Refuting the Techno-Myth and Reclaiming Childhood

Oct 17, 2024 |

Screens are so pervasive in society that we tend to think of them as inevitable. They have become extensions of our bodies. We might think that technology in itself is neutral and is only good or bad depending on how one uses it. Catherine L’Ecuyer, a doctor in education and psychology, disagrees. L’Ecuyer is Canadian by birth but currently lives in Spain, and she has been a powerful voice against the introduction of screens—of phones, tablets, laptops—into the school system for children and adolescents.

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Federal judge rejects parent’s request to put ‘straight pride’ flags in pro-LGBT classrooms

Oct 17, 2024 | ,

Double standards between homosexual and heterosexual “pride” may continue to stand in Denver Public Schools (DPS), a federal judge has determined in dismissing a lawsuit by a parent who requested “straight pride” flags be displayed in classrooms. Colorado Politics reported that the case concerns area father Nathan Feldman’s $3 million lawsuit accusing DPS of discrimination for displaying flags representing “non-binary and non-cisgender students” but refusing a request to put flags representing his two straight, non-gender-confused children.

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We Need a New Feminism That Embraces Motherhood as Meaningful Work

Oct 17, 2024 |

Feminism needs a makeover. In its original form, feminism worked to free women from a life without choices. Gloria Steinem’s feminism gave women the option to have brilliant careers outside the home, to forgo having children, and still lead meaningful lives. Many women needed to be freed from society’s expectations that all women should marry and have children and stay at home in the kitchen. However, the movement painted these issues with a broad brush rather than targeting those women who sought that choice. In its attempt to liberate those unhappy with traditional roles, it shifted judgment onto those who found fulfillment in raising children as meaningful work.

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New study finds abortion increases likelihood of women seeking mental health treatment

Oct 17, 2024 |

Having an abortion does indeed correlate to negative mental health, a new Danish study has found, contradicting a previous study out of the country and corroborating other data finding cause for concern. The study, published in Issues in Law & Medicine and led by the Elliot Institute’s David Reardon, reassesses the data from a 2011 study that found no increased risk of mental disorders after a first-trimester abortion. That conclusion, the new study’s authors write, was “inconsistent with similar studies that used longer time frames,” so they chose to take a second look at the same data “over slightly longer time frames.”

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How to Quit Watching Porn: 7 Strategies for Your Teens

Oct 17, 2024 | ,

Most teens have no idea how much pornography messes with natural sexual functioning and satisfaction in relationships. And few make the connection between porn and a decrease in faithfulness. But there’s endless research on the topic. (See a few studies cited at the end of this article.) Even before the research, the writer of Proverbs warned that the seduction of sexual immorality leaves no survivors in Proverbs 2.

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