This Week‘s Featured Article

Marriage/Family

IN DEFENSE OF MEN.

Looking at my life, I am surrounded by good men who work hard, love their families, and do so with very little recognition. Most men I know try to live good moral lives, but they are imperfect. The truth is we are all capable of evil and goodness, and that capability has little to do with our sex. The world is not as black-and-white as protesters or activists like to imagine. Too often, we women fail to see the weaknesses of our own sex or the strengths of the opposite. But headlines and initiatives send boys this clear message: “There is something seriously wrong with men.” Read more

Is School Literature Driving Our Dysfunctional Society?

“I grew up in a dysfunctional family. You know what helped me raise the happy, functional family I have now? The Betsy-Tacy books.”

Having read the books, I can understand her sentiment. The families in them are in no way perfect, yet they depict the happy childhood which results from life in a stable, two-parent home.

In today’s world, many would brush off such books as too idealistic. Modern students, it is argued, live in a much different world. Feeding them reading material which corresponds to the issues we deal with in modern life is what they need, we’re told. And so we give them a variety of fiction that deals with troubled youth or political issues. Read more

These Fathers are Unseen and Unsupported.

When I think about fatherhood, as I often do, I wonder how men are faring in college who are already dads. After all, parenting in college brings unique challenges to graduating.

Unfortunately, the picture isn’t pretty. We see huge dropout rates among dads enrolled in college, which contributes to fewer men getting college degrees. While mothers make up about 70% of the nearly 4 million parents in college, there are more than 1 million fathers enrolled. There’s a large difference in dropout rates with 61% of dads dropping out compared to 48% of moms. Read more

Parenting/Parental Rights

Parents Are Profiting From Child Abuse, And Corporate Media Like Fox News Are Helping.

The Whittingtons first publicized their decision to raise female Ryland as a boy in a YouTube video in 2014. The video, featuring photos and home videos of Ryland as a little girl before her parents cut her hair and dressed her like a boy, quickly went viral.

Since its publication, the video has recorded more than 8 million views and served as the inspiration for several TV segments and articles by multiple corporate media outlets..

Because the Whittingtons were willing to sacrifice their child’s privacy for views on their website, television, and social media, they’ve been hailed by journos at CNN, Fox News, and other corporate media outlets as “incredibly brave.” Read more

Letter to a Worried Grandma.

Growing up being told you are incompetent in the normal activities of life and are in constant danger of getting hurt (physically or emotionally) is a recipe for anxiety. And yet, our culture has decided the kindest thing it can do is treat all kids as fragile. Unfortunately, that becomes a culture that takes away people’s power and replaces it with ever more diagnoses of disability, policing of relationships, and oversight of everyday interactions. It gives power to bureaucrats in charge of every kind of “safety.” Read more

Singapore faces legal and ethical challenges with sperm and egg donation.

Those conceived by sperm or egg donation face exactly the same situation as adoptees, and by a similar logic, there should also be mandatory disclosure briefings for prospective sperm and egg donors, as well as recipient IVF patients. Numerous psychological studies and news reports have attested to similar psychological and identity issues facing both donor-conceived people and adoptees. To maintain legal and ethical consistency, if an adoption register is established to facilitate contact between adoptees and their birth parents, an IVF donor register should also be set up. This would thus accord the same legal rights of adopted children to donor-conceived offspring. Read more

Sanctity of Life

EU Parliament Attacks U.S. Supreme Court.

The European Parliament has adopted a resolution attacking the U.S. Supreme Court and pro-life Americans for efforts to overturn the federal abortion regime in the United States.

The resolution not only condemns the U.S. Supreme Court, but it also urges the European Union to interfere in U.S. politics by funding U.S. abortion lobby groups like Planned Parenthood that are “promoting and providing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the country, as an expression of its unwavering commitment to these rights.” Read more

Woman with disability opts out of assisted suicide after she receives funds to help with her condition.

The 31-year-old woman, known as Denise, suffers from Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS), which trigger rashes, difficulty breathing, and blinding headaches. She had previously applied and received approval for assisted suicide “essentially, because of abject poverty” as she put it.

However, in response to the original story, a GoFundMe campaign was set up by members of the public, which has garnered more than $65,000 in donations from almost a thousand strangers. Denise has now been able to find temporary accommodation that does not exacerbate her symptoms. Read more

Baby dies after mother takes abortion pill at 30 weeks.

Despite desperate attempts to save the little boy, named Ronnie, he died four days later at a maternity unit in Sheffield.

According to a coroner’s inquest, the mother from East Yorkshire believed she was only twelve weeks pregnant when she decided to have an abortion. Read more

Religion

Iran using proxy militias to drive Christians out of Middle East: report.

Defining invisible jihad as “demographic reduction through coerced emigration,” the report adds that “these militias use extant conflicts to manufacture conditions behind the massive exodus.”

While Islamic countries, both Shia and Sunni, had historically protected Christians and Muslims, though as second-class citizens, it’s “neo-Shiism,” or “Khomenism,” introduced by Ayatollah Khomeini, the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989, is behind the exodus of Christians from the Middle East, the report said. Read more

Lawyer for Fired Football Coach Corrects Biggest Misconception About Prayer Case.

A lawyer for a Christian football coach fired for praying on the 50-yard line said Sports Illustrated’s claim that a legal win for the coach would cause “an erosion of a bedrock of American democracy” is “ridiculous.” Read more

Children in faith-based child welfare programs safer than those in secular ones, Baylor study suggests.

In the study, titled “The Association of Christian Childcare Administrators: Keeping Children Safe,” Byron R. Johnson, director of Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion, and William Wubbenhorst, a nonresident fellow in Baylor’s program on prosocial behavior, conducted a preliminary assessment of child safety outcomes through an analysis of insurance data for Christian child welfare organizations connected with the Association of Christian Childcare Administrators as it pertains to their liability for professional and sexual abuse. Read more

Sexuality

Pedophilia Activist Arrested in Mexico.

Nelson Maatman, 27, Dutch leader of an international pedophile and pornography network, was caught setting up party that tried to legalize adults having sex with 12-year-olds. He was arrested in Mexico after being ‘found with a gun, cocaine and child porn’. Read more

‘Detransitioner’ tells all in horrifying account of what ‘gender affirmation’ really mean.

“Gender affirmation” is being increasingly exposed, by those who have undergone the battery of hormones and surgeries that it entails, as a horrifying life sentence. One story was recent posted to Twitter by a young man using the name “TullipR.” It has gone viral since being retweeted by J.K. Rowling, and I would like to quote it in full—I’ve retained the grammar errors and am rendering his testimony as he wrote it: Read more

Study Connects Jump in Youth Suicide With Transgender Treatments, Lack of Parental Consent.

The Heritage study released Monday found that 2020 saw 1.6 more suicides per 100,000 residents ages 12 to 23 in states that allow minors access to puberty blockers and other gender-reassignment procedures without parental consent. Read more