This article by Dr. Byron Johnson comes from the First Things website. It was published in the August 2011 edition. You have to have a subscription to get the full story, but here is some of it below.
Dr. Morse will be interviewing Dr. Byron Johnson Monday, November 7, from 7-8 pm PST on AM 1000 KCEO, or you can listen live on the Internet at www.catholicradioofsandiego.com. Read more…
Tonight Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse will interview Dr. Peggy Hartshorn, the President of Heartbeat International, from 6-7 pm PST. Then, from 7-8 pm PST, Dr. Morse will interview Dr. Byron Johnson, a Professor of the Social Sciences and Director of the Institute for Studies of Religion as well as director of the Program on Pro-social Behavior, both at Baylor University. Read more…
More good news. Praise God we are heading in the right direction.
by Carolyn Moynihan
On the Family Scholars blog, David Lapp draws attention to official figures showing that the proportion of teenagers having sex has dropped over the past two decades or so. He writes: Read more…
Cardinal Hall at Catholic University of America, Brookland neighborhood, Washington. Another school year is in full swing. Frat houses around the country are once again swollen with partygoers and intoxicated youth. Sunday mornings once again mark the regret of thousands of young women who hooked-up the night prior and either cannot remember what they did, or do remember and are trying to forget. Read more…
Ayman Nabil Labib, a 17-year-old Coptic Christian student, was murdered by Muslim classmates after refusing to remove a crucifix he was wearing, the Assyrian International News Agency is reporting. Read more…
by Charlie Butts
Gardasil, a vaccine used to inoculate young girls against a form of cervical cancer, is now being recommended for boys ages 11 to 12. Some sources consider that to be a bad idea and not cost-effective. Read more…
by Thomas Sowell
Back in the 1920s, the intelligentsia on both sides of the Atlantic were loudly protesting the execution of political radicals Sacco and Vanzetti, after what they claimed was an unfair trial. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote to his young leftist friend Harold Laski, pointing out that there were “a thousand-fold worse cases” involving black defendants, “but the world does not worry over them.” Read more…
by Carolyn Moynihan
Pressure and lack of self control lead teens in developing countries to regret sex, a new study shows.
Next week a British television channel begins the second series of a show called “The Joy of Teen Sex”. The programme promises “A bold, informative look at the love lives and sex lives of teenagers that tells it like it really is, and is definitely not just for teens.” Not justfor teens? Is a show with such a misleading title useful for teens at all? Read more…
by Kevin Ryan
Teaching virtues to school children is only one part of handing on our moral heritage.
Two decades ago Harvard historian, Richard Hunt, coined the phrase, “no-fault history”, reportedly based on his experience teaching undergraduates his course on modern German history. In discussing the extermination policies and other unspeakable evil decisions of Hitler and his Nazi henchmen, Hunt’s undergraduates could not bring themselves to judge them as evil. “How can we judge Hitler?” they asked. “We don’t know how his parents treated him. Hitler was a victim of his own background, his conditioning. We don’t know the whole story. How can we say an individual is evil? Who are we to judge?” Who indeed? Read more…
by Becky Yeh
A pro-family leader is calling on California’s governor to veto a dangerous bill that he and other family advocates believe undermines parental authority and the safety of children.
Governor Jerry Brown has several days to decide on the fate of AB 499, a bill that would allow minors as young as 12 years of age to consent to “medical care related to the prevention of a sexually transmitted disease.” The bill, introduced by Assemblywoman Toni Atkins (D), would allow children to agree to vaccines and treatments without the consent of parents, including the vaccine Gardasil. Read more…
September 8th, 2011
Ginny
An urban high school teacher in Connecticut talks about unwed motherhood, fatherlessness, and how it affects the kids in his classroom.
by Gerry Garibaldi
…Here’s my prediction: the money, the reforms, the gleaming porcelain, the hopeful rhetoric about saving our children—all of it will have a limited impact, at best, on most city schoolchildren. Urban teachers face an intractable problem, one that we cannot spend or even teach our way out of: teen pregnancy. This year, all of my favorite girls are pregnant, four in all, future unwed mothers every one. There will be no innovation in this quarter, no race to the top. Personal moral accountability is the electrified rail that no politician wants to touch… Read more…
Categories: Children, Demography, Economics, family, fathers, Marriage, motherhood, popular culture, Pregnancy, Single Parents, Teenagers Tags: Children, family, fathers, gay marriage, motherhood, Parenting, Teenagers
September 7th, 2011
Betsy
by Marcia Segelstein
Laura Ingraham, in her new book, Of Thee I Zing, describes being awakened from such a reverie while shopping in a mall one day. Suddenly things came into sharp focus: teenage girls in jeans that looked like they’d been painted on, teenage boys checking to be sure their boxer shorts showed above their pants, an explicit Victoria’s Secret window display, a child screaming for a ZhuZhu pet, people walking around trance-like staring at various electronic devices in their hands, nobody really noticing anybody else. And she wondered how we reached this point. Read more…
September 3rd, 2011
Betsy
by Patrick F. Fagan, Ph.D. and Scott Talkington, Ph.D.
Dr. Fagan is senior fellow and director of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute (MARRI) at Family Research Council.
The 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth shows that students who now worship weekly and who grew up with two married parents are most likely to have received a high school degree. Read more…
by Michael Cook
Who cares if the media ignored World Youth Day?
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by Sheila Liaugminas
We’d best pay attention to what’s really at the root of this violence and anarchy. It’s not just about Britain.
But that’s where the symptoms of social decay are vividly manifest at the moment. This article says a police shooting sparked the riots, just about everyone now blames a larger ‘system’. They’re just competing visions of which systems are culpable for the breakdown. Read more…
by Joanna Bogle
Will the mayhem in British cities this week finally convince doubters that family structure matters?
No structure to life, no moral values, no father, little or no ability to read and write, a passion for consumer goods fuelled by an upbringing focused on the fulfilment of immediate needs – all this plus physical strength, ferocious anger, and commitment to a strong gang – it all makes rioting a good way to spend a summer evening. Read more…
By Maggie Gallagher, Chairman of the National Organization for Marriage
John Garvey, the new President of Catholic University, announced last week that the university will return to single sex dorms. Many feathers were ruffled. It is a measure of the unisex madness in which we have become enmeshed that a Catholic university’s decision to house unmarried young men and women in separate dorms could be described as “controversial.” Read more…
by Mary Rice Hasson
How can life get better for sexually confused young people if they cut themselves off from their families and abandon themselves to sex?
For LGBT teens who face adversity and intolerance…There’s no place in society for hatred and bullying…You have an amazing future in front of you…
And an entire community in your corner…We promise you. It gets better. Read more…
by Carolyn Moynihan
A professor of sociology wrote a week or so ago in the New York Timesthat American family life might be much improved if parents in the US were more like those in the Netherlands who — typically, it is implied — allow their teenage daughters to have their boyfriends sleep over in the family home, or sons to have their girlfriends do the same. Read more…
by Francois Jacob
The UN wants young people to change the world. In Madrid the Pope will ask them to change themselves.
Today, a thousand or so youth activists from around the world gather at the United Nations headquarters in New York for a high level meeting on the theme of “dialogue and mutual understanding”. The two-day UN youth summitmarks the culmination of an international Year of Youth that began last August and ends on the annual UN World Youth Day, August 12th. Read more…
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