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Cohabitation Doesn’t Help Your Odds of Marital Success

The popularity of cohabitation flows partly from the fact that many young people believe the myth that living together before marriage is not only acceptable but beneficial for their eventual marriage—even though research continues to link cohabitation to lower quality and less stable unions. The research tells us, for instance, that most cohabitating couples today end up like Swift and Alwyn, not even making it to the altar. One recent study found that 54% of first-time cohabiting couples saw their relationship end in a break-up within six years of moving in together, whereas only 33% had tied the knot in the same time frame.

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An open secret: social contagion is driving the astronomic rise in teen gender dysphoria

Social contagion is at least partially responsible for the upsurge in gender dysphoria in the past three decades, but this is vehemently denied by most social institutions charged with the safeguarding of children and young people, including governments, universities and schools, human rights commissions, legal institutions, and sporting bodies.

The misguided adherence to a scientifically bankrupt gender ideology has had, as yet unfathomed negative impacts on young people, their families, and the wider society. The reason that this phenomenon is never debated is that it would detonate and topple the edifice of gender ideology.

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Planned Parenthood Aborted Nearly 375,000 Unborn Children Last Year: Report

Planned Parenthood aborted almost 375,000 unborn children last year, setting another record for the organization as elective abortions remain the leading cause of death for children in the United States.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s historic overturning of Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in the summer of 2022, which fundamentally changed the abortion landscape across the nation, at least 14 states have outlawed abortions with few to no exceptions.

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Bridal magazine puts bearded ‘trans-feminine’ activist in dress on cover, draws backlash

Brides Today, a wedding magazine for brides in India, has drawn backlash after it featured a “trans-feminine” person on its cover.

Trans poet, comedian and activist Alok Vaid-Menon, who goes by “ALOK,” is shown in several cover photos wearing womens’ wedding apparel from jewelry to a head covering and a dress for its digital magazine.

Brides Today shared the photos on Instagram, where they received widespread criticism from users saying the photos were disrespectful to women.

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Are medication abortion drugs polluting waterways?

The abortion industry is polluting America’s water and the government is ignoring it, according to a citizens’ petition lodged with the US Food and Drug Administration.

Students for Life of America (SFLA), the largest pro-life youth organization in the US, argues that the active ingredients in a medication abortion, mifepristone and misoprostol, are excreted into the water supply and can eventually endanger human, animal and plant life.

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