Today, Rep. Mary Miller and co-chairs Rep. Diana Harshbarger and Rep. Brian Babin are establishing the Congressional Family Caucus to defend the natural family from attempts to undermine and erode it. Continue Reading »
For many people under the age of forty, the days of sitting at one Christmas table have gone the way of the Waltons. Ma, Pa, and their handful of children make up far too simple a family scene. But the loss of the classic Christmas table may indicate more than the passing of an iconic TV . . . . Continue Reading »
We know that a wide range of circumstances drive women to seek abortion, and that there are concrete steps we can take to reduce the demand. Continue Reading »
Powerful female activists are fighting against the transgender movement’s massive push to provide sex changes to gender-confused girls; against attacks on the natural family; and against the vile abuse and degradation of digital pornography. Continue Reading »
Catholic Ireland's battle against the de-Catholicizing of her Constitution is coming to an end.
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The most significant thing happening in the world may very well be a thing that is not happening: Men and women are not having children. The biblical logic has been reversed, and the barren womb has said “Enough!” (Prov. 30:16). The paradigmatic affliction of the Old Testament is now . . . . Continue Reading »
The familial, connective virtues of landlines live on in their wireless descendants. Continue Reading »
Parental authority has been an issue of lively and often bitter public debate over the past two centuries, and it seems likely to play a significant role in the 2022 elections and beyond. As I write, a lead story in the Washington Post features a new nationwide organization called “Moms . . . . Continue Reading »
Italy, once the country of large families with many children, is today a country of the elderly. Twenty-three percent of the Italian population is over the age of sixty-five, and the mean age of Italian citizens is above forty-four. At the end of the nineteenth century, the fertility rate per woman . . . . Continue Reading »
Dizengoff Street, a tree-lined corridor of commerce and pleasure, is Tel Aviv’s main artery. Squint a little, and you could easily imagine that you’re standing not in sunbaked Israel, a short drive from the Gaza Strip, but in Barcelona, say, or Berlin, or Manhattan. Take a closer look, however, . . . . Continue Reading »
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