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		<title>Are we free to speak about parenting research?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/18/are-we-free-to-speak-about-parenting-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/18/are-we-free-to-speak-about-parenting-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Carolyn Moynihan It’s difficult today to say anything in favour of the intact, married family without putting somebody’s nose out of joint. Last week it was a blogger at the LBGT site ThinkProgress who took umbrage at a comment by Focus on the Family’s Glenn Stanton. I’ll let Mr Stanton tell you how from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A noisy week for parenting studies</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/18/a-noisy-week-for-parenting-studies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/18/a-noisy-week-for-parenting-studies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10012</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all this week, there was a big (about 5,000 observations) sophisticated (University of Chicago Business School) study of bad behavior in little boys. Conclusion: little boys benefit substantially from living with both their biological parents. The second study was a little (78 observations) simplistic (unrepresentative sample, ideologically motivated researchers) of the Quality of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s wrong with lesbian parenting studies</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/17/what-undecided-voters-on-tv-and-the-parade-of-artificial-insemination-studies-have-in-common/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/17/what-undecided-voters-on-tv-and-the-parade-of-artificial-insemination-studies-have-in-common/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10007</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Worley, First year law student at J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, and a 2011 graduate of the Ruth Institute It Takes a Family to Raise a Village program. It is common knowledge that TV reports don’t tell the whole story.  Frequently a group of 75 undecided voters gather to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Kids Need a Mom and a Dad? The University of Chicago biz school study</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/12/do-kids-need-a-mom-and-a-dad-the-university-of-chicago-biz-school-study/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/12/do-kids-need-a-mom-and-a-dad-the-university-of-chicago-biz-school-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Single Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tactics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=9973</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I discussed a Life-Style Leftist blogman’s outraged response to a perfectly reasonable statement about a very sound study, and analyzed the rhetorical strategy of accusing your opponent of saying  something he didn’t say. In this post, I want to talk about the substance of the study, what it shows and what it doesn’t. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As I was saying&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/06/as-i-was-saying/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/06/as-i-was-saying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parental Rights]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=9918</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Family Research Council has caught up with the Ruth Institute. I shouldn&#8217;t gloat, but the big DC-Beltway Think Tank has just discovered the Presumption of Paternity. Out here in San Diego, as far from the Beltway as you can get and still be in the Continental US, we have been saying this stuff, literally, for years: Same-sex [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does raising kids decrease marital happiness?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/12/13/does-raising-kids-decrease-marital-happiness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/12/13/does-raising-kids-decrease-marital-happiness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Carolyn Moynihan In the last post on the new State of Our Unions (SOU) report from the National Marriage Project we read that “the benefits of generosity were particularly pronounced among couples with children”. Parents who were very generous with each other were more likely to be very happy as well. But there’s more. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parent 1 and Parent 2</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/12/05/parent-1-and-parent-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gay lobby]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=9666</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Passports in the UK will no longer list Mother and Father on a child&#8217;s passport.  Only Parent 1 and Parent 2 will be listed. Documents seen by the Daily Mail suggest the change was made as a result of lobbying by the gay rights group Stonewall. The Home Office Diversity Strategy’ states: ‘IPS [the Identity and Passport [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To help kids, help their parents</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/25/to-help-kids-help-their-parents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/25/to-help-kids-help-their-parents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morality]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=9590</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Carolyn Moynihan A leading British headmistress is worried that it is not just today&#8217;s schoolchildren who lack values and good standards of behaviour but also their parents. Dr Helen Wright, president of the Girls&#8217; Schools Association (GSA), does not blame the parents because she believes they themselves were failed by the education system at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Same sex adoption is not a game</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/25/same-sex-adoption-is-not-a-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/25/same-sex-adoption-is-not-a-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[same sex parenting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Rick Fitzgibbons Allowing same sex couples to adopt children deprives them of a mother or a father and subjects them to a dangerous social experiment. Moves by legislators and homosexual activists to endorse same sex adoption are misguided. Their intentions may be good, but they are ignoring the rights of children and important social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parental rights, schools and rival moral visions</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/24/parental-rights-schools-and-rival-moral-visions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/24/parental-rights-schools-and-rival-moral-visions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=9075</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Sheila