My Generation Isn’t Suffering Enough
Discussions today around Gen Z’s mental health occlude this possibility of a lack of adversity in our daily lives.
Freya India
· 11 min read
Family
A collection of 38 posts
Growing Up Without a Father-Figure Can Make Boys Less Violent
While there is likely a modest link between violent crime and single parenting, Faust and Manning are wrong about the benefits of a father-figure.
Robert Cherry
· 7 min read
‘Taking Cara’ Business: A New Mom’s Anxious Glimpse Into the World of Baby-Sleep Consultants
Being a new mom who wanted the best for my child, I felt anxious about having fallen into what I was told was suboptimal behaviour.
Tara Nykyforiak
· 8 min read
The Problem with Kinship Care
It is not only the state’s consent decree that is pushing it to reduce foster care numbers significantly
Naomi Schaefer Riley
· 9 min read
The End of the World as We Know It?
The scholars at Our World in Data add that this also holds for other natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcano activity, wildfire, and landslides.
Glenn T. Stanton
· 15 min read
My White Privilege Didn’t Save Me. But God Did
Because of my experiences, and the newly fashionable denial of reality being promoted by progressives, I find myself sitting with the politically homeless.
Edie Wyatt
· 12 min read
Forget What Gender Activists Tell You. Here’s What Medical Transition Looks Like
Medical transition, such as the kind I went through, can enhance an illusion that helps some gender dysphoric individuals navigate the world with more comfort.
Scott Newgent
· 8 min read
Neglecting At-Risk Children in the Name of Cultural Sensitivity
She has more than 20 years of experience working with families and children in true crisis, including with issues ranging from rape, to drug addiction, to terminal illness
Hal Niedzviecki
· 8 min read
Is Foster Care Racist?
The complaints of structural racism and a desire to abolish foster care will sound familiar to anyone who has been listening to the recent debate about policing.
Naomi Schaefer Riley
· 8 min read
Long-Distance Love during Lockdown
Love, it turns out, remains an enduring mystery.
Marilyn Simon
· 7 min read
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family—A Review
Full Surrogacy Now makes a feminist argument for, as the author puts it, “abolishing the family” by no longer attaching any importance to biological relationships between people.
Louise Perry
· 9 min read
The Decline of the Great American Family Saga
In February, the Atlantic published a much discussed essay by David Brooks entitled “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake.” Brooks noted that the conditions that once made nuclear families viable—strong unions, plenty of jobs that paid living wages, inexpensive housing and transportation and education costs, stay-at-home mothers, high numbers
Kevin Mims
· 13 min read
Scandinavia: Can The New "Parental Team" Replace Marriage?
A 2012 statistical report profiled a cohort of 34,000 Swedish heterosexual couples who had their first baby in 2000, and followed their progress longitudinally until 2010.
Mikael Jalving
· 8 min read
Polyamory Is Growing—And We Need To Get Serious About It
More people than ever are pursuing polyamorous, open, or swinging relationships.
Geoffrey Miller
· 13 min read
Buying Fentanyl on the Streets of San Francisco—An Interview with Heather Mac Donald
Cities are one of the great accomplishments of human civilization.
Michael Shellenberger
· 7 min read