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A proposed law in Oregon would allow children beginning at age 15 to obtain hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery without parental consent or notification, according to a prominent ethicist.

Parents today are caught between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, allowing kids online means exposure to content that threatens their mental health and their innocence. On the other hand, removing online access threatens to socially isolate kids from their friends and peer groups. What are parents to do?

The culture may have forgotten the meaning of marriage, but Christian families don’t have to follow suit.

So says author and theologian Sam Allberry, whose new children’s book, God’s Signpost, helps parents teach their youngsters the biblical definition of marriage. With colorful illustrations, the 32-page book follows two siblings, Ethan and Lila, as they attend their grandparents’ 50th wedding anniversary. The two kids learn that marriage is a “signpost” pointing to God’s love.

An adorable girl turned into Little Miss Complainer during a hike with her parents, making it clear she was NOT happy about their trek through the woods. And listening to her animated protests is just too funny!

About 15 years ago, sociologists coined the term “abusive boyfriend syndrome” to describe the increased risk to children who live in homes with an unrelated adult. According to numerous studies, these children were much more likely to be abused or even killed than children who live at home with two biological or married parents. Because of these findings, domestic violence prevention programs routinely teach parents, especially vulnerable women, that the single highest risk factor that they or their children will be abused is whether they’re living with an unrelated, unmarried adult.

God designed family in a specific way. The biological reality, that one man and one woman are required to make a child, points to the social reality, which is that children do best with a mom and a dad. This neither makes abuse inevitable for children in other arrangements, nor does it suggest that biological parents never abuse. In fact, child abuse can become tragically epidemic within certain cultures and families.

A missing child in Australia was found safe and sound after vanishing for more than two weeks. And the Cleo Smith story is like something out of a movie!

True events like the Cleo Smith story rarely have happy endings. But the rescue of this precious girl is nothing short of a miracle!

A parental watchdog is sounding the alarm on popular teen-centric TV series and warning parents that Netflix and Amazon are pushing content to children that deserves an R-rating.

Earlier this month, retired Marine Roy Link helped rescue 2-year-old JJ Rowland after he got lost in the woods.

Bestselling author Karen Kingsbury says too many of today’s children’s books include themes that aren’t appropriate for kids and that her newest book does just the opposite by reminding children that “God made you who you are.”

Police in Uganda have arrested two people in connection with the kidnapping of 40 Christian children lured by a Muslim posing as the leader of a Christian charity offering free education, sources said.