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Jennie Chancey | February 1, 2011
More from Mercatornet: A good, lasting marriage makes the spouses happier and healthier and increases their lifespan, compared with cohabitation. On average. That’s the net finding of a review of 148 studies in seven European countries, according to an editorial in the British Medical Journal. So don’t let anyone kid you otherwise. A recent report [...]
Jennie Chancey | February 1, 2011
Another excellent piece from Mercatornet: According to this Wall Street Journal blog piece: That’s the question of new, dueling research articles out in the February issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family, which try to explain the decline in marital happiness of some new mothers. I don’t need a research article (never mind two) [...]
Jennie Chancey | February 1, 2011
From the folks at Mercatornet: With the feverish discussion going on over at the Wall Street Journal about the parenting style of “Chinese mother” Amy Chua (nearly 7,000 comments, last time I checked), I’m not sure why I felt the need to toss in my two cents—perhaps I felt ‘called out’ to defend my own [...]
Jennie Chancey | February 1, 2011
One of the most frequently repeated truisms of the abortion debate is that pro-lifers really don’t care about life. As much as they talk about protecting the unborn, we are told, pro-lifers do nothing to support mothers and infants who are already in the world. Liberal writers such as Matthew Yglesias are given to observing [...]
