Although there is no evidence that these hormonal and surgical changes to a child’s body produce improved mental health outcomes, there is growing evidence of permanent physical damage, including loss of bone density, greater risk of disease, and infertility.
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“As recently as the early 20th century, marketing targeted at children and mothers was seen as a kind of profane violation of the sanctity of the home,” Amanda Parrish Morgan notes in an essay for JSTOR. Now, however, you become a prime target for marketers the moment you get a positive pregnancy test.
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Adults have an obligation to advise, comfort, and inform — to provide the social context that children have none of the resources to infer and to help form expectations of what comes next. Instead, we’re throwing kids helplessly on their primitive imaginations.
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Cultivating a healthy marriage and family isn’t easy, and the latest “Avatar” installment didn’t sugarcoat the marital tension, sibling squabbles, and life challenges that can strain relationships like the Sullys’. But those trials show that sticking together deepens familial bonds, fosters resilience, and builds faith. Just as the way of water “has no beginning and no end,” neither does familial love.
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In a 2008 address, he told members of Italy’s pro-life movement that “defending human life today has become more difficult because a mindset has developed, entrusted to the opinion of the individual, which has gradually debased its value.” In response to society’s devaluing of human life, he said that “the Church never tires of reaffirming that the sacred value of every human being’s life originates in the Creator’s plan” and also “encourages the promotion of every initiative in support of women and families in order to create the favorable conditions in which to welcome life and the protection of the family institution founded on the marriage between a man and a woman.”
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