Fathers with a college education are more likely to get married, have better jobs, and spend more time with their children, a recent Pew study reported. Only 13 percent of fathers with at least a bachelor’s degree had children outside marriage, compared with 51 percent of those with high school diplomas and 65 percent of... Continue Reading

{T}he fight over Planned Parenthood has always been over the fact that in most places it simultaneously offers highly popular services — family planning and preventive care — and a far more controversial one — abortion — under the same banner… And then there were three. The North Carolina Legislature overrode a veto by Democratic... Continue Reading

I do want to build a strong faith in my kids, but I want them to test that faith and make it their own long before they leave home. For this reason, even though I homeschool partly out of a desire to minimize negative influences, my protection will decrease, and their freedom will increase, as... Continue Reading

“I think that switching to single-sex dorms will not necessarily remove or lessen the opportunity for binge drinking and premarital sex (most students party off-campus), but I think it will have a large impact in working to subtly reinforce the idea that students at Catholic University are expected to uphold a higher standard and that... Continue Reading

When the team uncovered the 1608 church where Pocahontas married John Rolfe, the 2010 find ranked among the world’s most important…”It’s a good thing the postholes were so big and so deep — or they wouldn’t have survived the plows,” Kelso says, pointing to a rectangular pattern of stains that — so far — perfectly... Continue Reading

Gay activists and their allies claim the legislation is the key to finding homes for waiting children. Yet, in 2009, a record 57,000 U.S. kids in foster care found forever families, up from 37,000 in 1998, according to a recent Child Trends study reported in “The Washington Times.” Under a bill sitting in the U.S.... Continue Reading

“We are an advocacy firm that is dedicated to improving the lives of gays and lesbians. It is incumbent on us to launch a full-throated educational campaign so firms know that these kinds of engagements will reflect on the way [their] clients and law school recruits think of [them],” adding, “We did all of this,... Continue Reading

A federal appeals court has ruled that New York City can ban churches from using public school facilities for Sunday worship services and does not violate free speech…The justices said that it could unconstitutionally convert schools into state-sponsored Christian churches on weekends. (Editor’s Note: Several Redeemer PCA church plants could be effected) Thursday’s 2-1 decision... Continue Reading

Circumcision of American boys has dropped dramatically since the 1960s, when the overwhelming majority got cut before leaving the hospital. Both sides in this fight cite competing studies as evidence that circumcision prevents deadly diseases, like HIV and penile cancer, or that it’s an unjustified modification that brings only pain and decreased sexual enjoyment. Across... Continue Reading

A federal appeals court has lifted the order banning public prayer at a Texas high school graduation Saturday. The reversal comes on the heels of increasing criticism of a federal judge’s earlier ruling that agreed with the parents of one graduating student that religious expression during the ceremony at Medina Valley Independent School District would... Continue Reading