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Sacred Sex
The following essay is adapted from Brad Wilcox’s just-released book Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families and Save Civilization. A Sociologist of Religion on Protestants,...
The Lukewarm Generation
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To Have and to Hold
Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Ageby kay s. hymowitz ivan r. dee, 192 pages, $22.50 The foundations of national morality must be...
As the Family Goes
The family revolution of the last four decades has not been kind to American religion. Dramatic declines in marriage and fertility rates, not to mention increases in divorce, have...
Children at Risk
At first glance, Hardwired to Connect, the recent report from the Commission on Children at Risk, a group of thirty-three children’s doctors, research scientists, and youth services professionals, might be...