Parenting
Close Family Relationships Offer Long-Term Social Benefits, Study Finds
Humans are social creatures. Our success as adult citizens rests largely in the vibrancy and size of our social networks. After all, the unapologetically Christian poet, John Donne properly noted, “No man is an island, Entire of itself.” A new…
California Illegally Withheld Students’ Information From Parents
The California Department of Education (CDE) is violating federal law by hiding information about students’ “gender identity” from parents, the U.S. Department of Education found last week. The department’s Student Privacy Policy Office…
Josh Allen: Being a Dad is ‘Most Important Thing’
On Thursday, Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen met the media for the first time since his team’s heartbreaking playoff loss two weeks ago. The 6-foot-5 signal caller hobbled in on crutches, his right foot encased in a boot. “I had a little…
Children’s Rights Should Always Come Before Adults’ Desires
Katy Faust, founder of the non-profit organization “Them Before Us,” believes every child deserves a mother and a father. So does Focus on the Family president Jim Daly, Southern Seminary president Dr. Albert Mohler, Colson Center president John…
Every Parent Needs to Talk to Their Teen About the Yahoo Boys
They’re known as the “Yahoo Boys” — a term emanating from the late 1990s and early 2000s when schemers in Nigeria would use Yahoo email to try and scam unsuspecting people out of their money via the internet. Those of a certain age will remember…
New Family Study Shows Importance of Married Parenting
It has long been established, since the deeply important 1966 Coleman Report on childhood education in America, that family form and parents’ levels of involvement in raising their children are paramount in boosting child well-being and…
To Make Marriage and Children Great Again, We Must Make Hearts Whole Again
According to The New York Times, the Trump Administration’s efforts to increase marriage and birth rates are stalling 358 days into the president’s second term. To buttress her case, reporter Caroline Kitchener cites the various proposals…
Is Polygamy Biblical? – The Stream
Part 1 of a 3-part series By Peter Demos Published on December 12, 2025 What does the Bible actually say about polygyny—and what doesn’t it say? In this 40-minute video, Peter Demos speaks with Pastor Rich Tidwell to examine his views on…
You Don’t Need ChatGPT to Raise a Child. You Need a Mom and Dad.
Sam Altman, an investor, entrepreneur and CEO of OpenAI, a research and development company, says he can’t imagine raising a child without the availability and accessibility of artificial intelligence. Appearing on Jimmy Fallon earlier this…
How to Ruin a Generation: Give Everyone Smartphones
We tend to associate heavy smartphone and internet use with negative mental health outcomes, as we should, but what about the spiritual side effects of the technology? What is social media, pornography, and the litanies of short-form content…