The Wave of the Future? In late October of 2013, conservative news sources became aware that in its newest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the DSM-5), the American Psychological Association had labeled pedophilia an “orientation” instead of a “disorder.”[1] The APA quickly backpedaled, claiming in an October 31 press release, […]
Read MoreHow Colleges Promote A Perverse Sexual Ideology Are American Colleges and Universities training up a new generation in a perverse sexual ideology? Increasingly, the answer is yes. Last year on Breitbart.com, I reported that the University of Oregon Health Center has created a new “health” app for students’ smartphones.[1] The new app is not a […]
Read MoreThe American Evangelical Response to Griswold vs. Connecticut The United States’ Supreme Court 1965 ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut stands in ever bolder relief as a profound break in American and Western history. True, a quiet revolution in American behavior had begun during the war years, 1917-1918, as the old moral older was deeply shaken […]
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The End of Sex – How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy Donna Freitas Basic Books, 2013; 240 pages, $25.99 If you have read one piece decrying the hookup culture on college campuses, you may feel you have read them all. Hooking up degrades women, making them feel […]
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On the Meaning of Sex J. Budziszewski ISI Books, 2011; 145 pages, $27.95 Noah Webster was no intellectual slouch. Proficient in the languages of the ancient Near East as well as of modern Europe, he painstakingly compiled the etymology, orthography, and signification of 70,000 words for the great American Dictionary of the English Language published […]
Read MorePublic-health officials throughout the industrialized world recognize the tremendous advantages—immunological, neurological, nutritional—that babies enjoy when their mothers breastfeed them. Unfortunately, these officials have struggled to increase the number of mothers giving their infants such advantages. But in a study recently completed at the Universities of Dundee and Leeds in the United Kingdom, epidemiologists will find […]
Read MoreMuch research has centered on the factors that contribute to adolescents’ later abilities to forge their own healthy intimate relationships. A good parental marriage has already been identified as one crucial factor, as adolescents imitate positive relationship views and behaviors that they learn from watching their parents interact. Also crucial, researchers from the University of […]
Read MoreA mountain of empirical evidence compels social scientists to acknowledge that children pay a high price when their parents fail in marriage—or when their parents never marry in the first place. A study newly completed at the University of Denver now indicates that part of that price is the singular difficulty that children of divorced […]
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