Category: Family

New York Times

On the New York Times’ Terribly Simplistic View of the Family

If The New York Times, is anything, it’s predicable. They featured an op/ed recently on the status of the nuclear family and it was essentially...

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90-Year-Old California Woman Gives Birth to Triplets

It’s a scene (almost) straight from the book of Genesis, but with a few notable exceptions: The mother’s name is Penelope, not Sarah. Her husband...

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Ukraine Child Refugee

Over Half of Ukraine’s Children Displaced by One Month of War

Over the past month, humanity worldwide has witnessed the devastation and destruction brought about by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The invasion began the...

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The Kindest Person My Son Knows is the Mother He’s Never Met

As we drove about town recently, I posed a question to each of our three boys: “Who is the kindest person you know?” Without missing...

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Brinkman Adventures

‘Brinkman Adventures’ Audio Drama Teaches Children About Miraculous Stories of Evangelism

In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus exhorts his disciples to pray for the Lord to send more Christians to spread the message of Jesus Christ....

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Colorado Legislature Creating New Way for People to Become Parents While Denying Best Interests of Children

It is no secret how people become parents. It’s as simple and miraculous as the birds and the bees. Basic nature. But a new law...

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The Garden

New Show ‘The Garden’ Aims to Teach Children About Jesus Through Comedy and Adventure

How do you tell your children about the love that Christ has for them, and that they were made to know, love, and serve God?...

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Children Have a Fundamental Right to Their Mother and Father

Katy Faust is an angry, fired up Seattle mother of four, and a pastor’s wife. She wasn’t always this way. For the most part, she...

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We Need to Talk About Assisted Reproduction

It’s not easy or comfortable to talk about the ethics of assisted reproduction. But too much is at stake not to. Artificial reproductive technologies are fraught...

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Inflation Hits New 40-Year High, Harming Families Struggling to Make Ends Meet

Inflation has hit another 40-year high, according to newly released numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS). Inflation is a monetary phenomenon...

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Ukraine Refugees Train

War in Ukraine Causing Burgeoning Humanitarian Crisis

The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, begun by Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24, has led to an immediate and worsening humanitarian crisis in...

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New York Magazine Writer: To Empower Parents ‘Would Put Children in Danger’ From ‘Household Tyrants’

Sarah Jones, a senior writer for the Intelligencer/New York Magazine, is taking heat for a recent column, titled “Household Tyrants,” where she states that the...

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Be Countercultural, Embrace Parenthood

Christians, listen up; if you are tired of the secular culture asserting a worldview that doesn’t align with God’s truth, then you must reject it...

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New University-Based Research Reveals Parents Are Most Influential in Leading Kids to Christ … With No Close Competitor

Professor Christian Smith from the University of Notre Dame is one of the world’s most experienced and respected sociologists of religion studying how faith is...

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|2021 Border Numbers

In 2021, Encounters of Unaccompanied Children Along Southern Border Increased Dramatically

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released agency statistics on Monday, January 3 showing a massive increase in the amount of drugs seized at...

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Top Five Family Formation Research Findings in 2021

2020 was certainly a rough year and we were glad to see it fade in the rear-view mirror. But that annual turn of the calendar...

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NEA President Wants to Transform Education Into ‘Something It Was Never Designed to Be’

Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association (NEA), recently told The New York Times that she is motivated to “reclaim public education as a...

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A Conversation on Race and the Importance of Family in America with Professor Glenn Loury

Suppose you had the opportunity to personally invite one of the most brilliant African-American scholars into your living room this evening and listen as he...

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Tennessee Faith-Based Foster Agency Sues Federal Government for the Right to Select Christian Parents for Kids

Should the government be able to disqualify faith-based foster care agencies from receiving federal funding just because they adhere to a biblical statement of faith,...

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The Post Pandemic State of Marriage and the Family

Coming out of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, you might have missed news last week of a significant study concerning the current state of the American...

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Fewer Americans Want to Have Children, and It’s a Shame Because America Needs More Sacrificial Love

The Pew Research Center released the results of a new survey and found that 44% of non-parents between the ages of 18 and 49 are not likely...

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How Chick-fil-A is Behind the New Kendrick Brothers Movie, Show Me the Father

I like to connect the dots, especially when it comes to the history behind the production of movies with positive and redeeming messages. You’re likely...

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Family camp

A Summer 2021 Reflection

For most of the fifty-two weeks of the year, my life as a religious liberty attorney is spent in the fast-paced, high stakes world of...

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Family

In a First, Judge Revokes Mother’s Parenting Time Over Lack of COVID Vaccination

UPDATE (8/31): In response to the outcry over his original order, Judge Shapiro has issued a new order restoring Ms. Firlit’s visitation rights. The Zoom-call...

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