Families in Crisis

Marital Breakdown in India Family has always been central to Indian civilizational thinking, with its many elaborate customs, rules, and values. It has remained a highly esteemed and cherished institution throughout a long and complicated history across diverse geography, cultures, and peoples. Some of its distinctive Indian features include strong relational bonding within a joint […]

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Western Influences on Family Law in Africa

Africa’s definition of the term family has for long been limited to a household made up of a man, a woman, and children. Most constitutions in Africa define the family as the fundamental natural unit in society, which should be defended and protected by all. The African family has long celebrated this definition—until recently. Today, […]

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The United Nations’ Role in Women and Children’s Well-Being

The United Nations was founded right after World War II in the hope of providing a mechanism that would resolve conflicts without nations resorting to armed conflict, thereby fostering peace and prosperity around the globe. The UN was meant to become the hub through which the Member States (now numbering 193 nations) could communicate, and […]

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President Obama’s Legacy of Cultural Imperialism

Multiculturalism, pluralism, diversity, and tolerance: these were once the watchwords of liberalism. When it comes to issues like abortion and sexuality, however, modern liberalism has no room for such things. Particularly in the realm of international affairs, wealthy elites in developed countries are intent on imposing socially liberal policies on economically developing nations, without considering […]

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The Cape Town Declaration

Spanning the globe, we have no common tongue, culture, or creed. We are divided by history and geography, by social customs and forms of government. But in foundations, we are united. We are of one mind on the bedrock of civil society, on the basis of that first and primordial community called the family: We […]

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Marriage – Global Shield against Trauma

Being in an automobile accident, contracting a life-threatening illness, being mugged—these and other traumatic experiences can leave scars physical and emotional. But whether in Boston or Bogota, Beijing or Beirut, Berlin or Brisbane, married men and women face significantly lower risk of acquiring such scars than do unmarried peers. Such is the conclusion of a […]

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Pregnant without a Husband—Anxious and Depressed

Psychologists have devoted a good deal of attention to the postpartum depression and “baby blues” found among many new mothers. But researchers have also conducted numerous studies to investigate the predictors of antenatal mental distress—that is, mental distress during pregnancy. And in a systematic review of such studies, scholars at King’s College London find strong […]

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America’s New Caste System: The Wedlock Divide

Progressives endlessly lament the way a growing gap in economic well-being divides Americans. Curiously, these progressives say remarkably little about the changes in family life that are fast making that gap permanent. However, in a recently published analysis, scholars at Washington University and the University of California Santa Barbara identify family change as a prime […]

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Exploding the Consensus

Sexuality and Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences Lawrence S. Mayer & Paul R. McHugh The New Atlantis, Fall 2016 Lawrence Mayer and Paul McHugh, authors of the new special report Sexuality and Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences published earlier this year by The New Atlantis, close their […]

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The Virtue of Steadfastness

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 […]

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