June 12, 2018 The Topic: Growing Acceptance of a Dangerous Addiction The News Story: More Americans Say Pornography is Morally Acceptable The New Research: Internet Pornography—Akin to Cocaine The News Story: More Americans Say Pornography is Morally Acceptable A recent Gallup poll reveals that a whopping 43% of Americans now believe that pornography is “morally […]
Read MoreProgressives always style themselves as champions of children. Yet these defenders of children often evince a curious insouciance about a social circumstance—namely, parental absence—known to put children at risk. A new study establishing that children suffer when they lose contact with parents comes out of China, where many hard-pressed rural parents have in recent years […]
Read MorePediatricians have understood for some time that breastfeeding delivers remarkable benefits—nutritional, immunological, developmental—to infants. But these benefits have counted for little among the feminist activists pushing ever more women into full-time employment, and away from wedlock. Just how fully the feminist agenda jeopardizes babies needing breastfeeding shows up distinctly in a new study of infant-feeding […]
Read MoreFor all of their effusive pro-child rhetoric, progressives remain astonishingly blind to the real consequences for children of their marriage-subverting principles. But those consequences come into sobering focus in a new Spanish study concluding that children who experience a parental separation are disturbingly likely to fail in school. In sketching out the context for […]
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Catholic Social Teaching and Distributism: Toward a New Economy by Michael Hickey Hamilton Books, 2017; 166 pages, $19.99 Of Labour and Liberty: Distributism in Victoria, 1891-1966 by Race Mathews University of Notre Dame Press, 2018; 422 pages, $50.00 An Economics of Justice & Charity: Catholic Social Teaching, Its Development and Contemporary Relevance by Thomas Storck […]
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Tuesday, April 3, 2018 The Topic: The Roots of Teen Suicide The News Story: Teen Suicide Is Soaring The New Research: Family Disintegration Pushes Adolescents toward Suicide in Lithuania The News Story: Teen Suicide Is Soaring The suicide rate among white children and teens rose a staggering 70% between 2010 and 2016, reports USA Today, and […]
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Tuesday, March 20, 2018 The Topic: What We Don’t Talk About in Coverage of School Shootings The News Story: What Decades Of Covering School Shootings Has Taught Me The New Research: Aggressive Teens—Permissive and Absent Parents The News Story: What Decades Of Covering School Shootings Has Taught Me Two more students are injured and the […]
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Tuesday, March 6, 2018 The Topic: Homemakers Making a Comeback? The News Story: 8 Million Mothers from 150 Countries Sign Declaration The New Research: Homemaking Mother, Mentally Happy Children The News Story: 8 Million Mothers from 150 Countries Sign Declaration As the world gears up for “International Women’s Day”—March 8—another, much lesser known group, is […]
Read MoreThere is usually a gap of some size—large or small—between the realities of life and the ideals of the law. The ideal in family law is to foster, support, and protect healthy, happy, and effective families. The reality, however, sometimes falls short of that ideal. Sadly, American family law sometimes impedes family success and frustrates […]
Read MoreIn 1888, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Field wrote the majority opinion in a case involving the validity of an Oregon legislative divorce as it related to ownership of a land grant. In the opinion, Justice Field wrote: “It is also to be observed that, whilst marriage is often termed by text writers and in […]
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