Category: Family
Focus on the Family and Adventures in Odyssey Celebrate ‘Freedom 250’
America’s 250th birthday is fast approaching, and Focus on the Family and Adventures in Odyssey are joining in the celebration. Freedom 250 is the national...
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Only 4 States Still Have “Alienation of Affection” Laws
Can an individual be sued for participating in an extramarital affair that then leads to the breakup of a marriage? The answer is “yes” if...
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New Study Shows Becoming a Father Rewires the Male Brain
We know that when men become fathers, God has designed it that their bodies start to change, making them more attuned to their new role...
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Cities Beg for Parents to Stop Violent ‘Teen Takeovers’
Dare to discipline? Major U.S. cities are now calling for “parental accountability” as “teen takeovers” become increasingly violent. Ironic, considering many of the same cities...
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Pope Leo Warns Technology Must Serve Human Dignity
Pope Leo XIV reaffirmed human dignity and cautioned technological advances must serve the human good in his first encyclical letter released Monday, May 25. The...
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Bananas Foster: The Savannah-Based Organization Shaping Children’s Lives
It’s likely you’ve heard of the Savannah Bananas – baseball’s version (of a sort) of the Harlem Globetrotters. Originally started as a Texas-based summer college...
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New AI Tool Helps Parents Keep Kids Safe Online
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) last week launched an AI resource referral tool to help parents protect their kids online. In the digital...
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5 Unusual But Culturally Critical Mother’s Day Gifts
There are approximately two billion mothers in the world today, and over 85 million of them live in the United States. How friendly is the...
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Feds Ask Parents: ‘Did You Know Gender Ideology Can Be Promoted in Kids TV Shows?’
Do age ratings like “TV-Y7” still help parents decide which TV shows are safe for their kids? The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to know...
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Fernando Mendoza’s First Choice as NFL’s First Pick is Family
As expected, Heisman Trophy and National Championship-winning quarterback Fernando Mendoza was the top pick in the NFL Draft by the Las Vegas Raiders on Thursday...
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Families Are Moving to a Better Life … in Red States
Across the country, families are packing up their beloved and settled homes and starting a new life elsewhere. What’s motivating them to go to so...
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VP Vance: ‘You have kids, you figure it out.’
With three children and a fourth expected to be born later this year, Vice President JD Vance’s strong endorsement of parenthood is a matter of...
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HHS Tells States Not to Remove Children From Parents Who Affirm Biological Reality
The Trump administration is protecting parental rights and warning states not to remove children from their parents’ custody solely because they do not affirm their...
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Tesla Gives Owners Full, In-Car Internet Access With No Parental Controls
Lindsey and her husband are two of the millions of parents across the globe working overtime to protect themselves and their children from online harm....
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Indiana Protects Religious Freedom of Adoptive and Foster Care Families
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun signed a bill on Wednesday protecting families and faith-based adoption and foster care organizations from discrimination based on their sincerely held...
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Vermont Win for Children, Foster Families and Religious Freedom
The Vermont foster care system revoked a policy requiring foster parents to affirm a child’s “sexual orientation,” “gender identity” or “gender expression.” Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) represented two Christian...
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New Research Shows How Fatherhood Uniquely Boosts Child Health
New medical research from a group of Penn State scholars provides new evidence on the unique importance of a father’s role in boosting the physiological...
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Why Adoption is Beautiful and Surrogacy Isn’t
The launch of the Greater Than campaign, “[a] coalition of parents, students, researchers, think tanks, influencers, and citizens aimed at ending same-sex marriage in America,”...
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Close Family Relationships Offer Long-Term Social Benefits, Study Finds
Humans are social creatures. Our success as adult citizens rests largely in the vibrancy and size of our social networks. After all, the unapologetically Christian poet, John Donne properly noted, “No man is an...
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Josh Allen: Being a Dad is ‘Most Important Thing’
On Thursday, Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen met the media for the first time since his team’s heartbreaking playoff loss two weeks ago. The 6-foot-5...
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Is Inflation Driving Fertility’s Decline?
It has been well-documented that fertility is declining sharply in the United States and in most parts of the world. In fact, the Congressional Budget...
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New Family Study Shows Importance of Married Parenting
It has long been established, since the deeply important 1966 Coleman Report on childhood education in America, that family form and parents’ levels of involvement in raising their children are paramount in boosting child well-being and thriving. As the Coleman Report found and...
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Erin Friday on Family Courts, ‘Transgender’ Sanctuary States and Fighting to Protect Parental Rights
Erin Friday champions parental rights at the highest levels of government. The attorney and mother spent last week on Capitol Hill, rallying to keep boys...
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Colorado Bill Would Force Parents to Accept Child’s New ‘Gender Identity’
The Colorado General Assembly is threatening parent’s rights if they oppose “transitioning” their child to a new “identity.” In cases where parents divorce or separate, Senate Bill 26-018 mandates that courts take into...
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