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Jennie Chancey | March 20, 2013
From the gifted Ann Voskamp of A Holy Experience–the best thing I’ve read on this terrible crime: When you’re the mother of four sons, Steubenville is about us. Steubenville is about having a conversation with sons about hard things and asking you to do holy things. Because a Steubenville doesn’t begin with football and it doesn’t begin [...]
Jennie Chancey | June 8, 2012
From Mercatornet: The sixth World Congress of Families, held in Madrid on the last weekend of May, drew 3100 delegates to address the issues confronting the family today. In a concluding statement the congress listed the challenges: ”Ideologies of statism, atomistic individualism, and sexual revolution challenge the very essences of marriage and family. Recent legal and public [...]
Jennie Chancey | April 14, 2012
From Mariette Ulrich at Mercatornet: Raising kids is not a Sunday stroll in the park, but if you never get there, whose fault is it? Very few families of my acquaintance do not occasionally lament that they are too busy, over-involved, stressed to the max. It was partly for this reason that my husband and [...]
Jennie Chancey | April 9, 2012
From Carolyn Moynihan at Mercatornet: Is puberty before the age of 10 a “new normal” for girls? asks a long article in the New York Times magazine…. Girls who from an early age grow up in homes without their biological fathers are twice as likely to go into puberty younger as girls who grow up [...]
Jennie Chancey | March 24, 2012
As the 100th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic approaches, it’s important to remember the Christian worldview that motivated the majority of the men on board, who gave their lives that others might live. It’s not popular or politically correct to say it, but manhood that defends women and children should be celebrated and remembered. [...]
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 [...]
