Category: Marriage/Family

The Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood

Judges, lawyers, county workers and providers, child welfare providers need to help those separated parents struggling to coparent in a collegial manner, not enable or even support vindictiveness. The standard expectation in any separated family should be that mothers and fathers work together to ensure that their children have ready access to their mother, father and both of their extended families.

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Stop Lying to Women

Many young women believe they will be happier if they remain single and without kids. Yet studies continue to show that the happiest people on average are women who are married with kids. In other words, there is an incredible gap between perception and reality.

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Building a Strong Marriage by Giving Grace

If we want our marriage partnership to be beautiful, meaningful and lasting, then we ought to be living out God’s grace by extending it. And that means building each other up one word at a time. My dad likes to tell the story about his first tool set. Although the tools were child-sized, they were substantial enough to use. So he set to work. It wasn’t until his parents crawled into bed that night that they discovered his handiwork — when the entire bed collapsed. My dad had managed to saw through the bed’s legs…

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Private domestic adoptions on the rise post-pandemic, report finds

A new report from the National Council For Adoption reveals that private domestic adoptions have seen a significant increase in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the study “Adoption by the Numbers,” non-stepparent private domestic adoptions rose by about 3% between 2019 and 2022, with an estimated 25,503 infants adopted through private domestic channels in 2022, compared to 24,720 in 2019. This increase suggests a recovery in adoption numbers after the disruptions caused by the pandemic.

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