
Entrusted to Teach: Classical Education Around the World
Some families live under the impossible burden — or perhaps the neglectful default — of allowing children to choose for themselves. This practice extends to the foods they will eat, the manner in which they will spend leisure time, and what they will believe to be true.
Cheryl Swope
Mommy Bloggers to Insta Influencers: American Motherhood on the Internet
Heather Armstrong began blogging in 2001, when she was a 25-year-old graduate in English with a new job at a start-up in L.A.1 (Her name was then Heather Hamilton.) Unlike most blogs of the early 2000s, which were intended as updates for far-away friends...
Nicole M. King
An Effective Tool for Contemporary Problems: Forming Our Children for Married Happiness
As has been so tellingly documented in The Natural Family, marriage, married happiness, large families, and the culture of the natural family have been under successful attack for 70 years. In three generations the effects of this relentless destruction...
Christine de Marcellus VollmeriFamNews
US Supreme Court refuses to hear child pornography case against Reddit

May 31, 2023
In a recent development, the US Supreme Court has rejected a plea for hearing an appeal by a group of women accusing Reddit of benefiting from child pornography posts.
The Global Day of Parents 2023: Our children are our future!

May 31, 2023
Our children are our wealth; our children are our strength; our children are indeed our future!
Colombia: Success against gender indoctrination

May 30, 2023
When a society is alive and organized, the agenda that promotes anti-values cannot advance while the agenda supporting life, family and freedom ends up being implemented in society.
Iowa Governor enacts law limiting LGBT content in schools and boosting parental control

May 30, 2023
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, a Republican, has enacted legislation prohibiting LGBT education for elementary-aged children, limiting sexually explicit content in public school libraries, and increasing parental involvement in issues of gender identity in children. The
Book Reviews
Durable Trades, Durable Families
The 1920 Nobel Prize for Literature went to Norwegian author Knut Hamsun for his novel Growth of the Soil. It is the story of Isak, who builds a farm and a life for himself out of a tract of wilderness and little else. Isak is one durable tradesman. He makes his beginning as a shepherd and then spends a few pages meandering through farming, gardening, woodworking, and carpentry...
A Critique of Western Education
The Western model of schooling has few greater foes than Joel Spring. An emeritus professor at both Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Spring defines this model as the con¬ventional K-12 “educational ladder that students climb” from primary school to graduation from high school. This approach, he says, has swept around the globe, leaving in its wake...
Order of the T
Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier
Twisting the Knife
The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion by Diana Greene Foster
New Research
SPECIAL REPORT: A Plea for Honest Social Research: The Work of Walter R. Schumm
In this age of cancel culture and woke gender ideology—both of which go a step or two further than mere “political correctness”—it is rare to find a scholar willing to challenge the status quo of LGBTQ research. Those who do are either castigated (by the media, other researchers, or their employers) or simply ignored.
NEW RESEARCH
Many researchers and commentators alike have noted in recent years that sexual activity is declining in American young people, particularly teens and young adults. For many, this is a good thing, as it likely also results in reduced sexual infection and teen pregnancy rates. But some are concerned, as they believe it signals the loss of an important source of intimacy and connection.
New Research
In many countries around the world, the meaning of marriage has changed dramatically over the past decades. From being an important and even crucial component of a successful life, marriage is increasingly seen as one option among many. Nowhere is this more true than in Nordic countries like Sweden, in which most couples experience long cohabitation periods before marriage, and many forego it altogether. Nonetheless, important distinctions remain, and researchers from the University of Stockholm seek to better understand the relationship between couples’ intentions to marry, and whether those intentions become reality.