Encounter Books, 2007. David Blankenhorn is a world authority on the institution of marriage. One of the biggest debates concerning marriage today is whether we…
Eerdmans, 2004. The issue of the relationship between men and women is a vexed and complex issue. Plenty of volumes have been written on this…
Eerdmans, 2001. When one considers that the institutions of marriage and family were the first ordained by God, preceding even the State or the Church,…
Basic Books, 1995. Thirty years ago American Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a report called “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action”. In it…
We have known for decades now which family structure is best for children: Who said this back in June of 2008? “We know that more…
Many people arguing for the moral and social legitimacy of surrogacy will rather recklessly throw out the issue of adoption, believing that the two are…
The current marriage wars are so very odd for so many reasons. Until just recently the ideological left was vigorously insisting that marriage is just…
When societies crumble, when ideology replaces reality, and when social activism wars against standing verities, then the restatement of basic core truths and values becomes…
George Orwell once said: “We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”…
I just penned a piece on women and head coverings, and mentioned that this was part of a much larger debate over the role of…
With over a half century of solid social science research now in, we know quite clearly that children do best by every measure when raised…
I have written often before about surrogacy and the many concerns one can have over the practice. As it gets more and more popular, many…
Over five decades of social science research have told us just how bad things are for children when the father is absent. By every social…
Surrogacy is on the rise around the world. This means of obtaining children is becoming more and more popular, with more and more desperate adults…
“The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended!…
There are very few solidly pro-faith and pro-family films out today. There are not many professionally-made Christian movies around. Courageous however is all this and…
For over fifty years now the social sciences have been telling us with the utmost clarity that there is no better guarantee of a child’s…
Lady Gaga’s song “Born This Way” is another piece of propaganda in the culture wars. She seeks to convince gullible young people that we are…
I must confess: I simply do not read all the gossip mags, so I do not know whether Nicole Kidman used a surrogate arrangement because…
Some recent high-profile cases of abused children have once again highlighted the very real problem of child abuse. Any time a child is abused it…