Category: Family
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...
Read More90-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...
Read MoreOver 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read More‘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....
Read MoreColorado 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...
Read MoreNew 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?...
Read MoreChildren 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...
Read MoreWe 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...
Read MoreInflation 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...
Read MoreWar 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...
Read MoreNew 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...
Read MoreBe 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...
Read MoreNew 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...
Read MoreIn 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...
Read MoreTop 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...
Read MoreNEA 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...
Read MoreA 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...
Read MoreTennessee 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,...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreFewer 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...
Read MoreHow 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...
Read MoreA 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...
Read MoreIn 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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