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Jennie Chancey | December 7, 2011
What is the enduring legacy of Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique? First, Friedan helped destroy the American family – driving a wedge between husband and wife by demonizing the position of housewives as domestic slaves and grossly romanticizing working outside the home. Friedan’s hagiographic biographer Daniel Horowitz even noted that Friedan offered a distorted vision of [...]
Jennie Chancey | December 6, 2011
This is an excellent piece that digs down to the fundamentals. We get a lot of funny comments from readers who think we believe women are inferior, must kowtow to all men, should remain uneducated, etc., etc., ad nauseum. Here’s the plain truth, demonstrating that the shoe is (sadly) on the other foot in our [...]
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 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 | October 13, 2011
From the Washington Post’s On Faith blog: Sociologists often speak of how generations are shaped by what they are denied. The millennial generation has seen and felt the heartbreak surrounding divorce. Many of us were denied a stable home environment, so we struggle with commitment — not out of rebellion, but simply because we did [...]
Jennifer McBride | October 11, 2011
I am thrilled to announce the completion of a book project that has spanned the past four years! Queen of the Home: Essays, Poetry and Quotes on the Honor, Power and Nobility of Biblical Womanhood is now available from Vision Forum! In past generations, the role of wife and mother was viewed as a sacred [...]
Jennie Chancey | September 30, 2011
From Jon Mitchell at Mercatornet: Secret infidelity within marriage is dishonest. On that, there is widespread agreement. But the prevailing question in our culture today seems to be whether monogamy itself is dishonest about human desire and personal fulfilment. To think of monogamy as dishonest is to miss the point. Monogamy is in fact an [...]
Jennie Chancey | September 17, 2011
This one left us reeling. It has to be seen to be believed. From Doug Phillips’s blog: The eugenic mindset is this—when people become a burden or when they don’t meet the standard approved by the elite for human acceptability, simply dispose of them. The eugenic mindset plays upon the fears and selfishness of individuals. [...]
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 17, 2011
Another piece from the Daily Mail: Instead of pouring our energies into organising a wedding, we put heart and soul into building our lives together. We developed successful careers, bought a lovely home in London, made good friends and had happy children. On the surface, we had the perfect life. Marriage or no marriage. In [...]
Jennie Chancey | September 6, 2011
There’s a thought-provoking piece over on Mercatornet about people choosing to divorce because they “fell out of love”: The news that “falling out of love” is now the number one reason for divorce in the UK stirred a memory in me of the late Sir Harry Secombe, singing in the voice of his Goon Show [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 27, 2011
Carolyn Moynihan chimes in on the birth control issue with this excellent piece: Forty years ago modern contraception was sold to women as part of a liberation package: at last they would be in control of their fertility and their lives. The pill was their passport to fewer children, economic independence and, as it soon [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 25, 2011
From Carolyn Moynihan at Mercatornet: Asian marriage is in the news, with The Economist reporting on “the flight from marriage” in that part of the world and the London Telegraph noting the materialism which is delaying marriages in China. As we saw last week, divorce is booming in China. But young urban women are also [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 23, 2011
From Carolyn Moynihan at Mercatornet: With cohabitation replacing marriage, divorce is receding as a cause of family breakdown, but it remains a serious problem. An article in the Washington Times cites US Census Bureau survey figures indicating that there were well over a million divorces in American in 2008 (1,087,920) giving a divorce rate of [...]
Jennie Chancey | August 23, 2011
From Mariette Ulrich at Mercatornet: When I saw ads for the recently released Friends with Benefits, I thought I was experiencing déjà vu. Wasn’t that film released last year? Why no, the movie I had in mind was different, and it was titled No Strings Attached. Well, not entirely different; same frivolous treatment of self-centred [...]
