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‘Feminism has betrayed an entire generation of women’
Tweet In 2008, the daughter of novelist Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, wrote about how her mother’s extreme feminism poisoned her life. Rebecca Walker rued her upbringing and praised the happiness that motherhood has now brought her. Her … Continue reading
Will this Legislature uphold or undermine ideals of family?
Tweet Animating the Sutherland Institute’s efforts on family issues at the Legislature is the principle that individual family disintegration or failure to form is not the only problem our society faces. The increasing social and legal acceptance of family breakdown … Continue reading
America’s demographic cliff
Tweet Will a lack of children lead to America’s decline? Jonathan V. Last wrote a thought-provoking essay for Saturday’s Wall Street Journal about “America’s Baby Bust”: For more than three decades, Chinese women have been subjected to their country’s brutal … Continue reading
Talking past each other
Tweet The phrase “talking past each other” surely applies to the “debate” in which we are supposedly engaged over the meaning of marriage as it relates to divorce, redefinition, cohabitation, unwed parenting, etc. On one side, there are discussions of … Continue reading
Weighing decisions of character against feelings of discomfort
Tweet In our continued debates over moral issues, it is not uncommon for politicians, opinion leaders and others to announce that, after agonizing over the issue, they have decided to change positions or announce positions in favor of things like … Continue reading
Spending our children’s inheritance
Tweet One of the gems in Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France is his description of the tradition threatened by the social engineering of the French Revolution as an “entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Family
Tagged burke, children, family, Founding Fathers, french revolution, posterity
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Polyamory and willful blindness?
Tweet Imagine a scenario where a small child is allowed to play with loaded weapons without meaningful oversight from the parents. Then imagine the parents excuse their behavior by saying that the child had not yet been shot or shot … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Law
Tagged child welfare, children, custody, divorce, family, marriage, parenting
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Academic witch hunt ends in acquittal
Tweet A Child Trends report in 2002 concluded: “First, research clearly demonstrates that family structure matters for children, and the family structure that helps children the most is a family headed by two biological parents in a low-conflict marriage.” There … Continue reading
Helen Gurley Brown and the American family
Tweet Helen Gurley Brown’s death last week was followed by a number of laudatory stories about her trail-blazing career at Cosmopolitan magazine. Undoubtedly she was successful, measured by influence and money. But I find it hard to lionize her career … Continue reading
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Tagged cosmo, cosmopolitan, family, feminism, marriage
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Alimony, audits and adoption: family issues heard during Utah interim meetings
Tweet During last week’s interim day meetings, the legislature heard three family issues. The Judiciary Interim Committee listened to testimony about reforming alimony (brought to the Committee by Representative Fred Cox, R-West Valley City) which has been a Sutherland Institute … Continue reading
Utah could take a lesson from Chris Christie on surrogacy
Tweet On Aug. 8, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie did the right thing in vetoing a bill that would have allowed adults to contract with one another so that one would carry a child to term for money and then … Continue reading
How sound marriage laws enhance liberty
Tweet A sincere question often raised in the debate over the definition of marriage is whether it is appropriate for government to be in the marriage business at all. For those of us who believe in the principle of limited … Continue reading
How is Utah’s child welfare system doing?
Tweet As we have reported, the Utah Legislature is reviewing an audit of the Utah Division of Child and Family Services. The Foundation for Government Accountability has just released a report with state rankings based on 11 different child outcomes. … Continue reading
Will California ‘split the child’?
Tweet The news is reporting on another troubling development from California, where the state Senate is considering a bill that would specifically allow the government to designate more than two “parents” for a child. Although radical, this idea is not … Continue reading
Video: study shows children better off with father and mother
Tweet A new study shows there are significant differences among children raised by gay and lesbian parents when compared with children raised by intact biological families. Watch this video report to learn more from Bill Duncan, Sutherland Institute’s Director of the Center … Continue reading
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Tagged children, family, gay rights, Mark Regnerus, parenting, same-sex marriage
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