Category: Marriage/Family
Harvard Evolutionary Biologist Brilliantly Explains Necessity of Monogamous Marriage
Marital monogamy provides essential social benefits by democratizing sexuality in uniting one man to one woman and vice versa through marriage. Marriage builds stronger, longer-lasting social connections and efficient distributions of wealth and trade within communities and across generations. Marriage norms also regulate who can marriage and reproduce with whom, which subtly structures society in ways most people don’t realize. All of this makes men, women, children and society better.
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Getting Out of Debt . . . Again
Our Christmas debt wouldn’t have been a big deal if we’d had the money to cover it. But we both suffered from a lack of discipline in our finances and continually struggled to make ends meet each month. With renewed determination, we analyzed our spending using a software program and uncovered three habits we needed to break to get our finances back on track.
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Embracing the Privilege of Womanhood
Among the traditional nativity characters, Mary has always been the one that has most profoundly spoken to me personally. I suspect that depth of intuitive, personal connection with her and the part she played in the blessed story among stories is a girl thing – a mother thing. As a result of personal lived experience, I and millions of other women like me, know what it feels like to be a woman and a mother. And I know what it feels like to be pregnant, to endure childbirth, to hold a tiny baby freshly arrived from heaven.
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How society can help women overcome postpartum disorders and thrive as mothers
Postpartum mood and anxiety disorders — including postpartum anxiety (PPA), depression (PPD), psychosis, and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), though colloquially referred to as PPD — are being diagnosed in an increasing percentage of women. A recent study published in JAMA Network Open shows that PPD rates have jumped over the past decade, from 9% in 2010 to 19% in 2021. Other sources show that “somewhere between 10 and 15 percent of mothers experience postpartum depression,” as I noted recently at The Federalist. While some of the past decade’s increase in diagnoses could be due to greater awareness, it is clear that more can and should be done for mothers experiencing PPD.
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Public opinion on same-sex marriage
Underlying the shift in support on same-sex marriage has been a more fundamental shift in how the morality of homosexuality is viewed … especially among younger Evangelicals.
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In Romania, Christians wonder why interest in marriage is waning
The average age of marriage has risen to 28. “Society and churches prepare people for the wedding, but not for marriage”, says a pastor from Cluj-Napoca. Hypersexualisation and uncertainty about the future do not help either.
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The Staying Power of the Traditional Wedding Vow
Cheryl Mendelson explores what “love,” “comfort,” “honor,” and “keep” actually mean in the context of both the intimacy of the marital relationship and its broader social and economic functions.
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Should We Decouple Technology From Everyday Life?
For decades, we have been told that the future is digital and that resistance is futile. But what if the future we truly want is one where the analogue coexists alongside the digital, where digital technology is an option and not a mandate?
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America Faces Huge Population Crisis: Deaths Will Outpace Births in 8 Years
Annual deaths are expected to exceed annual births in the United States by 2033, a new report estimates.
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Being Present With Our Children
One of parents’ constant struggles is trying to be there for our children while also meeting our own needs. We can do this by learning one oft-overlooked but pivotal parenting skill: meeting our own needs while our children are with us.
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Serving Others With Your Spouse Can Improve Your Marriage
Helping others as a couple can improve communication and create intimacy in your marriage.
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Does the Pace of Economic Growth Affect Fertility Rates?
The developed world faces a birth dearth, with total fertility rates below the 2.1 children per woman needed to sustain a population. Claudia Goldin, an economist … recently floated a new theory in this arena. In a working paper released through the National Bureau of Economic Research, she proposes that the pace of economic growth, and not merely the level of economic development, can profoundly affect fertility rates. The paper provides a compelling narrative and shows it’s consistent with descriptive data from a collection of 12 countries.
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