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LAF's Not Dead!

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:10:19 PST

It has been a loooong time since the last update, but life has been too full for "spare" time lately -- new baby, new family duties, travel, etc. have meant shelving certain projects. But LAF is only sleeping. BIG changes are in the works, so stay tuned, and thanks for your patience as we've been hibernating! Warmly, Mrs. Chancey

Why men in ads are dumb, goofy or completely inept

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:06:43 PST

More and more marketers are trying to tap into the overwhelming buying power of wives and mothers at the expense of their other halves. Dads are dumb, boyfriends are bumbling and husbands are utterly hopeless as brands strive to relate to women by showing men as especially goofy or incompetent.

No-Fault Divorce

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:12:50 PST

Marriage in the United States can be both a religious covenant and a legal contract. Different religions have different views about what constitutes marriage and what grounds, if any, exist for divorce or anullment. I won't go into the nitty-gritty of all these theological and doctrinal matters in this post. For the time being, I'd like to focus on the legal aspects of marriage, or more precisely, the legal aspects of dissolving a marriage contract. Specifically, I would like to address the issue of "no-fault divorce," which I believe could rather be rightly termed "divorce on demand." A wake-up call about what no-fault divorce is, where it came from, and why we need to oppose it as forcefully as possible.

Housewife Superstars

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:02:23 PST

Way back in the Dark Ages, in the 1950s, a woman's place was in the home. Like it or lump it, housework was the ultimate satisfying career. If you think those days are long gone, we've got some news for you. Some women who have it all, have had enough.

Families gather around TV to do their own thing

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:51:22 PST

Electronic media, once a force for togetherness as whole families gathered around the radio or television, are now pulling families apart, according to a report from the UK’s communication’s regulator, Ofcom. [While we're certainly not Luddites here at LAF, we have long advocated ditching broadcast television, which is a major time-robber and brain drain. But it's also important to keep a tight rein on other electronic media and remember to keep up face-to-face time with family members. Why not read aloud in the evenings or enjoy a family game night around the table? There are so many meaningful ways to connect besides "tweeting" each other from across the room!]

Oh Yaz, There May be a Problem

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:44:59 PST

Laba is just one of the attorneys preparing to file product liability (failure to warn) cases against Bayer on behalf of clients who have come forward with serious injuries they believe are related to the use of the Yasmin and Yaz birth control pills. “We are now trying to determine how many cases there are out there now,” says Laba. “These are women who have either suffered a heart attack or deep vein thrombosis or a pulmonary embolism or sometimes kidney or renal problems. They are typically young women between the ages of 17 and 35 or 40.”

Clothing and the Humanity of the Superfluous

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:41:15 PST

Ideally, dignity in dress does not necessarily represent hypocrisy; rather, our apparel grounds us in our identity and keeps us sane. One can marry the outer and the inner with integrity. The superfluity of clothing clarifies one's identity. Without the superfluous, we are abandoned royalty: wronged, unprotected, and out in a storm, a storm that is blind to who is human and who is beast.

Large Families and the Oldest Child

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 01:39:19 PST

When people see our large family, we get the gamut of comments. Often though, you can hear concern for the older children–especially for the oldest–as they assume that surely it must be drudgery for her to have to help take care of them all. And, this might be a natural conclusion IF you have a jaded view of the blessing of children.

More Feminist Hypocrisy

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:41:37 PST

Our culture seems to project the idea that only jobs that have a paycheck are worthwhile, and that as long as you are doing work for someone other than your loved ones, it is fulfilling. There are many jobs women do in the workforce that are exactly the same as what they could do for their family, except that the women who work for strangers are seen as "fulfilled," and the women who work for loved ones are seen as "enslaved." Culture says it's better to work as a personal assistant or helper to a boss, than as a helper to your husband. [Be sure to read Part One of this super series!]

Stressed-out Momma! I Need A Break!

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:30:56 PST

Though I am still the mother of young children, I do have older children to help me with them. While having older children doesn’t always make it easier, they are a help most of the time….but it hasn’t ALWAYS been that way! There was a time when I had 3 children 4 and under. Amanda had just turned 4, two weeks before Rachel was born. It can be tough. It wasn’t much easier having 5 children 10, 8, 6, 2, and a newborn. Easier. Funny that that is the focus, isn’t it? Is it supposed to be easy having the toughest and most important job in the world? No, I don’t think so, but knowing the Creator of all these little munchkins sure gives us some answers as to how.

