This Week’s Featured Article

Marriage/Family

South Korea: the world’s worst birth dearth.

The latest news from Statistics Korea is that South Korea has broken its own record with a 2021 fertility rate of 0.81. Scary. This marks their fourth straight year of less than 1.0 fertility!

The Korea Times called it a “bleak demographic situation.” Read more

What We Know About Paternity Leave.

Reading through the extensive research on the subject of paternity leave, you’d have to conclude that experts primary interest has not been family bonding, nor even involved fathers as a good in and of themselves, but the re-ordering of gender relations.

Fathers need to take care of their infant sons and daughters so that women will be freer to pursue their careers, or as economists sometimes put it, to reach their “full labor market potential.”

Paternity leave will ensure that fathers develop their childcare skills so they will stop viewing mothers as the default caretaker. That would allow women to shift some of their energies from domestic responsibilities to market work, to earn more money, and so bring about more gender equality. Women who cut back work hours, work part time, or maybe even stay at home to be with their children represent a retreat into the socially-constructed gender roles policy needs to overcome. Equality is all. Read more

Fatherhood initiative to boost mentorship programs heads to Gov. DeSantis’ desk.

The initiative — led by House Speaker Chris Sprowls — had received bipartisan support throughout the 2022 legislative session to address a “fatherhood” crisis in Florida, including boosting mentorship programs for at-risk youth and pushing for tens of millions for resources to support fathers. Read more

Parenting/Parental Rights

Devastated Mother Whose Teen Committed Suicide After State Intervened In Gender Transition Issues Heartbreaking Warning.

Abigail Martinez’s daughter, Yaeli, was removed from her custody over her resistance to the state’s involvement with her gender identity and desired treatment before the teen ultimately took her own life by stepping in front of a train. Read more

Transgender Indoctrination at School and in Kids’ Movies.

Woke corporate CEOs seem to think they know better than voters what’s best for the country. These titans are throwing their companies’ clout and cash behind activists pushing gender-fluidity lessons for kindergarteners and other extreme political causes. Read more

Kansas Weighs Protecting Rights of Children, Families in Education.

These parental bills of rights put parents back at the center of intimate questions regarding a child’s mental and physical health. The proposals also empower parents to make decisions as they protect their children from radical, explicit sexual teaching content—along with racially discriminatory material—being used in state public schools. Read more

Sanctity of Life

Surrogate Babies of Ukraine Treated Like a Commodity.

“Ukraine is one of relatively few countries that offer surrogacy services to foreigners,” The New York Times reports. “By some estimates, its industry is the largest in the world; lawyers involved in the business say about 500 women are now pregnant in Ukraine as surrogate mothers for foreign clients.”

There’s big money in baby farming, notes Jennifer Lahl, a former pediatric nurse who started the Center for Bioethics and Culture, and she warns, “There’s plenty of bad actors in big fertility.” Read more

UN group reportedly sending abortion drugs to Ukraine as part of ‘post-rape kits’.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) could be sending abortifacient drugs to Ukraine as part of “post-rape kits.”

“We stand with the brave work of @UNFPA to deliver contraception and birthing, feminine hygiene & post-rape kits,” Planned Parenthood Global tweeted on March 11. Read more

5 Key Takeaways From Judge Jackson’s Hearing.

She said she would consider several factors in determining whether or not to reverse a precedent. However, Jackson made clear that she wouldn’t apply the standard to the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade.

That case, which has faced challenges from GOP states, is “the settled law of the Supreme Court,” and Jackson made clear that, if faced with the decision to overturn it, she would rely on the precedent established in Roe v. Wade.

“Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?” Blackburn asked.

“Can I provide a definition?” Jackson said. “No. I can’t. I’m not a biologist.” Read more

Religion

Hong Kong’s religious freedom now firmly in Beijing’s sights.

Pro-Beijing media is now openly talking about restrictions on religion in Hong Kong. According to Ta Kung Pao, Lawrence Ma, the executive director of the Hong Kong Legal Exchange Foundation, has called on the Hong Kong government to abrogate an old colonial law, the Chinese Temple Ordinance, to reapply it to all religions. In other words, to impose new administrative measures on religion.

Ma went further in an unprovoked attack, arguing “Western” religions are incompatible with Chinese culture, claiming — falsely — that they “encourage us to forget our ancestors.” Read more

In Its First Year, Biden’s HHS Relentlessly Attacked Christians And Unborn Babies.

March 18 marked one year since pro-abortion radical Xavier Becerra was confirmed as President Joe Biden’s appointee for secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Although both men claim to be faithful Catholics, they have launched unprecedented attacks on people of faith by eliminating vital conscience and religious freedom protections and funneling millions of taxpayer dollars to the abortion industry. Read more

Large Majority of Americans Believe Country’s ‘Moral Compass’ Is Pointed in Wrong Direction, New Poll Finds.

The “Faith in America Survey,” conducted by The Marist College Poll, found a stunning 72% of Americans believe “the nation’s moral compass is pointed in the wrong direction.” However, while a majority believe the U.S. is morally adrift, only 40% said they attend religious services at least once or twice a month, and even fewer (35%) said they believe the future of the country is in God’s hands. Read more

Sexuality

Transgender Who Raped Multiple Women in Hospital Spared Prison Because “Women Can’t Rape Women”.

One of his attacks was caught on CCTV. But law enforcement refused to accept it as a possibility because in the all-women hospital, it was “impossible” for the victim to have been raped by a fellow woman.

In our post-truth society, transgender “women” are allowed to intermingle with biological women in the most intimate circumstances. Bathrooms, locker rooms, and hospitals where women are most exposed and vulnerable are ripe playgrounds for biological men who want to prey on them under the banner of LGBTQ+ idiocy. Read more

Denying somebody’s gender identity ‘could become a criminal offence’ in SNP’s Scotland.

Scots could face criminal charges if they refuse to “affirm” someone’s chosen gender identity under a new law being considered by the SNP administration.

The proposed ban on conversion therapy would also potentially criminalise parents if for “refusing to support” their children receiving puberty blockers. Read more

Same-Sex Kiss Will be Featured in Disney Film ‘Lightyear’ Following Backlash From Gay Employees.

In a recent memo to staff, Chapek reassured his employees that Disney stands behind members of the gay community.

“I want to be crystal clear: I and the entire leadership team unequivocally stand in support of our LGBTQ+ employees, their families, and their communities,” the memo says. “And, we are committed to creating a more inclusive company — and world.”

The Disney CEO also pointed out the company will donate $5 million to groups that promote LGBTQ ideology. Read more