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Ana Samuel

Ana Samuel, PhD, is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Notre Dame. She was the first executive director of the Witherspoon Institute in 2003. After getting involved in the promotion of the New Family Structures Study, she edited No Differences? How Children in Same-Sex Households Fare  and helped launch the pro-marriage organization CanaVox, where she continues to serve as Academic Director. Every summer, she enjoys teaching the dialogues of Plato and Aristotle’s moral philosophy to high school students for the Witherspoon Institute’s summer seminars. She and her husband are the grateful parents of six.

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On Marital Fidelity: Its Personal and Public Benefits

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Over the past several decades, our civilization has experimented with a number of alternatives to faithful marriage. Yet the evidence is abundant that from a personal as well as a public perspective, we are most likely to flourish when faithful, monogamous, natural-law marriages are plentiful and the norm.
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Rebel Parenting in an Age of LGBTQ Overreach

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Righteous anger is often good and necessary. But not all parents are comfortable with confrontation, and even fewer enjoy the option of placing their children in saner institutions or schooling at home. I’m convinced that parents can be very effective in less noisy, more behind-the-scenes ways.
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On the Waves of Feminism with Mona Charen

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One of the unfortunate poisons that feminism leached into the culture is hostility between the sexes. We need to rescue feminism from that. We need to stress the importance of raising boys and girls who are open-hearted, respectful, and comfortable with themselves and each other. Adapted from an interview with Mona Charen conducted by Ana Samuel during The CanaVox state leaders meeting.

A Message to Mayor Pete from a Latina Mama: “Don’t Force Your Sexual Ideology on Me and My Children”

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Yes, be polite to us, and we will be polite to you. But we know that we are in an intense battle over the hearts and minds of our children. Mothers are very good at educating and protecting our children from harm when we believe they are in danger. This time, that danger is the harmful sexual ideology of the Left.
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Motherhood and Career: A Thrilling Tug of War

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The home and the office pull in opposite directions, but modern mothers can assemble a team on both ends of the rope to help them manage that tension—and they can learn to thrive in the process.
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The Kids Aren’t All Right: New Family Structures and the “No Differences” Claim

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Two new peer-reviewed studies show that family structure matters and children do best when reared by their married biological mother and father.
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