Category: Family

Surprised baby

The Baby Boom that Wasn’t, Why COVID Lockdowns Haven’t Resulted in More Births

There were some initial thoughts as the COVID pandemic was sweeping the country last year that the various lockdowns would result in a baby boom....

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Adoption Provider Bethany Christian Services to Begin Placing Children with Same-Sex Couples

Bethany Christian Services, the largest Protestant adoption agency in the United States, has decided to begin placing children with LGBT individuals starting immediately. The revelation...

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‘Promise to America’s Children’ – Join the Movement to Protect Children

A coalition of non-profit organizations has launched a “Promise to America’s Children.” Concerned parents and policy makers are encouraged to sign on to the pledge,...

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Big family

Your Family Needs You (And You Need Them)

Earlier this month, in a piece for The Atlantic, Joshua Coleman described an epidemic that’s not COVID but that’s also afflicting America: family estrangement. As a psychologist who specializes in...

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University Research Finds Committed Christian Husbands Do More Housework

If you had to guess which husbands are more acquainted with a toilet brush and a vacuum cleaner – secular egalitarians or traditional religious types...

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Hungary’s Parliament Adds Legal Recognition of Natural Family to Constitution

This week, the National Assembly of Hungary added constitutional recognition and celebration of the natural family to their national laws, recognizing marriage specifically between a...

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Highschool classroom

Schools Embrace ‘Critical Race Theory’ – Another Reason Parents Should Download Our Free Resource

From California to Virginia, and from Portland to Connecticut, schools across the country are adding “critical race theory” (CRT) to their curriculums, writes Charles Fain...

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Child Car Seats as Contraception?

What in the world do children’s car seats have to do with deciding to have a baby? It’s certainly a curious question and the seemingly...

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homeschool

Online Classes Resulting in Mass Failures? What You Can Do as a Parent to Help Your Child Succeed

There are increasing concerns among teachers across the country that forcing students into online classes due to the COVID outbreak is going to result in...

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Back to school

New Tool Helps Parents Fight Education System’s Indoctrination of their Children

In Philadelphia, public school teachers expressed worries on Twitter about parents seeing their children’s online lessons about homosexuality, transgenderism and racism. An English teacher wrote, “If we are engaged in...

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BACK TO SCHOOL FOR PARENTS

A busy parent’s guide to what’s happening in your children’s classrooms and practical steps you can take to protect them.  When parents drop their children...

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Foster care

Focus on the Family Expert to Participate in The Heritage Foundation’s Webinar on Foster Care

On Monday, November 30 beginning at 10AM EST, Focus on the Family’s very own Dr. Sharen Ford will participate in an hour-long virtual event titled...

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Bishop Jackson

Bishop Harry R. Jackson Jr. is Now With Jesus

It is with great sadness, but also hopeful joy, that Focus on the Family notes the very sudden and all-too-early death of Bishop Harry R....

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Think Money is the Answer to Improving Public Education? Think Again.

Much of the current debate over public education deals with the issue of money. It seems like the bureaucracy is always pleading for more funds...

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Engaging Children in the Political Process

Andrew Beckwith, the president of the Massachusetts Family Institute, recognizes that many Christians would rather not engage in politics. They simply want to go about...

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New Academic Report Shows the Family Strengthening Power of Christian Schools

Can the kind of schools we send our kids to help them beyond the realms of education and career success? Can our school choices today...

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Poly Family

The Polys Are Coming, and That’s a Problem

The idea of the time-honored definition of family – a married mother and father with biological or adopted children – has increasingly become not just...

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Jordan

Oklahoma Foster Child Receives Over 5,000 Inquiries, After He Shared Wish ‘To Have a Family, and Family, Family’

A nine-year-old boy in foster care in Oklahoma may be getting his wish granted after his plea for a family went viral. Jordan has spent...

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Sperm donation

How the Sperm Donation Industry is Breaking Families

Last month, a WIRED Magazine story described a storm brewing in the world of sperm donation. As at-home DNA test kits become more popular, people all over...

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Children's education books

What Can You do About Bias in Your Child’s Classroom?

Written with Jeff Johnston   The beginning of the school year is an exciting time! Gathering up new school supplies, meeting your children’s teachers, touring...

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New Congressional Report Provides the Good and Bad News on the State of the American Family

A major congressional report on the state of the two-parent family has just been released and the numbers show a continued and troubling decline in...

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Promise Keepers is Back! Men’s Ministry Holding Stadium Events Again

Promise Keepers (PK), the men’s ministry that blossomed in the 1990s as a vehicle to call men to be better husbands, fathers and servants in...

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When Everyday People Want to Make a Difference

When Debbie Chaves showed up to her first precinct caucus with her husband, there were five people in attendance. Total. Held in a grade school...

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Exclusive Interview: Franklin Graham Reflects on His Late Father, Dr. Billy Graham

Over the last 20 years, Rev. Franklin Graham traveled each weekend to visit his father, famed evangelist Billy Graham, and his mother Ruth Bell Graham...

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