Liaugminas In the public schools, parents are losing more rights with more frequency these days. The California school system has been in the news a lot in recent months for its change in curriculum to make it not only gay-friendly, but featured. …California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB 48, which dictates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I never should have had eight children</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/22/why-i-never-should-have-had-eight-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/22/why-i-never-should-have-had-eight-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=9014</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Leila Miller October 21, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) &#8211; A few months back, I told my readers on my blog how to raise eight children without even trying. Today, I’m going to tell you why I never should have had eight children in the first place: had I listened to the devil and modern conventional wisdom, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, conscience… Hello? Are you in there?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/20/oh-conscience%e2%80%a6-hello-are-you-in-there/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/20/oh-conscience%e2%80%a6-hello-are-you-in-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=8989</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the car the other day, my seven-year-old asked if she had a conscience.  I told her, “Yes,” and then slowly asked, “Why?” “Because,” she replied. “I wasn’t sure, so I decided to test it&#8230;&#8221; Keep reading.]]></description>
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		<title>Snappy Answers for Stupid Questions About Your Big Family</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/16/snappy-answers-for-stupid-questions-about-your-big-family/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/16/snappy-answers-for-stupid-questions-about-your-big-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Babies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=8929</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Simcha Fisher Guess what? I’m having a baby. Yes, another baby. Why? Because once you find something you’re good at, you stick with it. Congratulations are welcome! Comments of “Die now, mindless breeder” will be dealt with appropriately. My baby, God willing, is not going anywhere, whether you approve of this pregnancy or not; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One parent or five?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/07/one-parent-or-five/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/07/one-parent-or-five/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Carolyn Moynihan Most couples who marry, even today, probably intend to have one or two children at least. Marriage and the baby carriage (as family scholar Brad Wilcox likes to pair them) have always gone together. But this is not what is meant by the new catch-phrase “intentional parenthood”. A report out today (golly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awh, isn’t he a dear?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/06/awh-isn%e2%80%99t-he-a-dear/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/06/awh-isn%e2%80%99t-he-a-dear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=8887</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From Parentingisfunny.wordpress.com. When my son was about 2 1/2, he became aware, from listening to his siblings or hearing things on TV, of what we call bad words, like “shut up”, “stupid,” and “jerk.”  So one day when we were in the check out line at the grocery store, Keep reading.]]></description>
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		<title>Kids want to hear about life and love from parents</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/04/kids-want-to-hear-about-life-and-love-from-parents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/04/kids-want-to-hear-about-life-and-love-from-parents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parental Rights]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=8851</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Carolyn Moynihan There was an uproar in New Zealand recently about sex education when a father told the NZ Herald he had pulled his son out of sex education because the teacher had told his class that anal and oral sex were alternatives to intercourse and that it was okay to play with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t drink the Kool-Aid</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/04/dont-drink-the-kool-aid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/10/04/dont-drink-the-kool-aid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Marcia Segelstein In the not too distant past, traditionalists theorized that when it came to raising children, the answer was to retreat from the world.  Use private or parochial schools.  Or even better, homeschool.  Raise up a generation of kids who would change the world by trying to raise them outside the world. To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education isn&#8217;t what it used to be</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/28/education-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/28/education-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another installment from Parentingisfunny. When my daughter started first grade, I asked her if she was enjoying school. After her answer to the affirmative, I inquired what she liked most. “Recess” was her response. I pointed out that she has “recess” at home all the time, so why was that her favorite? Finally she declared: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex survey now a standardized test for youngsters</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/21/sex-survey-now-a-standardized-test-for-youngsters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bob Kellogg Beginning next spring, fifth-, eighth-, and tenth-grade students in the DC schools will take a 50-question sexual education standardized test. But Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council (FRC) says that is raising some concerns. &#8220;Bringing it to the level of actually having standardized testing means that not only will students be given this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey! Giving birth over here!</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/19/hey-giving-birth-over-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s your second installment from the parentingisfunny.wordpress.com blog. When I was in labor at the hospital, O.J. Simpson was driving his white Bronco down a long stretch of highway, being chased by police cars and helicopters. Footage of this was on the TV in the delivery room. All the adults standing in the room were [...]]]></description>
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