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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
Utah's Reid shows leadership on intergenerational poverty
Tweet Utah State Senator Stuart Reid is providing important leadership on a crucial issue — intergenerational poverty. The 1990s saw a major effort to reform public welfare through work requirements for welfare recipients. This effort had merit, but Senator Reid … Continue reading
Posted in Poverty
Tagged children, divorce, family, Legislature, marriage, SB 37, sb37, Stuart Reid, unwed parenting, welfare
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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
Posted in Culture, Family, Uncategorized
Tagged cosmo, cosmopolitan, family, feminism, marriage
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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
Rethinking unilateral divorce
Tweet The Deseret News has recently published an important series of articles (here and here) and an editorial on an issue that gets far less attention than it deserves — the serious consequences of our legal culture of divorce. The … Continue reading
Posted in Divorce
Tagged alimony, children, custody, deseret news, divorce, family, reconciliation
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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
Posted in Family
Tagged children, family, gay rights, Mark Regnerus, parenting, same-sex marriage
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Government is all too eager to displace your family
Tweet The great conservative sociologist Robert Nisbet notes: “It is the nature of both family and state to struggle for the exclusive loyalty of their respective, and overlapping, members.” (Robert Nisbet, Prejudices: A Philosophical Dictionary 110 [1982].) This struggle seems … Continue reading
Posted in Self-reliance
Tagged family, life of julia, Limited Government, self-reliance
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Children of the revolution
Tweet In a book review in The Family in America, I proposed an analogy: “Today’s young adults are undeniably well-off and thriving materially. They enjoy opportunities and resources unheard of, even among their boomer parents. In terms of family and … Continue reading
Video: Marriage gap linked to lack of college education
Tweet According to Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, marriage is losing ground among Americans who are not college-educated. Those who are college-educated stay married longer and have more marital stability. This marriage … Continue reading
Family and religion: a harmonious union
Tweet A Sutherland newsletter from last year noted the links between family and religion. It explained: “Church and family are mutually supportive. Religious teachings about marriage, sexuality, obligations of spouses and parents, etc., bolster the natural affections of family life. … Continue reading