Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe v. Wade Daniel K. Williams Oxford University Press, 2016; 400 pages, $29.95 This summer, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges to a nearby hospital and abortion centers to meet the minimum legal standards for an outpatient surgical […]
Read MoreI have been asked to speak to you today about gender ideology in education. This has been a well-laid plan of Marxist philosophy, which is basically diabolical, contradicting as it does all those things which allow mankind to thrive: family, property, freedom, self-sufficiency, the fulfillment of each one’s talents and potential. The Marxists want control […]
Read MoreThoughts on the Emerging International Conservative Movement Paranoid. Anti-Intellectual. Discontent. This is how prominent critics have imagined those of us gathered here today. From Richard Hofstadter’s “The Paranoid Style in American Politics”[1] to Alan Brinkley’s Liberalism and its Discontents[2] to self-professed arbiters of acceptable opinion today like the Southern Poverty Law Center, they are united […]
Read MoreThe concept of the natural family rests on a vision of the good life: a regime of optimism, responsibility, and love. It presumes a culture that sees the marriage of a man to a woman as the primary aspiration of the young. This culture affirms and defends natural marriage as the surest path to health, […]
Read MoreI don’t know if I have ever faced more difficulty in preparation of a speech. How do you condense in a few minutes the joyous obligation of a host to tell educated guests about where they are, and how do you put such a description in an international context? When describing the terror that your […]
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 MoreShaping the Global Future This essay has been adapted from an address first delivered to an international interfaith conference:“The Family: At the Center of Human Development,” hosted in Manila, the Philippines, on March 27-28, 1999. The editors feel that it still accurately describes the early stirrings of the international pro-family movement, and sets the tone […]
Read MoreBack in the sixties and seventies, enlightened social commentators dismissed as Chicken-Little fear-mongers those who expressed concerns about the growing number of couples living in cohabiting unions outside of wedlock. Cohabitation, they assured the nation, would actually serve a beneficial social function as a kind of “trial marriage,” ensuring that those who went on to […]
Read MorePublic-health officials well understand that young children and adolescents are much more likely to eat healthy, well-balanced meals if they eat them with their family than if they eat them on their own or with peers. But how does family structure affect the likelihood that young people will in fact eat meals with their family? […]
Read MoreIn the mid-twentieth century, Swinging Sweden commanded the global spotlight as a leader in sexual daring. But in the second decade of the twenty-first century, researchers are finding evidence that the young Swedes now responding to the Sexual Revolution with a firm No (Nej in Swedish) enjoy decided advantages over those who say Yes. Assessing […]
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