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Jennie Chancey | May 31, 2011
The fund-raiser for the Lee and Crawford ladies to replace all their lost sewing supplies after the tornado was a run-away success, as you can see in the Chip-In box below. Many, many thanks to all of you who donated both funds and physical items like patterns, fabrics, and notions. Single mama Diane Shiffer is [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 30, 2011
From Mercatornet: As we know, the family in western countries is not going very well. In its introduction the FRC report points out that people have a reduced capacity for the intimate social relationships that marriage demands. Most American parents cannot stand each other enough to raise the children they have brought into existence. In [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 30, 2011
Among young, single Americans, men still want sex and women still want love and commitment. But the rules of engagement have changed dramatically since the birth-control pill and these rules “clearly favor men,” sociology professor Mark Regnerus told a think tank Tuesday. There is collateral damage in this modern paradigm, added Mr. Regnerus, co-author of [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 29, 2011
From the UK’s Daily Mail: Almost ten years ago, I wrote a rather smug article for a glossy magazine extolling the virtues of late motherhood. At the age of 38 I’d just had my first child, and I waxed lyrical about how I felt it was the perfect age to embark upon motherhood. In my [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 28, 2011
This is an absolutely fantastic piece: Just two weeks ago the UN predicted the birth of the world’s 7 billionth baby this October. Calls for measures to control the world’s population growth immediately surged, with some pointing particularly to Nigeria’s rapidly growing population. Some Nigerians, meanwhile, are celebrating their growing population as the country’s greatest [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 27, 2011
From LifeSite News: As Beijing continues to vigorously pursue its infamous one-child policy, PRI has gathered evidence showing that Chinese villagers who cannot afford to pay these fines have their “illegal” children abducted and sold by Chinese population control officials. It is well known that those who violate the one-child policy have sometimes been subjected [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 26, 2011
Mariette Ulrich just posted an excellent commentary: My husband and I have seven daughters. Each one is loved and cherished for the unique person that she is. It’s horrifying and mind-boggling to be reminded of how girls are regarded in some parts of the world. India’s 2011 census shows a serious decline in the number [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 25, 2011
[Editor's Note: This devotional appeared on Elisabeth Elliot's website. I would link to it, but the devos rotate and do not stay up on the main page for more than a day. This is such an important topic that I just had to pass her wise words along. Thank you to Sarah E. for sharing [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 24, 2011
Another related piece from Mercatornet: Swedish researcher and family man Jonas Himmelstrand talks in this video about how he began to examine the myth that Sweden is a family-friendly society. A subject of special interest for him was the Scandinavian country’s sick leave stats, which were the highest in Europe. Why? Because, basically, women workers [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 24, 2011
From Mercatornet: Then there are the questions about the social toll Sweden’s childcare system is taking. Sweden has offered a comprehensive daycare system since 1975; since the early ’90s, negative outcomes for children and adolescents are on the rise in areas of health and behaviour. While direct causation has been difficult to prove, many Swedish [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 23, 2011
Two stints in prison, rehab and a probation officer failed to inspire Mike DeBoer to give up the drugs. Dirty diapers, peanut butter sandwiches, playing “tickle monster” with a giggly redhead who smiles his daddy’s smile — that’s what did it. “My dad wasn’t there for me,” said DeBoer, 30, a thick, muscular man with [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 21, 2011
From the NY Post yesterday: Amid all the uplifting clichés at their commencement ceremonies, graduating col lege students won’t hear a line applicable to some of them — you got ripped off. Student debt just surpassed the country’s credit-card debt for the first time. It is projected to top $1 trillion this year, according to [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 21, 2011
An excellent piece from The Center for Women of Faith in Culture highlights why there can be no neutrality when it comes to discipleship: Women need to hear from other women. This is a truth impressed upon us through stories in scripture about women like Ruth & Naomi and Mary & Martha. In scripture, we [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 21, 2011
From the folks at Western Conservatory: Dick Winters grew up on a Pennsylvania farm with parents who were born in the 1800s. Richard and Edith raised their farm boy to grow into maturity — a kind of maturity very common to the men of colonial and frontier America. They imparted this American legacy to their [...]
Jennie Chancey | May 21, 2011
From The Thinking Housewife: THIS ARTICLE in today’s New York Times about nannies in Brazil and their ability to claim higher and higher salaries is written in the seemingly non-judgmental style of most articles about the abandonment of home and children by modern mothers. In truth, the article is highly approving of the trend. The writer Alexei Barrionuevo says [...]
