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Family Isn't Fake

Family Isn't Fake

Family is not merely a “name.” G.K. Chesterton called the family a “triangle of truisms,” with the three sides of father, mother, and child. “The love of man and woman is not an institution that can be abolished, or a contract that can be terminated,” he wrote. “It is something older than all institutions or contracts, and something that is certain to outlast them all.”

No, Kids Don’t Cost That Much: Cultural Priorities and Parenting Sticker Shock

No, Kids Don’t Cost That Much: Cultural Priorities and Parenting Sticker Shock

Grocery store remarks can reveal a lot about a culture. Just ask any mother or father of more than 1.7 children about the comments that strangers somehow feel free to make about their unfashionably large broods. These comments reveal what more and more data is also showing. A lower percentage of Westerners, including Americans, are embarking on parenthood than ever before. However, these comments also betray how we think about children: as burdens, impositions on freedom, or so very, very expensive that only the wealthy can afford them.

California Mom Says She ‘Found a New Life and a New Meaning of Purpose’ in Having 12 Children

California Mom Says She ‘Found a New Life and a New Meaning of Purpose’ in Having 12 Children

A California woman who has spent 16 years of the past two decades pregnant with 12 children said she believes children are “a blessing.”

Brother Jumped in to Free Sister from Shark, Now Family Leans on God as She Fights to Recover

Brother Jumped in to Free Sister from Shark, Now Family Leans on God as She Fights to Recover

In late June 17-year-old Addison Bethea was bitten in the leg by a shark while searching for scallops near Keaton Beach, Florida. Her brother, and firefighter and EMT, jumped in to save her life.

Do We Get to Choose Our Families?

Do We Get to Choose Our Families?

Part of the beauty of biological families is that they are not chosen. In essence, they are built around obligation, a duty to the other, not merely as a means of self-fulfillment. By contrast, if we can opt into a group of friends, we can just as easily opt-out.

Tony and Lauren Dungy Have Fostered 100 Children: They're 'in Crisis' and 'Need a Home'

Tony and Lauren Dungy Have Fostered 100 Children: They're 'in Crisis' and 'Need a Home'

Pro Football Hall of Fame Coach Tony Dungy and his wife Lauren told NBC's Today Show this week that they have fostered more than 100 children thanks to a decision they made to never turn away a child in need.

Parents Group: Stranger Things Needs TV-MA Rating due to 'Shocking' Increase in Graphic Content

Parents Group: <em>Stranger Things</em> Needs TV-MA Rating due to 'Shocking' Increase in Graphic Content

The Parents Television Council is urging Netflix to change the rating on Stranger Things from TV-14 to TV-MA due to a 700 percent increase in graphic violence and the frequent use of the f-word in Season 4, saying parents cannot “do their job effectively” if series are wrongly labeled.

Parents Win Appeal, Are Granted New Hearing to Stop Removal of Son's Life Support

Parents Win Appeal, Are Granted New Hearing to Stop Removal of Son's Life Support

On Wednesday, a court in the United Kingdom ruled that the parents of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee can appeal a court ruling ordering a London hospital to discontinue their son's life support.

Washington Post Story Unintentionally Makes 'Amazing Pro-Life Argument,' Pro-Life Activists Say

<em>Washington Post</em> Story Unintentionally Makes 'Amazing Pro-Life Argument,' Pro-Life Activists Say

A recent Washington Post story that was intended to turn readers against Texas' heartbeat abortion ban actually did the opposite by presenting powerful pro-life arguments, several pro-life activists say.