As political leaders, our actions and decisions must be based on the values and traditions generally considered as fundamental by the majority of our society. We need to make efforts to survey the way our citizens choose their values, and understand their needs and motivations and, thus, to have a realistic view of what motivates […]
Read MoreSpanning the globe, we have no common tongue, culture, or creed. We are divided by history and geography, by social customs and forms of government. But in foundations, we are united. We are of one mind on the bedrock of civil society, on the basis of that first and primordial community called the family: We […]
Read MoreFrom May 15-18, 2016, pro-family leaders from around the globe met in Tbilisi, Georgia, for the World Congress of Families X. At every meeting of the World Congress, a Declaration is delivered at the closing session. Below is the Tbilisi Declaration, which was adopted by acclamation at the closing session of WCF X. The four […]
Read MoreWho has benefitted from the war radical feminists have waged against marriage? Certainly not young women. A very large new Canadian study concludes that one of the strongest predictors of depression among young women is the loss of a biological parent. And it is the easy divorces that feminists have pushed for that have typically […]
Read MoreAlmost nothing drives up medical expenses like repeated hospital stays. So at a time when the nation is struggling to contain runaway medical costs, a study deserves particularly close attention when it identifies key reasons for re-hospitalization of those suffering from pneumonia, a disease afflicting millions every year in the United States. Such a study—recently […]
Read MoreBecause of the high cost of hospital care, public-health officials value any arrangement that reduces the need for such care. And a new study clearly identifies an intact marriage as just such an arrangement. Conducted by researchers at Mayo Clinic, this new study analyzes the reasons that patients who are released from hospital care […]
Read MorePublic-health officials throughout the industrialized world recognize the tremendous advantages—immunological, neurological, nutritional—that babies enjoy when their mothers breastfeed them. Unfortunately, these officials have struggled to increase the number of mothers giving their infants such advantages. But in a study recently completed at the Universities of Dundee and Leeds in the United Kingdom, epidemiologists will find […]
Read MoreMuch research has centered on the factors that contribute to adolescents’ later abilities to forge their own healthy intimate relationships. A good parental marriage has already been identified as one crucial factor, as adolescents imitate positive relationship views and behaviors that they learn from watching their parents interact. Also crucial, researchers from the University of […]
Read MoreA mountain of empirical evidence compels social scientists to acknowledge that children pay a high price when their parents fail in marriage—or when their parents never marry in the first place. A study newly completed at the University of Denver now indicates that part of that price is the singular difficulty that children of divorced […]
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