How My Parents’ Divorce Forever Affected Our Holidays
Holidays are always hard in blended families. I was a reject from a twice-broken family, and I didn’t know what to do with myself at holidays other than hide.
Why It’s Probably Not A Coincidence That The Mother Transing Her 7-Year-Old Isn’t Biologically Related
James’s non-biological parent’s willingness to risk her child’s long-term health struggle contrasts sharply with his biological parent’s desire to protect him.
U.K. High Court Calls Trans Woman ‘He’ But Won’t Allow ‘Father’
If this all seems totally bats, it’s because it is. If someone is woman enough to conceive, gestate, and birth live young, she, he, or they should have no issue using the word mother as an identifier.
U.S. Forces Parents Away From Adopted Children For As Long As Two Years
Luke and Brittney Stasi appear to have been victims of an unannounced policy change at the U.S. State Department keeping parents from bringing their adopted children home. Will Congress act?
Buying Votes With Family Handouts Won’t Work If People Don’t Want Kids
Even if Democrats’ raft of ‘family-oriented’ welfare proposals intend to raise plummeting U.S. birth rates — a national problem that needs to be addressed — they won’t do any good because the problem isn’t money, it’s culture.
Why Democrats’ Plans For Nationalizing Child Care And Preschool Will Help No One
Just like education, traffic laws, and trash pickup, child care is a local issue, best handled by people closest to the action.
How Pretending We Can Control Our Kids’ Happiness Fuels Mom Guilt
Why has motherhood joined death and religion as something that can only be joked about carefully? Exaggerating a mom’s power burdens her with more responsibility than she can fulfill.
Yes, Teachers Are Raising Many People’s Kids, But They Shouldn’t Be
Teachers should not be faulted for their efforts, but there are significant reasons to ensure the line between teacher and parent remains distinct.
Jeffrey Toobin: Mothers Worried About Their Teenage Sons Is ‘Nonsense’
Jeffrey Toobin flipped out when Dana Bash made an insightful point about the political ramifications of uncorroborated allegations.
Podcast: Democrats Push Single Payer, Republicans Push Paid Family Leave
Hadley Heath Manning discusses the current partisan agendas including paid parental leave , Medicare for all, and the opioid epidemic.
What Cultural Trends Created ‘The Coddling Of The American Mind’?
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff join Federalist Radio to discuss what’s happening in both child development and on college campuses.
Why You Should Consider Starting Your Family Earlier Than You’re Planning
You’re never too young to meet your future spouse. And start your family while you’re still young, because it only gets harder with age.
Here’s What Happens If We Run Public Parks Like We Run Public Schools
As you know, back in 2018 the voters of Iowa decided to make summer camp compulsory—and for good reason.
Can Surprise Events Like Sports Upsets Cause Desperately Needed Baby Booms?
Iceland’s reported baby boom exactly nine months after their surprise soccer victory over England isn’t the first time sports victory baby booms have been reported.
The Women’s Strike Is A Self-Indulgent Day For Privileged Females
This day of demonstration assumes a set of elitist and inegalitarian privileges for participants and further marginalizes an already-marginalized group of women.
What Blame Do Parents Share For The Sudden Emergence Of Trans Kids?
Transgender status is a complex and odd bid for public attention, especially coming from children.
Why Parents Are Often The Best Health-Care Experts For Special-Needs Kids
It is nice to see for once that Washington politicians have rejected the head-patting, experts-know-best attitude. Opinion journalists should do the same.
Maybe It’s Time To Redefine What It Means For Women To ‘Have It All’
What if we don’t want to be CEOs at Fortune 500 companies, Supreme Court justices, or the next U.S. president? What if our ambitions involve kids?
Keep Biological Parents On Birth Certificates Despite LGBT Protests
The Arkansas Supreme Court recently ruled that for newborn children of lesbian married couples, only the biological mother should be listed on the original birth certificate.
Millennials Prefer Private Schools Yet Vote Against School Choice
More than 7 in 10 millennial parents support the ability of parents to control their child’s education spending. But they keep voting for politicians who refuse to give parents that power.
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