This Week‘s Featured Article

Marriage/Family

School Shootings Aren’t Caused By Faulty Gun Laws But By The Collapse Of The Family.

Abbott noted that 18-year-olds have been able to buy rifles in Texas for more than 60 years, and then asked: “Why is it that the majority of those 60 years we did not have school shootings and we do now?”

But he stopped short, saying, “The reality is I do not know the answer to that question.”

Abbott can pretend not to know, but I suspect that he, along with most everyone else in America, knows perfectly well the answer to that question. It has nothing to do with gun technology or gun control laws and everything to do with our corrupt culture, and especially with the collapse of the family. Read more

Could the future of parenthood be having virtual children in the metaverse?

The Guardian says that would-be parents will soon be able to opt for cheap and cuddle-able digital offspring. Virtual children that play with you, cuddle you, and even look like you will be commonplace in 50 years, and could help to combat overpopulation, an artificial intelligence expert has claimed. Read more

Not the Bee has a great article to counter this false philosophy… “Whatever you want to call it, a thing that ‘costs next to nothing’ and will ‘require minimal resources’ is not a child, and it’s obscene to pretend otherwise.

“They’re an inestimable gift from God and made in His image, an absolute joy, and an indispensable part of any society that wants to consider itself healthy and thriving. You can’t have a prosperous and happy civilization without kids.”

Happy wife, longer life! Being married is linked to 20% lower risk of an early death, major study finds.

Married people are up to a fifth less likely to suffer an early death than those not in wedlock, a major study suggests.

Researchers looked at the medical records of half a million people in their fifties in Asia over 15 years. They found being married was associated with a 15 per cent overall lower risk of death from all causes compared to singletons or unmarried people. Read more

Parenting/Parental Rights

Nine Ways to Raise Fearful, Unhappy, and Woke Kids (Without Really Trying).

Here are just a few maneuvers that can help cast a storm cloud over the sunshine of childhood in this year of our trouble and turmoil:

1. Discuss current events in front of your six-year-old. Bring up abortion, riots, and the war in Ukraine. Climate change in particular is apt to scare the pants off little Johnny and leave him in a state of terror. Knowing that the planet is going to implode because he’s been born will likely induce guilt for the remainder of his days—though that attitude may cost you grandchildren someday.
2. Complain constantly about the high price of gas, groceries, and housing. Gripe about costs, and you’ll raise children who believe they are living in dire poverty.
3. Pay more attention to your cell phone than to the kids. Read more

National School Board Association Wanted Military to Crack Down on Concerned Parents.

Parental rights in education is not domestic terrorism. Any organization that says otherwise should have no influence over public policy whatsoever.

And yet, in a first draft of a letter to President Joe Biden, the National School Boards Association requested the Army National Guard and military police to monitor parents in school board meetings. Why? Because parents voicing concern about woke curriculum is tantamount to “domestic terrorism.” Read more

Social Media Is Hurting Kids, but a Fix May Be on Horizon.

We can see the effects with our own eyes. The erosion of character, increasing atomization, and difficulty forming genuine relationships in real life among today’s children are enough to stunt a nation going forward. Children and adolescents in our cities walk around like zombies, ride slack-jawed in backseats, and sit hunched over at dinner tables across the country glued to their phones and the ersatz connections they peddle.

But with these technologies so entrenched, what can be done? Read more

Sanctity of Life

Evidence that maternal deaths have increased since abortion legalized in Ethiopia: Oxford doctor.

‘Rather than being a silver bullet to reduce deaths from abortion, abortion legalization has resulted in a vast increase in the number of abortions, without any appreciable decrease in abortion mortality or maternal mortality.’ Read more

Dutch Council of State rejects draft law on assisted suicide for the elderly.

Last December, the Council of State made a report about the draft law known as “completed life law”, drawn up by the former MP of liberal party D66 Pia Dijkstra, and it has recently released it.

The report points out that “the government has a duty to protect its citizens against involuntary, hasty or ill-informed decisions about ending their lives and to prevent abuse”. Read more

U.S. lawmakers condemn new WHO abortion guidelines.

The letter, signed by fifty-five U.S. Senate and House members, criticized the international health agency for promoting dangerous abortion protocols, “trampling” on sovereignty and infringing on conscience rights.

The World Health Organization’s abortion guidelines issued in March of this year call on countries to remove all legal and policy restrictions on abortion, in line with the demands of abortion industry lobby groups. The guidelines were drafted by a litany of pro-abortion groups from around the world. Read more

Religion

Mainstream media admits Trudeau’s anti-Catholic ‘mass grave’ narrative was a hoax.

A year ago distressing claims were made that “mass graves” of dead and abandoned Indigenous Canadian children had been found on the grounds of former Indian Residential Schools. The news of what was alleged to be a bloody stain on the legacy of both the Catholic Church and the Canadian Government spread around the world.

As a result, dozens of churches in Canada were burned to the ground, others were vandalized, and Catholics were excoriated by friends and family for belonging to such a damnable organization that could now add “mass murder of indigenous children” to its litany of undesirable characteristics. Read more

After Muslim Mob Stoned Christian Woman to Death, Persecution Watchdog Has Message For Biden.

A persecution watchdog is warning the Biden administration’s decision to remove Nigeria from the U.S. State Department’s Countries of Particular Concern could have dire ramifications for Christians. Read more

Virginia passes law defining religion as including ‘outward expression,’ not just ‘belief’.

Virginia’s Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has signed a law that legally defines religion as including actions and expressions, not just personal belief, which is viewed as a win by religious liberty advocates.

Known as House Bill 1063, the legislation defines the word “religion” as meaning “any outward expression of religious faith, including adherence to religious dressing and grooming practices and the carrying or display of religious items or symbols.” Read more

Sexuality

New Biden administration rule will tie federal education funding to LGBT mandates.

“A third [change] that is unspoken and won’t appear in the new rule but will have implications, it will be essentially a muzzling of free speech for individuals who for example don’t toe the party line on gender identity and will be forced … to use an individual’s preferred pronouns or be faced potentially with Title IX sex discrimination charges,” Perry said. “So it will not only require the adherence to these beliefs. It will force speech. It will compel speech in violation of the First Amendment, and we have yet to even examine fully the parameters of how that is going to play out in the court room…” Read more

UK Govt: ‘Women should not be erased from public language’.

The UK Government has announced that it is rewriting guidance on drafting legislation to ensure women are not erased by gender neutral language.

The Cabinet Office made the announcement after the Government backtracked over its wording in the Ministerial and Other Maternity Allowances Bill, which originally referred to a pregnant woman as a ‘person’ rather than a ‘mother’. Read more

CBS Mini-Doc Shows Tik Tok Is A Ground Zero For Kids Learning About Transgenderism.

For the uninitiated, Tik Tok is most commonly known as a place where pre-teens and even some nerdy adults share videos of themselves doing dance routines. But as the wildly popular “Libs of Tik Tok” account on Twitter has documented at great length, there’s a very large network on the app made up of transgender and “queer” users who delight in sharing details about their sexual identities and the ways in which they’ve exposed children to those concepts as well. Read more