How Colleges Promote A Perverse Sexual Ideology Are American Colleges and Universities training up a new generation in a perverse sexual ideology? Increasingly, the answer is yes. Last year on Breitbart.com, I reported that the University of Oregon Health Center has created a new “health” app for students’ smartphones.[1] The new app is not a […]
Read MoreThe American Evangelical Response to Griswold vs. Connecticut The United States’ Supreme Court 1965 ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut stands in ever bolder relief as a profound break in American and Western history. True, a quiet revolution in American behavior had begun during the war years, 1917-1918, as the old moral older was deeply shaken […]
Read MoreAmerica’s founding and tradition and the current thinking of many of its citizens are consistent with the premise that people are free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness unless they are harming others while doing so. This free-of-state-control perspective includes the education and upbringing of children. The correct and pertinent question in the land of […]
Read MoreThe state of foster care in America has stirred deep concern among public officials, social workers, and researchers for decades. More than 35 years ago, Congressman George Miller (D-CA) was already decrying the “continuing crisis in foster care,”1 a crisis evident in an explosion of the number of children in foster care—just 272,000 in 1962, […]
Read MoreParents have the natural right to be with their own children, unless they are guilty of some egregious act. . . . Stealing children from their own parents has historically been considered one of the most inhuman acts of tyrannical dictators. . . . Slave owners sold the children of their own slaves to other […]
Read More“Youth Rights” and the Shrinking Power of Parents Conservatives lit up the airwaves, blogosphere, and Twitter earlier this year, expressing outrage over comments by MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry, who urged Americans to embrace a more “collective notion” of children—one that sees all children as “our children.”1 Harris-Perry’s remarks, part of an ad campaign supporting increased […]
Read MoreNon-Discrimination Legislation as a Shift from Equality to Privilege The understanding of freedom as well as policies affecting our attitude to family and family life have undergone a dramatic shift. What was unthinkable in recent history has become standard today. Still, for now, if everyone may do whatever he feels like doing, it follows that […]
Read MoreThe history of twentieth-century Russia is one of social and political upheaval, and the family, being the “natural and fundamental group unit of society” (Article 16.3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), could not escape being profoundly affected.1 Society’s development and its stability and prosperity depend, among other things, on the continuous growth or, […]
Read MoreTwo principles recognize and support the existence of key mediating or bridging structures in society, such as families and voluntary associations. First, public policy should protect and foster marriage and family; and, secondly, wherever possible, public policy should utilize the family and community organizations, rather than displacing them. These principles arise from a belief that […]
Read MoreWhere Are We Now? We can all agree that the traditional family model is under threat and that this unfortunate development will have profound consequences for our society, economy, and quality of life in the future. The “uncomfortable truth” which underpins the discussions that we will have over the course of this conference is that […]
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