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Home: Current Issues: Marriage and Family: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Marriage and Family: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Teddy Roosevelt’s Passion for Family Life Outranked Every Other - William Mattox Jr.Teddy Roosevelt — a big-game hunter who pioneered the National Park system, built the Panama Canal, and won the Nobel Prize for Peace — packed "more into one life than any ten men of average metabolism." What many commentators fail to notice about this man of noble passions is that his greatest passion was his family. Read more... The bride who was groomed for a career - Lee SinghGrowing up, I wish I'd heard more about the roles of wife and mother. An Ivy League mom's lament. Read more... The Case Against "Same-Sex Marriage" - Margaret SomervilleThis is a brief presented on April 29th, 2003 before the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, Canada. Margaret Somerville is Samuel Gale Professor of Law and Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University's Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law. Read more... The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage - Tim LeslieAssemblyman Tim Leslie offers a compelling argument against same-sex marriage... and has the data to back it up. Read more... The End of Marriage in Scandinavia - Stanley KurtzMarriage is slowly dying in Scandinavia. A majority of children in Sweden and Norway are born out of wedlock. Sixty percent of first-born children in Denmark have unmarried parents. Not coincidentally, these countries have had something close to full gay marriage for a decade or more. Read more... The Evolution of Divorce - W. Bradford WilcoxDivorce rates are dropping for the wealthy and the highly educated, but rising steadily among the poor. How did we end up with a class-based divorce divide? And what can be done to strengthen marriage in America? Read more... The Facts of Life & Marriage - W. Bradford WilcoxFaithful Christian scholars need to seize this moment, and underline the intellectual power and coherence of Christian moral teaching to Christian colleges and universities, congregations, pastors, and the public square. Read more... The Family and the Constitution - DAVID WAGNERThe family occupies a precarious position in the liberal democracies of today. Read more... The Knot That Can’t Be Tied: Secular, Natural and Sacramental Marriage - Mark LoweryMan’s sexual energies are of extraordinary power and complexity. Is this energy something we can use however we wish, or is there some objective standard to which this energy should be conformed? The Western tradition, like many other traditions, has consistently held that there is such an objective standard, and it is the reality called “marriage.” Read more... The Latest War Against Marriage - Maggie GallagherToday thanks to a myriad of sociological studies showing that men, women, and children are better off, not worse off, in committed two-parent families, the campaign against marriage has metamorphosed once again. Increasingly unable to make the case for the sexually liberated single life or the superiority of the single-parent household, the antimarriage warriors now celebrate what they call “family diversity.” Read more... The Law of the Gift: Understanding the Two Sides of Love - Edward SriHow does a person know if he is in a relationship of authentic, committed love or just in another disappointing romance that will not stand the test of time? Read more... The Magnificence of Marriage - MITCHELL KALPAKGIANThe prominent theme in Marriage is that Christian matrimony demands the highest, the best, and the noblest for both man and woman-not the lowest common denominator. Read more... The Manhattan Declaration: The Manifesto That's Shaking America - Sandro MagisterIt's been endorsed by Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox leaders, united in defending life and the family. Read more... The Marriage Covenant - FATHER WILLIAM SAUNDERSGiven our understanding of marriage and marital love, we can readily see that the most beautiful expression of love in marriage is marital love, or physical love, or sexual intercourse, or conjugal love — whatever term one prefers. Read more... The Moral Birds and the Bees - Roger ScrutonIn the England of the Forties, when my parents were courting, terms like "moral," "decent," and "clean living" applied primarily to sexual behavior. Immorality meant sleeping around (and how innocent the word "sleeping" now sounds!); indecency meant unsolicited advances; dirtiness meant whatever put the sexual object before the loving subject. Read more... The Necessary Amendment - Robert H. BorkWithin the next two or three years, the Supreme Court will almost certainly climax a series of state court rulings by creating a national constitutional right to homosexual marriage. Read more... The New Singleness - Maggie GallagherIn the cover story in a recent Atlantic magazine, Kate Bolick declares her liberation from marriage: "It's time to embrace new ideas about romance and family - and to acknowledge the end of 'traditional' marriage as society’s highest ideal." Read more... The Origin and Destiny of Marriage and Family - RABBI DANIEL LAPINIf the American family were an airplane, the Federal Aviation Administration would long since have grounded it due to the large number that have crashed. Read more... The Paternal Order of Priests - Scott HahnThere is a famous homily of St. Augustine in which he refers to the fathers in his audience as "my fellow bishops." He startles his congregation, which certainly included many busy fathers of families, by telling them to be faithful to the duties of the priesthood. Read more... The Patriarchal Family in History - Christopher DawsonThe family is not a product of culture; it is, as Malinowski shows, “the starting point of all human organization” and “the cradle of nascent culture.” Read more... The Politics of Family Destruction - Stephen BaskervilleStephen Baskerville explains how the government actually encourages divorce. Read more... The Quiet Family Killer: Pornography and Marriage - Patrick F. FaganMost men, including doctors, have not the foggiest notion that the wives develop deep psychological wounds, commonly reporting feelings of betrayal, loss, mistrust, devastation, and anger at the discovery of their husbands' use of pornography, especially Internet use. Read more... The Real Pregnancy Crisis - Bradford WilcoxNext time you hear a college-educated academic or advocate talking about marriage and motherhood, do as they do, not as they say. Read more... The Romance of Domesticity - Nathan SchlueterAs with Manicheanism in the time of Augustine, so in our own time there lurks a dangerous heresy that twists both the truth and a good many lives. I call that heresy Romanticism. Read more... The Spousal Secret - Mike AquilinaThe secret to being a good husband. Read more... Related Categories:
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