This special issue of The Natural Family focuses on the frequent corruption of scientific research that deals with family questions. The problem is actually not new. In a 1966 article for the academic journal Social Problems entitled “False Criteria of Causality in Delinquency Research,” sociologists Travis Hirschi and Hanan C. Selvin expose the errors of […]
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During the 1990’s, dozens of academic conferences and hefty volumes of analysis appeared on the problem of “the home,” a focus that continues to our day. Driving this analysis has been the wave of feminist scholars, for whom the home has served as “the crucible of gender domination.” Expected phrases such as “patriarchal capitalism” and […]
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A defining feature of the United States of America, a clear and long-standing mark of this nation’s “exceptionalism,” recently took a harsh blow. The U.S. Census Bureau reported in 2021 that annual population growth had fallen to near zero, the lowest figure ever recorded in the nation’s history. As recently as 2016, the nation grew […]
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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…
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Visiting America in the 1830’s, the German traveller Francis J. Grund found a land characterized by “early marriage,” “the sanctity of the marriage vow,” “rapid increase of population,” and “domestic happiness.” Indeed, he saw “the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities,” including democratic governance.
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted as an international treaty in 1989, enjoys ratification by most nations on earth; the United States is the one notable exception. As the UNICEF website explains, this Convention “spells out the basic human rights that children everywhere . . . have: the right to […]
Read MoreIn my time today, I want to focus on two matters regarding family policy. The first is the absolutely critical need to craft an “ideal family” structure as a model or goal in shaping policy. Without such a model, it becomes impossible to build a coherent public policy; the results would actually be social chaos […]
Read MoreHistorical Reflections From March 29-31, 2019, participants in World Congress of Families XIII gathered in the beautiful medieval city of Verona, Italy, to discuss both the victories of and challenges facing the pro-family movement around the world. The League, one-half of the ruling coalition in the Italian government, participated heavily in the event. The media […]
Read MoreHomeschooling is important to a society for three reasons. First, it helps to create conditions for a real and sustainable democracy. A great error of both modern libertarianism on the political right and contemporary European socialism on the left has been to leave the isolated individual as the only relevant political and economic actor. The […]
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