The Debate We Are Not Having Of all the pressures that have built on the American family since the 1960s, few have been as consequential as the relentlessly rising yet still largely hidden cost of health care. If it seems like families a generation ago had a much easier time affording the cost of children […]
Read MoreHow to Make Health Care Pro-Marriage, Pro-Life, and Affordable The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act no doubt has lowered out-of-pocket financial costs for some Americans, but at the moral cost of requiring many Americans to participate in the funding of contraception against the dictates of their conscience and at the social cost of diluting […]
Read MoreWho has benefitted from the war radical feminists have waged against marriage? Certainly not young women. A very large new Canadian study concludes that one of the strongest predictors of depression among young women is the loss of a biological parent. And it is the easy divorces that feminists have pushed for that have typically […]
Read MoreAlmost nothing drives up medical expenses like repeated hospital stays. So at a time when the nation is struggling to contain runaway medical costs, a study deserves particularly close attention when it identifies key reasons for re-hospitalization of those suffering from pneumonia, a disease afflicting millions every year in the United States. Such a study—recently […]
Read MoreBecause of the high cost of hospital care, public-health officials value any arrangement that reduces the need for such care. And a new study clearly identifies an intact marriage as just such an arrangement. Conducted by researchers at Mayo Clinic, this new study analyzes the reasons that patients who are released from hospital care […]
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America’s Bitter – Pill Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System Steven Brill Random House, 2015; 528 pages, $28.00 Anyone who has ever been to see the doctor and subsequently received one of those mysterious documents called an “EOB” or “Explanation of Benefits” will appreciate the central tenet of […]
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Jephthath’s Daughters Innocent Casualties in the War for Family “Equality” Robert Oscar Lopez and Rivka Edelman, Editors CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015; 484 pages, $16.59 At the end of June, a majority of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court announced that the Fourteenth Amendment requires every state to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples. Following […]
Read MoreHow well do children fare when raised by a pair of same-sex parents? Whenever this question arises—and the issue has loomed large in the debate over same-sex “marriage”—homosexual activists have brandished dozens of sociological studies apparently demonstrating that children of same-sex couples do just as well or better than peers being raised by two biological […]
Read MoreSchool administrators have recognized for some time that students are particularly likely to drop out of high school if they move from one school to another. However, a study recently completed at Johns Hopkins University indicates that the likelihood that students will drop out of high school depends less on whether they have moved to […]
Read MoreNothing reveals the hellish consequences of the Sexual Revolution more than the emergence on American campuses of a new “hook-up” culture involving all kinds of polymorphous sex and no kind of moral or even emotional commitment. Because their own radical ideologies helped incubate this world of subhuman coupling, the university scholars who study such behaviors […]
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