Parenting

“it is not what American culture expects of me, especially as a conservative man who might be thought to revere the mid-century family model of a working father and stay-at-home mother.” - CPost

“We must be more purposeful about this than ever before. It must be instruction that is Bible-based and does not follow the extremes or errors of popular culture.” - P&D

“I’m seeing a growing number of parents like the mom I just described—parents who truly believe that it’s virtuous to let the kid be in charge, even when the kid is a six 6-year-old with a fever who is refusing to let the doctor look at her throat.” - IFS

“The rights of adults to free speech and association and the goods of protecting children and public morality are microcosms of the perennial debate of configuring liberty and morality in proper proportion.” - World

“Fewer Catholic (35%) and White non-evangelical Protestant parents (29%) say this is extremely or very important to them.” - Pew

“The statistics are genuinely alarming: it sounds like boys are all going to drop out of school, quit going to work, and spend the rest of their lives watching porn, doing drugs, and playing video games.” - TGC

“For mothers whose youngest child was age 5 to 12, average time spent on secondary care increased by about 2.5 hours from 2019 to 2020, from an average of 5.8 to 8.2 hours a day, before dipping to an average of 7.1 hours a day in 2021.” - Pew

“If I’d known how bad social media was going to be for my kids, I would never have given them a phone. They’re older now—in their late teens and early 20s—and are wrestling with issues like eating disorders, addiction, and sexuality. I feel like I totally messed up. What can I do?” - TGC

“The bipartisan ‘Kids Online Safety Act,’ which is currently before Congress, is an effort to address these realities by providing parents and kids with safeguards and tools to protect them, uncovering the ‘black box algorithms’ that can feed dangerous content, and creating a duty for social media platforms to prevent and mitigate harms” - IFS

“Based on data from the Baylor survey… Adult men and women who attended religious services at least weekly at age 12 were more likely to report that they were currently ‘very happy,’…and less likely to indicate that they were frequently bored, when compared to those who attended less frequently or not at all.” - IFS