This Week’s Featured Article

Marriage/Family

IS CHILDHOOD TRAUMA IMPACTING YOUR MARRIAGE?

Healthy responses create better decisions for a healthier relationship. Sometimes the healthy decision is to seek professional tools as my friend did for her situation. Making good choices does not always mean your life will calm down, because you can only control yourself, your attitudes, and your actions. You cannot control anyone else. As you continue to respond rather than react, you set a stronger life path for yourself and your marriage. Read more

No, cohabitation is still not a good preparation for marriage

Upwards of 70 percent of people marrying now have already cohabited with their spouse, and often another (or other) partner(s).The majority of people think that’s fine. Many even think that, given high divorce rates, it is good to test-drive your life partner by living with them first, that it makes for a stronger marriage.But, sorry, that’s misinformation. Read more

Why Are We Ignoring Family as a Solution to Loneliness?

S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy rolled out a new advisory on “our epidemic of loneliness.” The document argues that “Americans appear to be becoming less socially connected over time,” states that this trend has negative consequences for individuals and communities, and offers a number of solutions meant to boost connectedness. Read more

Parenting/Parental Rights

Speaking the truth about motherhood and marriage

In the UN world, Mother’s Day has been controversial for a couple of decades, with the radical compliance committee of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), back in the early 2000s, telling the country of Belarus to get rid of Mother’s Day because it perpetuated “negative stereotypes” and Armenia to combat the stereotype of “women in the noble role of mother.” But the same anti-motherhood feminist nonsense has gone mainstream, particularly in the corporate world. Read more

May Is For Mothers

When motherhood came under attack by the feminist culture of the 1970s, suddenly women all over the plant felt that it was time to bring the power of motherhood to the discussion table again. Women flocked to the United Nations and social events to articulate the power motherhood just as other women tried to gain public platforms to tear down motherhood and dishonor the impact a good mother has on all of our lives. Even though mothers aren’t fighting back, because they truly don’t have the time or the stomach for battles, the battle against motherhood that has been waging for quite some time has now become more intense. Mothers are now even considered to be obstacles to get around for powers who hope to capture the hearts and minds of the children. Read more

First British baby with DNA from three people is born after IVF procedure

The first baby born in the United Kingdom with DNA from three parents was born after doctors performed a revolutionary IVF procedure designed to prevent rare but dangerous mitochondrial diseases.

The news that “less than five” children have been born in the U.K. through this process as of late April was first reported by The Guardian. This is the first time the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has confirmed any children in the country being born through this process. The HFEA avoided disclosing the exact number of babies to protect privacy. Read more

Sanctity of Life

Senate Testimony: Abortion Does Not Help Mothers

Dr. Wubbenhorst, who has served women around the world, including in the poorest settings, pointed out that the purpose of abortion is to terminate the life of the unborn child, and “neither prevents, treats, or palliates any disease.” Read more

Should young women surrender their fertility?

For at least the past 50 years, women have been told by feminists, pop culture, corporate culture, and sexual activists that their ability to bear children is a curse.

They’ve been told that becoming pregnant oppresses, sidelines, and enslaves them. They’ve been told that escaping pregnancy and exterminating their children is their human right. They’ve been told they should “shout their abortions” from the rooftops. They’ve been convinced to medicate their healthy bodies with hormonal treatments each month to avoid having children. They’ve been told that any other choice is better than motherhood and that only people who want to “waste their lives” choose motherhood over other pursuits. Read more

Choosing Life Over An Abortion Pill Was The Best Choice I Ever Made

Don’t believe what people tell you when they say abortion is harmless and that it’s the only solution to your problems. The truth is, when you are pregnant, you are carrying a little human child. As a mother, you deserve to meet that baby, and that baby deserves to live. You do have a choice — and choosing life was the absolute best choice I’ve ever made. Read more

Sexuality

Australian insurance company to restrict cover for doctors who perform child ‘sex changes’

The move has the potential to undermine aggressive efforts by Federal and State governments to silence any opposition to the ‘gender transitioning’ of children. Read more

LifeSite launches map tracking wave of laws against transgender mutilation in the US

Despite massive risks and lack of government approval, transgender interventions for children have exploded in popularity in recent years as LGBT ideology has increasingly permeated American culture.

Data shows that tens of thousands of adolescents have been subjected to transgender surgeries or drugs in the U.S. in the past few years. The annual number of children undergoing some kind of “transition” may now be more than 30,000, including potentially thousands of underage girls subjected to mastectomies each year. Read more

Hungarian parliament passes Child Protection Act

A decade ago, Hungarian parliamentarians passed a law that includes a provision allowing citizens to anonymously report same-sex couples raising children. The law specifies that Hungarians can sue those who challenge the “constitutionally recognized role of marriage and the family” and those who challenge the right of children “to an identity appropriate to their sex at birth.” The country’s Constitution states that the institution of marriage is “between a man and a woman” and recognizes that “the mother is a woman, the father a man.” The passage of this law comes after the Hungarian Constitutional Court issued a ruling last February reaffirming the ban on legal recognition of “gender” change by transgender persons. Read more

Religion

Kissing the Blarney Stone goodbye: Ireland’s “massive attack” on freedom of speech and religion

“The cancel culture’s attack on these foundational freedoms is something we all must resist, wherever we live, lest we revert to what Paine described as that “slavery of fear [that] made men afraid to think.”

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Spanish bishops: Abortion as a right makes the unborn child ‘a true undocumented person’

The Spanish Bishops’ Conference (CEE) criticized the May 9 ruling by the country’s constitutional court (TC) that upheld abortion as a right, thus, it said, making the human person developing in the womb “a true undocumented person.”

The executive commission of the CEE said in a statement that it deplores that the TC affirmed “that there are human beings who do not have rights” by supporting “an ideological, unscientific law that promotes inequality.” Read more

Pope Francis welcomes program to spiritually adopt a struggling teen

Pope Francis has given his blessing to a program started in Poland to spiritually adopt struggling teenagers and pray for them by name.

Kryzysztof Gawrysiak and his wife, Aneta, spent more than two hours with Pope Francis at his Vatican residence on May 4.

During the visit, they were able to introduce their new online initiative, pray4teens.org, which they started after learning more about the rates of depression — and suicide attempts — among adolescents around the world.

“We strongly believe [the prayers are] helping,” Aneta Gawrysiak told CNA last week. “We’ve got a lot of examples, a lot of testimony that prayer is very powerful.” Read more