The empty European village
"It Takes a Village to Raise a Child," was Hillary Clinton’s Big Idea in the 1990s. Hillary’s supporters and detractors alike regard that slogan as a thinly-veiled code for increasing…
Thanks for supporting family values, but what about the family?
If strong, intact, loving families are so important, why don’t politicians have them, too? Of all the issues facing the two American presidential candidates — Iraq, the economy, health care,…
Italian film festival has family focus
A new type of film festival will be launched at the end of July when families, celebrities, officials and film aficionados gather at Fiuggi in Italy for the first edition…
U.S. campaign to Promote Abstinence Begins
Encouraging sexual abstinence among teenagers is receiving a boost in the United States from a national campaign, called Parents For Truth, aimed at enlisting the support of one million parents.…
Experimenting with children’s sexual identity!
Gender benders are consigning more and more disturbed children to the path of sex change on the basis of a shaky philosophy. Adolescents, by definition, are immature people. Once, the…
Collapsed schools: a preventable tragedy
One of the most heart-rending results of the devastating May 12 earthquake in China has been the deaths of thousands of children in collapsed schools. More than 13,000 schools in…
IT’S NOT BIRTH CONTROL, IT’S ANTI-NATALISM
"It’s not TV, it’s birth control!" trumpets NBC Television’s home page for The Baby Borrowers, a new reality show in which five teenage "couples" will pretend to be parents. A…
The pain of watching children die!
The father of an 11-year-old Canadian boy with leukemia wants to stop his painful treatment. The doctors say No. Who’s right? Decisions about medical treatment for critically ill children open…
Abortion harms your mental health
It is being hailed in Britain as a major breakthrough in professional attitudes to abortion. Last weekend the Royal College of Psychiatrists issued a statement acknowledging that induced abortion may…
Girls, unprotected
The insertion of long-acting contraceptives into the bodies of young girls does not protect them from sexual abuse. It sets them up for greater exploitation. Reports continue to grow worldwide…
YOUNG BRITS ASPIRE TO MARRIAGE BUT GOVT WON’T HELP
Most young people in Britain want to get married and the main reason is very encouraging: they want to make a commitment. That’s what a survey commissioned by think tank…
END MARRIAGE PENALTY FOR POOR!
People on welfare benefits in the United States stand to lose 10 to 20 per cent of their income straight off if they get married, and this could discourage more…