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Jennie Chancey | September 30, 2011
Life requires harmony. We see it throughout nature. Without harmony, whether organic or inorganic (e.g. mechanical), breakdown results and chaos ensues. This is what liberal feminism does. It causes breakdowns and chaos with its persistent objective to divide genders. Like a self-loathing individual, it spews animus toward everyone, especially men. Patriarchy, with all of its [...]
Jennie Chancey | September 17, 2011
From David Quinn at Mercatornet: [P]recisely because it is so egalitarian, the Swedish state has also completely stripped marriage of any special standing in Swedish society. This is one reason why Sweden has a low marriage rate, a very high rate of cohabitation, and a very high rate of births outside marriage (more than one [...]
Jennie Chancey | September 9, 2011
From Carolyn Moynihan at Mercatornet: Australia is known as the Lucky Country but a report on child welfare published this week suggests that its luck is running out. Like Britain and the USA, it has an increasing number of fragile families where children are at risk of abuse and neglect, thanks to marriage breakdown, single [...]
Tiana Krenz | July 28, 2011
From Yahoo: What’s the matter with kids today and why doesn’t anyone want them around? In June, Malaysia Airlines banned babies from many of their first class cabins, prompting other major airlines to consider similar policies.” Babies. As Christians, we believe God when He tells us that babies are a blessing. http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/parenting/the-no-kids-allowed-movement-is-spreading-2516110 Stacy McDonald of Your Sacred [...]
Jennie Chancey | July 11, 2011
From Don Feder’s speech at the Moscow Demography Summit: Worldwide, the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) – the number of children the average woman will have during her lifetime – fell from 5.0 in the mid-1960s to 2.7 today, a decline of almost 50%. We’re told that 59 countries, with 44% of the world’s population, now [...]
Jennie Chancey | June 3, 2011
While we do not believe that states (or the people) have the right to define inalienable rights (those are given by our Creator and cannot be redefined by man), this is a very good article demonstrating that marriage is not about two people who want to be in some kind of “relationship” but about parenting [...]
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 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 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 [...]
Sherrin Drew | March 24, 2011
Are you passionate about passing on your faith and vision to the next generation? Instructing a Child’s Heart by Tedd and Margy Tripp is written to help you achieve that goal. Tedd’s prior book, Shepherding a Child’s Heart, focuses on reaching the heart through biblical correction. Instructing a Child’s Heart focuses on providing children with [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 1, 2011
I just held the drawing for the free Family Strategies downloads from Vision Forum. Congrats to allthatglitters_79 and angelamomma, who each win the entire set of downloads. You can see the drawing results on Random.org. If you didn’t win, there’s still time to sign up for the weekly downloads by clicking the banner below!
Jennie Chancey | December 14, 2010
We really love the things Brett McKay has done over at The Art of Manliness. We’ve linked to several pieces he and his associates have written since AoM started. But today’s post absolutely takes the cake. It is so good that we’re cross-posting it here in three categories, including the Theme Articles section. Why? Because [...]
Jennie Chancey | November 27, 2010
From The American Conservative: Defenders of marriage must face some hard facts or they are going to lose their fight—and with it, quite possibly, their religious freedom as well. Federal judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling nullifying Proposition 8 in California illustrates that, unless we can demonstrate very specific reasons why same-sex marriage is socially destructive, it [...]
Jennie Chancey | June 22, 2010
From Kathleen Parker’s column this week: It’s that time of year when America celebrates the donor we used to call “Dad.” Granted, many children still have in-house fathers, but millions don’t. Some fathers have become alienated through divorce. “Baby daddies” never were invited to the commitment party. Still others are anonymous in the truest sense [...]
