Category: Family
The APA Offers Tech Help in Its ‘Recommendations for Healthy Teen Video Viewing’ — Here’s What Parents Need To Know
The American Psychological Association (APA) published its first “Recommendations for Healthy Teen Video Viewing” this month, a resource to help parents protect their kids from...
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Sean and Rachel Duffy: ‘Our Family is Only as Strong as Our Marriage’
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated former congressman Sean Duffy to serve as Secretary of Transportation, the federal agency responsible for ensuring the “movement of people...
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Froot Loops, RFK, Jr. and Making America Healthy Again
America’s health, and especially its children’s well being, became a major issue this past campaign cycle. Championed by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the “Make America...
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Child’s Online Medical Records Hidden from Virginia Mom
All Patches Johnson Inge wanted was to look up the date of her 12-year-old’s check-up. When Carilion Clinic’s online patient portal no longer showed her...
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Big Families Have More Fun
It was like a scene straight out of Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life. On a cold Christmas Eve afternoon, as snowflakes began to swirl...
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Four Virtues Every Dad Should Teach their Sons and Daughters about Culture
The story is told of a factory worker in the mid-1930s hustling to wrap up his work as the day neared its end. “What’s your...
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How Biological Fathers Slow Pubertal Development in Daughters
Fathers have a profound impact on the health, well being and development of their children. This is documented in telomere length, the tiny protective endcaps...
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How ‘Intensive’ Parenting Makes Us Lonely
Last month, Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs hosted a celebration for the 1,000th episode of the beloved audio drama, Adventures in Odyssey. The event sold out...
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Beware the Coming Sci-Fi Nightmare
Last week’s New York Times contained a guest essay from Ari Schulman, editor of The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society. Titled “The...
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Family Scholars Explain the Current Marriage Paradox in America
A new academic report carefully explains an important paradox with marriage in America today and the bottom line is interesting. As marriage rates continue to...
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Princess Kate Video Highlights the Fragility of Life
Catherine, the Princess of Wales, released a heartwarming video Monday announcing that she had completed her cancer treatment. “As the summer comes to an end,...
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Surgeon General’s Report on Stress and Parenting Acknowledges Problem – But Ignores Cause
An advisory issued by Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy suggests parenthood can be hazardous to your health. “Parents Under Pressure” attempts to address the mental health and...
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Keep Lots of Books in Your Home – It Matters for Your Children
One of my earliest memories is of my dad reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Farmer Boy to my sisters and me before bedtime. I must have...
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Mapping US Fertility and Married Parenting Rates
This is the second in a series of four articles examining four critical family formation trends: marriage, children living with married parents, divorce, and cohabitation....
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American Heritage Girls: Combatting Culture’s Attacks on Girls
It’s not an easy time to parent girls. Don’t get me wrong — legally, it’s never been better to be woman. Unlike almost every generation...
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Why Americans Over and Under 50 Say They Don’t Have Kids
It is a basic and irrefutable truth: There is no tomorrow without babies today. No laughter, no giving, no receiving, no learning, no caring, no...
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One Family’s Plan to Intentionally Raise Their Kids for Marital Success
Ana Samuel is a Ph.D. who graduated from Princeton and Notre Dame, a political philosopher, author, the wife of an architect. She and her husband...
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Passing the Trash: Here’s What Parents Need to Know About Educator Sexual Misconduct
JUMP TO… The Problem The Consequences Parkside Elementary School Types of Predators What School Employees Can Do What Parents Can Do Why It Matters In...
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Parent-Run Groups Help Stop Childhood Smartphone Use
Parents around the world have started working together to keep their kids off smartphones. Early and excessive smartphone use can cause debilitating physical and mental...
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How Fatherlessness Negatively Impacts Telomere Length
Fatherlessness has a profound negative impact on children throughout the course of their lives. This fact has been well documented in the social sciences for...
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Pro-Life and Pro-Family Policies are Essential for Conservatives
Why are pro-life, pro-marriage and pro-family policies essential to conservatism? That question was answered at a critical breakout panel held on July 10, 2024, at...
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Why Soulmate Marriage is Less Healthy Than Family-Centric Unions
Doesn’t everyone want their husband or wife to be their life “soulmate” – bound together by a powerful love that makes you each other’s best...
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Different Family Forms Lead to Prison or College for Young Men
It is no secret that men are not doing well today. They are falling behind women in nearly all important categories of life achievement. For...
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Remembering the Parents Who Shaped Willie Mays
Willie Mays, the Hall of Fame baseball player who electrified the game and stunned fans with his sterling defense and explosive hitting power, died on...
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