Family

“I’ve heard this trope a lot: ‘It’s just too expensive.’ Is it? Is that really the reason that the American family seems to be a dying breed? Many people seem to think so. Well, let’s dig into the numbers a little.” - P&D

“The popularity of these ‘detox camps’ relates curiously to another emerging trend: ‘kid concierge’ services. Parents pay hundreds of dollars for ‘professionals’ to teach their children how to organize their backpacks, how to throw a ball, and how to ride a bike. Apparently, the new ‘gig economy’ involves ‘gig parenting.’” - Breakpoint

“It is time for the high court to clarify that parents—not the government, unions, or advocacy groups—are the primary decisionmakers for children’s education, upbringing, and care.” - Public Discourse

“After peaking in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the divorce rate has been falling in recent decades. In fact, the divorce rate has hit a 50-year-low. Since the 1980s, each cohort of married couples has seen their risk of divorce decline, as the figure below indicates.” - IFS

“The Supreme Court’s 2025 term concluded with four decisions …. All four cases were decided 6–3 in favor of positions advocated by Christian legal organizations, establishing precedents that protect crucial rights and fundamental religious freedoms.” - TGC

“How a Supreme Court case aimed to change marriage but redefined family instead.” - Breakpoint

“When you realize your spouse doesn’t have faith in Christ, it can feel like your union has suffered a major injury. Where God meant oneness, there’s dislocation, and you can’t heal it. But you can learn to walk by faith.” - TGC

“The new research just published by NBER charts new findings into how divorce is far more damaging to children than anyone ever imagined. It also quantifies deleterious effects far into adulthood and documents the causal effect by examining a million sibling groups to measure differing before/after affects within a family.” - World

“Every time we let someone say, ‘Oh, I’m just a mom,’ and don’t honor her work, we let stand the idea that serving the vulnerable is somehow a lesser existence—when in reality it is the foundation of any society that hopes to survive.” - Acton

“When we consider the state of the family at the beginning of the twenty-first century, our tendency is to reflect nostalgically on imagined idyllic days of generations past when families weren’t perfect but pretty close to it, or so we like to think.” - Ligonier