We here at the Ruth Institute have been saying for quite some time that Artificial Insemination technology can and will be used to push men out of families, and in so doing increase fatherlessness.
It almost boggles the mind that there is any dispute about this proposition. Witness the strange and unexpected changes in the law that Kay Hymowitz documents in this article:
Unfortunately, in the absence of any other authority, answering these questions has fallen to family court judges, who are—and I mean no disrespect—not always the sort you’d expect to be on the short list for the Louis Brandeis Award for Cautious Jurisprudence. Read more…
Something a little light-hearted; plus, it makes sense!
Click here to watch this video featuring famous big family members. It cracks me up that many of these “big families” contain only three members, and that they show Mother Teresa a few frames before Madonna as though they were on equal footing, but I get their point. And I dig the song that comes with the video.
by Kamilah Thorpe
Don’t you love this video? It really puts some perspective to big families and the greatness that can come from them. Being from a large family myself, I was excited to get this post submission from a fellow oldest child. Kamilah has taken the lessons she learned in her family and has transferred those to the college scene, finding more than one similarity. Here’s what she has to day on the matter… Read more…
Carolyn Moynihan, Mercatornet.com
Do your children make you happy? When different researchers ask parents questions like that they tend to get contradictory results. The latest issue of the Journal of Happiness Studies reports on a British study that finds having children does increase the happiness of married couples; in fact the more kids they have, the happier these couples are. Read more…
Do countries with sub-replacement fertility need
more government support, or less?
First Published June 6, 2008 at MercatorNet.com.
“It Takes a Village to Raise a Child,” was Hillary Clinton’s Big Idea in the 1990s. Hillary’s supporters and detractors alike regard that slogan as a thinly-veiled code for increasing the government’s responsibility for the care of children. The demographic decline of Europe illustrates what would happen if we took this Village-Raising-Children image seriously.
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