February 12, 2019 The Topic: The Role of Religion in Lasting Love The News Story: Want a Happy and Successful Marriage? The New Research: Growing Old, Going to Church, Avoiding Divorce With Valentine’s Day here this week, the media has taken to speculating on that all-important question: In this age of easy divorce, what makes […]
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January 28, 2019 The Topic: Infertility and Ignorance The News Story: Here’s Why the Birth Rate Is So Low in the United States The New Research: Sterile Fantasies The U.S. birth rate dropped to a 30-year low in 2018, and at the same time that the mainstream media is celebrating huge pro-abortion victories in New […]
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January 9, 2019 The Topic: Divorce Day, 2019 The News Story: New Year, Stale Marriage? January Brings Surge in Filings The New Research: The Children of Divorce—Anything but Resilient In the U.S., U.K., and many other nations around the world, the first working January after the holidays is dubbed “Divorce Day.” It’s the day when […]
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December 21, 2018 The Topic: 2018 in Review The News Story: The Story of 2018, in 10 Charts The New Research: Marriage—Global Shield Against Trauma The News Story: The Story of 2018, in 10 Charts “It was the year The Avengers topped the movie charts, France won the World Cup for the second time and Prince Harry […]
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The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies are Destroying Lives and Why the Church Was Right All Along Jennifer Roback Morse TAN Books, 2018; 420 pages, $27.95 How did the world go crazy, so quickly? How did America transform seemingly overnight from a country with an impressively strong marriage and family culture and a robust fertility […]
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November 27, 2018 The Topic: An Oft-Overlooked Cause of Teen Suicide The News Story: Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High The New Research: Brooding on the Baltic The News Story: Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High In Japan, experts are puzzling over why suicides are at a 30-year high for children, […]
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October 30, 2018 The Topic: Babies, Education and Choice in Africa The News Story: Mothers of Big Families Challenge Macron’s Fertility Stance The New Research: The Contraceptive Mindset Invades the Gambia “French President Emmanuel Macron is facing criticism from mothers with big families both at home and abroad for comments he made about women and […]
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September 6, 2018 The Topic: A New Take on the Population Bomb The News Story: South Korea’s Fertility Rate Set to Hit Record Low of 0.96 The New Research: The European Welfare State—Strained by Infertility In 1968, American biologist Paul Erlich published his highly controversial The Population Bomb, in which he predicted that in the coming […]
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August 28, 2018 The Topic: Burned-Out Mothers Worldwide The News Story: In Japan, Working Mothers Battle Overwork Culture The New Research: Underestimating the “Mommy Effect” in the U.S. and U.K. The News Story: In Japan, Working Mothers Battle Overwork Culture “In Japan,” reports a recent news story, “long working hours is a serious issue for […]
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August 14, 2018 The Topic: Who Will Care for the Elderly? The News Story: Aging Japan—Robots May Have Role in Future of Elder Care The New Research: How Brazil’s Retreat From Childbearing is Making Elder Care Difficult The News Story: Aging Japan—Robots May Have Role in Future of Elder Care Japan was one of the […]
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