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There’s always another choice

May 11th, 2013 Comments off

by Anne Ponton

A Texas mother remembers how doctors struggled to save her premature twin daughters.

With the media full of the horror of Kermit Gosnell’s Philadelphia abortion mill, we might forget how hard parents fight to make sure that their children survive. This is one mother’s story.

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Is the one-child policy spoiling China’s children?

April 12th, 2013 Comments off

by Michael Cook

Research confirms all the cliches about “little emperors”, the children of parents who were forced to stop at one.

“Kids these days are spoiled rotten,” grumbles the director of a Beijing kindergarten. “They have no social skills. They expect instant gratification. They’re attended to hand and foot by adults so protective that if the child as much as stumbles, the whole family will curse the ground.” Read more…

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The truth about big families

April 3rd, 2013 Comments off

by Clare Horsfall

The Sydney Morning Herald recently reported that “less than 2 per cent of Australian women have six or more children.” Well, I must know so many of that two per cent.

I know families of 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and a few with an even dozen. Whenever there is a movie about big families you always see children hanging from fans, piles of horrible food and a mum on the edge of a breakdown. Perhaps that’s why the general public feel they can be so rude to those with a brood. I come from a family of six and my Mum was often asked by strangers: “Why didn’t you buy a television?”, “How do you remember their names?” , or just told “You poor thing!” Read more…

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Knot Yet: putting the baby carriage before marriage

March 22nd, 2013 Comments off

by Barbara Ray

One in two mothers in America is now having a baby then marrying later, if at all.

A profound shift is happening in America. Somewhere around 2000, the country quietly reached a tipping point: women, in a trend driven largely by “middle-American” women, collectively began putting the baby carriage before marriage.

In fact, for women on the whole, the age of first birth is now 25.7 while the age at first marriage is 26.5.

Let that sink in a moment. Read more…

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Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring

March 21st, 2013 Comments off

by Marcus Roberts

A couple of articles today about China’s one-child policy.  RT News has reported the staggering figures and cost of the communist regime’s policy over the last 40 years: Read more…

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What to Expect When No One’s Expecting

March 21st, 2013 Comments off

by Jennifer Roback Morse

At last, a book on demography that talks about its relation to sexual culture.

I was talking with a Catholic college student who is enrolled in a graduate level demography class on fertility at a major state university.  She said that when her classmates make snarky remarks about “those Catholics” and their large families, the whole class nods knowingly in agreement. Read more…

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Gushing over the Royal Fetus

December 27th, 2012 Comments off

By: Eric Metaxas

The battle over human dignity is waged not just at the local abortion clinic or crisis pregnancy center, nor merely in the halls of Congress or the Supreme Court. It is also carried out in our choice of words.

The war on the sanctity of human life relies on bullets of deception and warheads of untruth—in short, on what George Orwell called “political language,” which he said “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” Read more…

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Vladimir Putin calls on Russian families to have three children

December 12th, 2012 Comments off

President Vladimir Putin has urged Russians to have at least three children as he said a resurgent nation should be a confident and “influential” power on the world stage.

Vladimir Putin earlier this month rejected an offer from Barack Obama for landmark bilateral talks at the White House, the Kremlin has claimed.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin Photo: AP

By Tom Parfitt, Moscow

In a bullish state-of-the-nation address in Moscow on Wednesday, Mr Putin promised to smite corruption, create millions of new jobs and boost Russia’s military might while warning that foreign meddling in the country’s internal affairs was unacceptable. Read more…

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How to value a child

December 3rd, 2012 Comments off

by Mary Cooney

Putting a price on the head of your potential child is applying the wrong set of values altogether.

My husband and I are millionaires. Or at least we ought to be. According to a recent New York Times article The Cost, in Dollars, of Raising a Child “would run close to $2 million by the time it was all over.” So, with five children in the nest, we must either be extravagantly wealthy or utterly broke. That’s according to the Times. Read more…

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Poor Economy Continues to Depress US Birth Rates

October 11th, 2012 Comments off

by SBrinkmann

A new government report reveals that U.S. births fell in 2011 for the fourth straight year, although the decline was just one percent, less than the two to three percent drop seen in recent years. Read more…

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