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Gandolfini (Family Day): Papa Francesco condanna Utero in affitto, è ora che la politica approvi le leggi per perseguire la pratica a livello internazionale

Post by: Marko Ignjatijevic
June 13, 2022

In mezzo a queste vergognose tenebre brillano ancora di più le parole di Papa Francesco che ha ricordato inoltre che la famiglia composta da mamma papà e figli non è concetto ideologico ma la prima cellula di una comunità.

Entrusted to Teach: Classical Education Around the World

Post by: Cheryl Swope
February 1, 2022

Some families live under the impossible burden — or perhaps the neglectful default — of allowing children to choose for themselves. This practice extends to the foods they will eat, the manner in which they will spend leisure time, and what they will believe to be true.

Mommy Bloggers to Insta Influencers: American Motherhood on the Internet

Post by: Nicole M. King
January 31, 2022

Heather Armstrong began blogging in 2001, when she was a 25-year-old graduate in English with a new job at a start-up in L.A.1 (Her name was then Heather Hamilton.) Unlike most blogs of the early 2000s, which were intended as updates for far-away friends…

An Effective Tool for Contemporary Problems: Forming Our Children for Married Happiness

Post by: Christine de Marcellus Vollmer
January 30, 2022

As has been so tellingly documented in The Natural Family, marriage, married happiness, large families, and the culture of the natural family have been under successful attack for 70 years. In three generations the effects of this relentless destruction…

Family Education in Russia: A Legal Analysis

Post by: Tatiana Tadevosyan
January 29, 2022

The right to family education (called “homeschooling” in most other countries) has been recognized in the Russian Federation since 1992. For the past five to six years, there has been an increased interest in family education, apparent in personal websites and social media, where families who choose family education…

Homeschooling Is a Right and a Solution, Not a Barrier to Inclusion

Post by: Michael P. Donnelly
January 28, 2022

The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on modern education is without precedent. UNESCO reports that around 800 million students—half of all school-age children worldwide—have missed at least two-thirds of the school year due to COVID-19…

Durable Trades, Durable Families

Post by: Rebekah Curtis
January 27, 2022

The 1920 Nobel Prize for Literature went to Norwegian author Knut Hamsun for his novel Growth of the Soil. It is the story of Isak, who builds a farm and a life for himself out of a tract of wilderness and little else. Isak is one durable tradesman. He makes his beginning as a shepherd and then spends a few pages meandering through farming, gardening, woodworking, and carpentry…

A Critique of Western Education

Post by: Allan C. Carlson
January 26, 2022

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…

SPECIAL REPORT: A Plea for Honest Social Research: The Work of Walter R. Schumm

Post by: Nicole M. King
January 21, 2022

In this age of cancel culture and woke gender ideology—both of which go a step or two further than mere “political correctness”—it is rare to find a scholar willing to challenge the status quo of LGBTQ research. Those who do are either castigated (by the media, other researchers, or their employers) or simply ignored.

NEW RESEARCH

Post by: Nicole M. King
January 20, 2022

Many researchers and commentators alike have noted in recent years that sexual activity is declining in American young people, particularly teens and young adults. For many, this is a good thing, as it likely also results in reduced sexual infection and teen pregnancy rates. But some are concerned, as they believe it signals the loss of an important source of intimacy and connection.