Top Five Reasons Not to Send Your Kids Back to Govt. School

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:26:37 PST

Anyone who has kept up with my blog knows that I am no fan of government education. I have made it a point to carry The Continuing Collapse on a regular basis, and I try to make biblical, philosophical and theological arguments in favor of Christian education as often as possible. However, I recognize the obstacles those of us on my side of the street face. As many as eighty-five to ninety percent of professing Christians send their children to the government for their education. That is simply an astonishing figure considering the fact that the Christian community fought mandatory government education tooth-and-nail for it’s first fifty years of existence. Since then we have gone from fighting against government schools to fighting for them and implying that those who fight against them are fundamentalists, anti-intellectuals, and racists . In the meantime, our schools grow progressively worse. Well, as we begin this summer, I want to appeal to those of you with children in government schools. Please don’t send them back! I beg you to consider what you are doing.

Leading and Submitting

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:23:08 PST

The biblical beauty of mature masculinity can be contrasted with two distortions that arise, namely machismo and passivity. Passivity is by far the more significant problem in Western culture today, so I'll tackle this one first. It is also more difficult to detect; we are immune to it since it is so pervasive.

What’s wrong with early marriage anyway?

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:19:38 PST

Sociologist Mark Regnerus politely prods one of the sacred cows of population experts, most of whom fall into the zero population growth camp. Regnerus doesn’t go into the anti-natalist roots of the campaign against early marriage, although they certainly bear investigation; rather, he argues on biological, emotional and economic grounds for the benefits of early marriage.

In praise of patriarchs

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:15:18 PST

We have a society in North America that is, thanks to the triumph of feminism, progressively shedding the masculine qualities that any society needs to survive. Women themselves are progressively "freed" from masculine protection at many levels; men, raised to be wimps, progressively abandon all sense of duty. Outwardly, the "superior sex" obtains a tyrannical power, but inwardly, their souls are stripped of the moderation, and imaginative empathy, that can come only from respectful interaction between the sexes.

Feminists Deny Truth on Domestic Violence

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:10:45 PST

In the last three decades, feminism has revolutionized daily life from the legal system and social mores down to the story books children use in kindergarten. Feminist discussion seems to be 'always' and 'everywhere'. But I believe the contrary is true. Genuine discussion of feminist issues ended in the 1970s when one school came to dominate and moved to silence competing views both within the movement and outside. [ Not for young readers.]

Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:02:29 PST

All books have mistakes, so why pick on the feminists? My complaint with feminist research is not so much that the authors make mistakes; it is that the mistakes are impervious to reasoned criticism. They do not get corrected. The authors are passionately committed to the proposition that American women are oppressed and under siege. The scholars seize and hold on for dear life to any piece of data that appears to corroborate their dire worldview. At the same time, any critic who attempts to correct the false assumptions is dismissed as a backlasher and an anti-feminist crank.

Disney world ‘too heterosexual’ for children’s good

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:00:12 PST

Many experts are concerned about the effects on children of their being immersed in electronic media from a tender age. They worry largely about the things they are not doing while watching TV or videos: developing their vocabulary through talking to their parents; listening to or reading books; going to the park for healthy exercise and social activities. But two sociologists have come up with a novel reason for fretting about kids’ exposure to media: the risk of seeing heterosexuality as normal and desirable.

Feminism has become just another special interest

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:57:12 PST

Economists are already speaking of a “man-cession” with deep implications to the social fabric of society. It was not only market forces which brought this about. Organized feminist lobbyism played a major role here, manipulating president Obama’s stimulus plan, the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Originally his emulation of the 1930’s New Deal aimed to protect jobs in exactly those hardest-hit sectors by investing in “shovel ready” programs to modernize roads, bridges, electric grids and other infrastructure. [Note: We are absolutely not in favor of any government "stimulus" program -- i.e. robbing Peter to pay Mary -- but this article nevertheless demonstrates that feminists lobby for unequal treatment of men, even when it is obvious that men are the ones being hurt the most by the weak economy.]

The Feminist Way of Interviewing

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:54:43 PST

The first rule of feminism is that males and females are identical in all respects except when it advantages females to be treated differently. As Christina Hoff Sommers, author of Who Stole Feminism?, a searing critique of "gender feminism," says, the idea is that "men and women are the same, only women are better."

Too Many (Other) People

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:51:38 PST

As a left-leaning Rutgers law professor in the early 1970s, Ruth Bader Ginsburg thought that the Roe v. Wade abortion decision was the product of "concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations we don’t want too many of," she recalled in a recent New York Times Magazine interview. Ginsburg doesn’t specify which parts of the human population "we" should cull, or how the creation of an abortion "right" would necessarily be a prelude to creation of a system in which abortion would be required in some circumstances.