Even as a woman shapes the child growing within her, the joys and trials of pregnancy are shaping her, sanctifying her, and teaching her how to depend on others during this season of peculiar service.

Humans are, hands down, the single most fascinating set of creatures on the planet.  If you want to understand how humans work, just make a few, sit back, and watch them do their thing.

The Year of St. Joseph points us to Jesus' adoptive father, Joseph, as the essential model for fathers.

Raising kids is hard work, but it's 10 times harder if they haven't learned to mind you — to do what you ask. 

As we all know, there is a crisis of fatherhood today.

Your teen (16) says she and her boyfriend want to have sex. What should you say?

Help your kids think a little less about getting, and a little more about giving.

"Man lives by reason, which can attain to prudence only after long experience, so that children need to be instructed by their parents who are experienced." - Thomas Aquinas, "Summa contra gentiles"

Studies show authority and love are both crucial.

In Rudyard Kipling's coming-of-age novel "Captains Courageous", a spoiled, rich teenager named Harvey is initiated into manhood through a series of adventures on a fishing vessel.