that people should have considered before having sex, knowing that it may result in the conception of a child. But too often considerations regarding sex and parenthood are divorced from each other, a consequence of legalized abortion. The modern pro-abortion culture has deceived Shroff and others like him into thinking that abortions merely delay “parenthood until we are ready” when the truth is that abortions violently destroy children who already exist. Read more

The Religious Marriage Paradox: Younger Marriage, Less Divorce.

The new marriage norm for American men and women is to marry around the age of 30, according to the U.S. Census. Many young adults believe that marrying closer to age 30 reduces their risk of divorce, and, indeed, there is research consistent with that belief. But we also have evidence suggesting that religious Americans are less likely to divorce even as they are more likely to marry younger than 30.

This paradoxical pattern raises two questions worth exploring: Is the way religious Americans form their marriages different than the way marriages are formed by their more secular peers? And do religious marriages formed by twenty-somethings face different divorce odds than marriages formed by secular Americans in the same age group? Read more

Parenting/Parental Rights

Addictive ‘Brain Hijacking’ Methods of Social Media Platforms Harmful to Users, Especially Children.

Addictive “brain hijacking” methods used by social media giants to keep users on their platforms have harmful effects, particularly on children, according to industry insider Rex Lee.

Facebook was intentionally developed using addictive technologies associated with something he described as a “social validation feedback loop.” Read more

Philadelphia School District Allows Kids to Go ‘Non-binary’ Without Parental Consent.

A Philadelphia school district has announced it will allow students to pick their gender identity and name on virtual education platforms without needing parents’ consent.

According to a district blog post, the identification would also affect how students’ names are printed on report cards and other assessments. Read more

No Longer ‘Under the Radar,’ Louisiana Black Fathers Group Looks to Expand ‘Dads on Duty’ as a National Response to School Crime.

The dads’ work has drawn praise from diverse voices, from charter school superintendent and podcaster Ray Ankrum — who started a Twitter thread celebrating Black fathers — to conservative Congressman Josh Hawley of Missouri, who highlighted how the dads “changed the atmosphere of an entire campus.” The Southwood fathers are now fielding requests from over 100 schools and colleges across the country, while still maintaining their daily shift rotation at the school. Read more

Sanctity of Life

Canada’s Trudeau Orders Finance Minister To Use Income Tax Act To Attack Pro-Life Organizations.

From the mandate:

• “Introduce amendments to the Income Tax Act to make anti-abortion organizations that provide dishonest counselling to pregnant women about their rights and options ineligible for charitable status, and to expand the Medical Expense Tax Credit to include costs reimbursed to surrogate mothers for IVF expenses. You will be supported in this work by the Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth.”

These organizations would include crisis pregnancy centers and churches that advise women against receiving abortions. Read more

Biden’s FDA Allows Deadly Abortion Drugs to Permanently Be Available By Mail Without In-Person Visit.

A woman first takes mifepristone, which starves her unborn child of nutrients. Then, 24-48 hours later, she takes misoprostol to cause contractions to expel the dead child.

This method carries with it four times the complications of surgical abortions. Side effects and risks associated with this method include abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, weakness, fever/chills, and headaches. The bleeding may last for weeks after the abortion. Read more

New CDC data shows communities of color are disproportionately targeted for abortion.

Abortion disproportionately targeted communities of color in 2019, according to the most recently published national data by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While recent pro-abortion messaging insists that abortion is “reproductive justice” for minorities, abortion is actually tethered to eugenics, with birth control and abortion long used to target communities of color. Read more

Religion

China’s latest crackdown on religion bans foreigners from spreading church and spiritual content online.

All foreign organisations or individuals will be banned from spreading religious content online in China under new regulations released on Monday, in what Beijing says is another effort to safeguard its national security.

No organisation or individual will be allowed to disseminate information about religious ceremonies on the internet unless they have a licence from China’s religious regulator, according to the new rules. Read more

Biden Bans Conservatives and Christians from the Military.

The new Department of Defense policy “prohibits active participation in extremist activities and clearly defines what we mean by the term extremist activities,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby falsely claimed. It actually defines almost nothing and that enables it to outlaw nearly anything.

Biden’s definition of active participation includes, “fundraising for, or making personal contributions through donations of any kind (including but not limited to the solicitation, collection, or payment of fees or dues) to, a group or organization that engages in extremist activities.” Potentially donating to a traditionally biblical church or synagogue would mean violating the Biden administration’s new guidelines against active participation in extremism. Read more

How religious can your religious school actually be?

a program like Maine’s gives public officials the power to decide which beliefs are OK to support through public funds and which ones are not. All Americans should find that worrisome.

Some Americans believe that teachings on racial equity are key to a public-school education. Some Americans believe that cultivating the place of religion — including religious schools — in the public square is critical for our future generations. How the justices navigate these matters in Carson has important implications for our national conversations on education and religion in the public square. Read more

Sexuality

Rape support charity: ‘Fine for men to attend survivors’ group’.

A rape victim felt so unsafe she had to leave a U.K., Brighton-based rape support meeting, after it allowed a man to attend because he identified as a woman.

When the distressed woman raised concerns about his presence, she was told by the charity running the group: “We do not police gender”. Read more

UN Human Rights Office to Litigate LGBT and Abortion in Latin America.

The UN human rights office established an organization to promote strategic litigation, legal reforms, and legal education on gender issues in Central and South America, regions where laws remain highly protective of children in the womb. While the organization, called the Latin American Network for Gender-based Strategic Litigation, focuses mostly on violence against women, it also promotes abortion as an international right following the recommendations of the UN human rights bodies. Read more

Kindergartner Claire Didn’t Want To Wear A Skirt One Day. Mom, NBC Now Call Her ‘Clark’.

There is no shortage of data, material, and anecdotes warning about the dangers of encouraging children to ignore their biology and accept the radical messaging that they should mutilate and morph their bodies to look how they want.

These facts, unfortunately, aren’t stopping parents, schools, the progressive left, and corporate media outlets such as NBC from promoting transgenderism as a good thing that needs to be shoved down the throats of people as young as 5 years old. Read more