Easter is always about dying and rising
The Resurrection, 1596-1600Easter is always about death and resurrection – and down the centuries countless people must have applied its message to their own lives, their own circumstances. I have…
You’re teaching my child what?
A psychatrist exposes the harm done to children in the name of sex education. The following is an interview with Miriam Grossman, MD, author of the recently-released You’re teaching…
A marriage proposal
Leading marriage scholars have come up with an index for monitoring the health of marriage in society. Spring has sprung in the southern hemisphere and the wedding season is…
Raining on their parade
Who is responsible for China’s infamous one-child policy? Surprisingly, it is not 60 years of Communist rule. Today China celebrates the 60th anniversary of Communist Party rule. The Party…
Russia looks to its religious culture
The Orthodox Church has won its battle to make religious education compulsory in schools, but secularists have won concessions too. Patriarch Kirill’s public triumph in Ukraine in July was…
Parents wonder if cancer jabs are worth the risk
Debate over vaccinating girls against the human papillomavirus to prevent cervical cancer is running hot in Britain after a 14-year-old schoolgirl died and an older teen developed epileptic seizures and…
Working mums have less healthy kids
Last night on New Zealand television the British female lead of the live show Mamma Mia! joked about how she went to work to get away from her four young…
China’s stolen babies
Girl babies adopted by American and other overseas couples from orphanages in China in recent years may have been forcibly taken from their parents, not abandoned, as the adoptive parents…
Stand Up and Pray: The Blaspheming of the Sacred Must End – Catholic Online
Stand Up and Pray: The Blaspheming of the Sacred Must End – Catholic Online Shared via AddThis
Raising boys for fun and profit
There are things parents can do to help their sons make the leap from stumbling boyhood to manhood. Okay, I was kidding about the fun. And, I was lying about…
The spiritual world of children
News that the spiritual welfare of young children is being neglected somewhere will not surprise anyone, but the evidence adduced by a British researcher produced an eye-catching headline in the…
Parenting pathways
If your parents were negative and harsh with you growing up, that’s the way you will be with your kids. And if they were positive and affectionate, well, lucky for…