Family
The following article is from the editors of The Stream and was originally published as an installment in a series known as “Foundations,” which examines the most important fundamental issues facing America from a traditional Christian perspective. It is reprinted here on HillFaith by permission. Evangelicals and Catholics have a reputation. We’re opposed to homosexuality, and gay…
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When the delivery room doctor or midwife first received you from your Mother’s womb, he or she knew immediately whether you were a boy or a girl. That first instant of recognition took care of what was to be written on your birth certificate regarding your sex. Unlike your name, which was “assigned” to you…
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Jim Caviezel, who portrays Department of Homeland Security Special Agent Tim Ballard in ‘The Sound of Freedom‘ movie released over the July 4 weekend, explains his decision to take the controversial part as motivated in great part by his belief that somebody needs to stand up now about problems like the world-wide sex-trafficking of little…
Read MoreWe are asking anyone and everyone who cares about the sanctity of human life to join us for a prayer gathering in front of the United States Supreme Court on October 2, 2021 at 2pm EDT. The event is to usher in the 2021-2022 SCOTUS term that could prove to be a monumental year for…
Read MoreIf you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times – “The kids will be fine.” Well, no, actually, the data is in and it shows overwhelmingly that, compared to the traditional nuclear family of Married Father and Mother, with their children, the kids aren’t going to be fine. As Katy Faust of the…
Read MoreI was sitting with my incredible son, Marcus, just outside of Turn Two at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Sunday taking in all of the intoxicating sights and sounds of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing, the Indy 500. This was not your typical Father-Son outing. I’ve been a racing fan since I was about five years…
Read MoreIt’s been a staple of political, economic and sociological analyses for decades that when a working woman marries and has kids, she suffers a loss of income, compared to unmarried peers. It’s the Gender Wage Gap and, while its calculation varies from year to year, there’s little doubt that it’s real, for whatever reasons. Now…
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A new study produced some unexpected results in assessing the effects of the national lockdown on American teenagers beginning in March in response to the Covid crisis, including the fact teens did less gaming. The study by the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) and the Wheatley Institution was authored by was authored by Jean Twenge…
Read MoreWhen federal policymakers named one of the most important social welfare efforts aimed at helping feed children in poverty, they dubbed it the “Women, Infants and Children” (WIC) program. Fathers somehow were left out. At one level, that title simply reflected the depressing reality that millions of fathers sire children, then fail to support them…
Read MoreMost conversations, especially on Capitol Hill, about public versus private education focus, unfortunately, on the relative merits of the two systems in terms of test scores and job preparation, according to a new joint study by the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) and the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Not that doing well on the SAT…
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