“To help answer this question, I drew on perhaps one of the most comprehensive datasets for the drug- and emotional-health-related variables that tap into this stereotype: The National Survey on Drug Use and Health covers a gamut of behaviors traditionally associated with stay-at-home parenting, such as drug use, suicidality, and depression.” - IFS
“Baptists do not confer upon their children a place in the covenant community (i.e., in the visible church) until they have professed faith in Christ as a fruit of the Spirit’s work of regeneration.
“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
“some of the most difficult decisions parents will ever make are the decisions about how to educate their children, since for most parents, they will have to regularly revisit the matter as their lives change, as their family grows, and as different options become available or unavailable.” - Challies
“Children learn who God is by hearing about Him repeatedly. While parents don’t save children, we’re called to repeat gospel truths.” - Lifeway
"In the face of the extraordinary challenges presented to parents and Christians by digital technology, it seems to me that we need two things above all. First, we need courage and boldness in confronting these challenges... Second, and just as important, we need grace. Grace for others, grace for our children, grace for ourselves." - CToday
“The Connors feel a deep sorrow that robs their joy and causes them to question their parenting. They pray for Kyle and wonder where things went wrong. They worry about his spiritual, physical, mental and emotional health and safety.” - Baptist Press
“Almost every parent looks back on their experience of parenting and thinks they could have done better. Help your friend to understand this…. But when we are vulnerable because of the grief caused by prodigal children, the devil will whisper in our ear that it is all our fault.” - Challies
“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
“In a class-action lawsuit initiated by two teachers…U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez ruled the policy unconstitutional and blocked it with a permanent injunction Dec. 22. The Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) applauded the victory for parental rights.” - Baptist Press
