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The second pillar of a decent society is the institution of the family, which is built upon the comprehensive sexual union of man and woman. No other institution can top the family’s ability to transmit what is pivotal—character formation, values, virtues, and enduring love—to each new generation.

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Mother's Day

Mother’s Day and the Foolishness of Speech

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As a mother, I am coming to understand more concretely—and thus more deeply—what self-emptying love must look like, and thus I am coming to appreciate Christ's coming more deeply.
Christian marriage

What Binds Marriage Forever? 

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Only a revitalization of the richness of Christian marriage will suffice as a bulwark against the insanity, exploitation, and selfishness of the gender and sexual revolutions.
birthday party

Happy “Birth” Day? A Thought Experiment 

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The definition of “personhood” isn’t an issue we can push off much longer; technology will make us face it sooner than some might prefer.
marriage

A Sacramental Theology of Marriage: A Q&A with Fr. José Granados 

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This book invites spouses to look beyond themselves to better understand the greatness of the gift they have received and make it fruitful.
Pregnant woman and daughter on the beach

A Look Inside the Endometriosis Epidemic  

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Can We Restore Hope in Women’s Healthcare? 
IVF lab

Big Tech Meets Big Fertility 

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If democracy means anything, it should mean some ability to take a deep breath before we permit Silicon Valley to hack baby-making in the same way it has remade so many other facets of our lives.
sad, lonely young man

Why Are We So Pornsick? 

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Forming young men will be a lot easier if we remove the filth that is choking out loving and flourishing complementary relationships between men and women. 
romance and dating

Is Romance Dead or Delayed?

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Why Young People Are Avoiding Dating ... And What We Can Do About It 
girls having coffee together

Body Literacy Is the New “Sex Ed” 

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A culture that teaches girls to silence their pain, medicate their cycles, and dismiss the body’s signals is a culture that will inevitably reap infertility, despair, and declining birthrates. A culture that teaches body literacy, by contrast, will raise young people who see their fertility as a vital sign of health and an essential part of their future.
immigration and family separation

The Dignity of the Family and American Democracy 

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There appears to be an intractable choice between family separation, on one hand, and a nation that does not enforce its own laws or protect its own borders, on the other. How to proceed? 
Mirror image

Liquid Selves, Empty Selves: A Q&A with Angela Franks

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I’m all for refuting bad ideas. But the way you really convince people is to show them that what they want, they’re not getting from the wrongheaded idea, but they can get it from a correct understanding of what’s good and true.
stressed parent

The Parental Arms Race Needs to End 

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In a world where “success” is increasingly understood as zero-sum, we might have some empathy for today’s parents who are worried they are letting their kids down if they are not setting them up to succeed, even if that comes at a collective cost.  
dating app

The “Tea” App and the New Barbarism 

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Instead of relying on apps, perhaps we can, instead, invite friends over and run our concerns through a more reliable filter: the thoughts, impressions, and wisdom of those who know and love us, off-screen.  
Laboratory fertilization of human eggs/IVF

Babies, Made to Order: The New York Times Sounds the Reproductive Technology Alarm 

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If Siddiqui's new moral imperative for artificial, disembodied procreation to ensure perfectly healthy babies becomes the norm, have we not lost something truly beautiful and human, the link between physical sexual communion and procreation?   
Mother stressing kid out over perfectionism and homework

Intensive Parenting Is (Probably) Incompatible with Having Many Kids.

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Is it possible to be considered a good parent today if your top priority is not perfecting your children, but rather simply being their “safe place”? I don’t know the answer, but it seems to me that being a warm and loving parent that children feel safe with is both a worthy and challenging goal. I have often reflected that many of my worst parenting mistakes happened when I tried to convince my kids to be other than the people they are.
stressed out young mom with kid throwing a fit

Parenting Doesn’t Have to Be This Hard. You Can Just Tell Your Kids What to Do. 

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Take it from me: girl boss or not, travel sports or not, having kids can be a lot easier and more fun if you just remember that you’re the grown-up.
Sexual revolution's false promises

Passing Social Conservative Values from One Generation to the Next: A Q&A with Nathanael Blake 

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Policies matter, as do choices by individuals, families, and congregations. But ultimately our hope, both for rolling back the sexual revolution and then keeping it at bay, is in the grace of God. 
pride parade

Why Same-Sex Marriage Momentum Failed to Launch a Transgender Revolution 

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What might have seemed like the next progressive triumph-in-waiting is instead running off the rails. How? Why?
psych office

Should Sexual Reorientation Therapy Be Criminalized? 

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Whatever else one might say about the therapy bans in question, they undeniably burden the free exercise of religion for same-sex-attracted or gender-confused persons who seek not to identify with or live according to those conditions.
marriage and sex

Saving Sex: Love and Responsibility Revisited, Part II 

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The loving union of persons in even the best marriage is imperfect, temporary, partial, and prone to failure. To expect more than mortal love from marriage is to put a strain upon it that it cannot, and was not intended, to bear.
marriage and sex

Saving Sex: Love and Responsibility Revisited

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This background should prepare us for a more positive account of sexual morality that not only supports the right conclusions, but does so in a way that allows us to affirm the intrinsic goodness of sexual desire and sexual pleasure while connecting them to the great goods of marital friendship and procreation.
babies

A Baby Bazaar 

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As parents, may we each choose what is real, no matter the cost, that we may come to know real love and pour it out for our children.
monastery

On Monasteries and Birth Rates 

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Social conservatives have long recognized the civilizational value of the quotidian work of parenthood. In an analogous way, we ought to recognize that it is in the small acts of local participation that societies thrive or languish.
dating in the West

How the West Really Lost Dating 

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We are very different people from those who came before us, because of our deficits in social learning. 

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