abortion birth control birth rate books children contest daughters at home definitions demography dress economy Education family fatherhood femininity feminism friendship frugality gender girlhood giveaway health history home homemaking homeschooling hospitality manhood marriage ministry modesty motherhood Mothering myths parenting Planned Parenthood quotes refinement scripture sex ed submission superwoman womanhood womanly arts work
Jennie Chancey | November 29, 2011
And here’s a superb follow-up to Dennis Prager’s piece — this from Femina: I have always found it remarkable that sometimes people think that being a homemaker is a somehow limiting occupation. Like there isn’t enough to do. Before I go on to some specific ideas, I’d like to just say a little something about [...]
Jennie Chancey | November 29, 2011
Dennis Prager wrote a great piece earlier this month about the myth that homemakers are trapped in narrow, confined, and intellectually limited lives: [J]ust a few weeks ago, the [Daily Kos] declared me a misogynist for my column on what I believe to have been four negative legacies of feminism for women. I actually wrote [...]
Jennie Chancey | November 29, 2011
I was busy with a newborn baby when all the discussion over The Atlantic magazine’s November cover story started circulating, so I’m coming in on this a month late. However, I think it’s such an important topic that it deserves a post. Kate Bolick basically opines that “traditional” marriage is on its way out and [...]
Jennie Chancey | November 29, 2011
From Barbara Kay at National Post: This just in from blogger Mollie Hemingway: “Why do we lie about female fertility?” Hemingway is a wife and mother of two children. She’s now 37 and would like a third child, but realized that at her age easy conception is the exception, no longer the rule. She goes [...]
Jennie Chancey | November 29, 2011
From Demography is Destiny: About a month ago this tragic story from China surfaced in the Western media (the UK’s Guardian). It’s a terribly sad story about a mother, Ma Jihong, who died on an operating table in Lijin, Shandong province, when she was forced by state officials to have a late-term abortion. Why were [...]
Jennie Chancey | November 29, 2011
From Mercatornet: Is it just me, or is there something sickly schizophrenic about a society that huffs and puffs in outrage at the killing of a baby in the light of day, but quietly supports it when it happens in the darkness of the womb? We are talking about the very same baby here, at [...]
Jennie Chancey | November 29, 2011
We post often on demographics, because childbearing (or the lack of it) has huge consequences on our world–both on families and on nations. I’ve picked several excellent pieces to share (now that Internet is working again consistently here!): From Pundit & Pundette: “Pregnancy, childbirth, babies, toddlers, teenagers — they introduce uncontrollable variables into life. Having [...]
Jennie Chancey | November 16, 2011
We’ve had several readers leave comments lately complaining that they don’t immediately see their comments posted to an article or wondering why they are being “ignored.” I just wanted to post a quick reality check so readers can understand how LAF works, especially when it comes to comments and conversation.
Jennie Chancey | November 8, 2011
Jon Erwin (co-director of October Baby) talks about Amendment 26 in Mississippi and the vote happening there on 11/08/11. This video also includes an exclusive look at a scene from the movie “October Baby” in Limited theaters now across MS/AL.
Anna Sofia & Elizabeth Botkin | November 4, 2011
We’re excited to announce that our new book, It’s (Not That) Complicated: How to Relate to Guys in a Healthy, Sane, and Biblical Way, is now available! For more information and to order a copy, visit NotComplicatedBook.com. Visit VisionaryDaughters.com for updates, excerpts, and special features! “How do young men and young women interact with one [...]
Jennie Chancey | November 3, 2011
From Dennis Prager: As we approach the 50th anniversary of the publication of Betty Friedan’s feminist magnum opus, The Feminine Mystique, we can have a perspective on feminism that was largely unavailable heretofore. And that perspective doesn’t make feminism look good. Yes, women have more opportunities to achieve career success; they are now members of [...]
Jennie Chancey | November 3, 2011
From Mercatornet: Ignoring warnings about blood clots, the contraceptive industry pushes its product. Advocates of abortion and birth control often speak of “empowering women” with unbiased and vital information about reproductive health, but their silence following the most recent warning from the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) calls into question the nature of their concern for [...]
Jennie Chancey | November 3, 2011
From The Guardian online: When Ma Jihong became pregnant for a third time, she looked forward to expanding her family. So many neighbours had broken China‘s strict birth quotas she thought she could too. But six months later she died in panic on an operating table after officials in Lijin, Shandong province, forced her into [...]
Jennie Chancey | November 3, 2011
From Israel National News: Egged on by feminists, Knesset’s Labor and Welfare Committee approves law that would keep women’s retirement age 5 years under men’s…. The leaders of Israel’s women’s groups adhere to militant “feminist” ideology which demands equality between men and women as regards respect, privilege and power. Equality is never demanded, however, with [...]
Jennie Chancey | November 3, 2011
There have been a number of articles over the past few weeks surrounding the birth of the seven billionth person on the planet (which happened at some point on Monday the 31st). Here at LAF, we have posted many articles about demography and how the real worry is not overpopulation but falling birth rates and [...]
