Marriage rates lowest in more than a century
“More people are living together and people are delaying marriage because of the economy,” said Sam Sturgeon of DI.
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Family
Candle-light procession, adoration mark Vatican’s celebration of Pope JPII’s pro-life encyclical
Before the Mass celebrated by Pope Francis, the Vatican also had a full day of events Saturday to celebrate the 1995 pro-life encyclical of Pope John Paul II, the ‘Gospel of Life’. LSN's John-Henry Westen played a role in the evening vigil.
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Indian woman has surprise baby at 60
The 60-year-old Indian woman shocked doctors, and herself, when she unexpectedly gave birth to a healthy 7 lb., 11 oz. baby girl last Thursday.
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Sex ed in New Zealand ‘seriously flawed,’ dangerous: report
Permeating the sexuality education resources was the message that sex is “risky only when it’s ‘unprotected’”. The materials overstated the efficacy of condoms, “in some cases vastly so”.
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Skyrocketing levels of fatherlessness having ‘devastating’ effects on children: UK report
The report found that 130,000 more families are headed by a single parent than in 2006, and an additional 125,000 dependent children are not living with both parents.
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Half a million new STD diagnoses in the last year in the UK
A homosexual campaign group responded to the report saying that the danger is even more serious than the government was admitting.
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Petitions show Croatians want to vote on marriage, but left-leaning government stalls
The government has changed the number of signatures necessary to trigger a national referendum.
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Fathers are not optional to children
This Father’s Day, Americans await the Supreme Court’s decisions this month in two cases challenging state and federal marriage law.
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Fatherlessness in America
Across the nation, over one-quarter of all children live in single-parent households. Most of these children live with their mothers.
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This Won’t Turn Out Well: The IRS prepares to enforce Obamacare’s contraception mandate
On August 1, the one-year “safe harbor” for religious charities objecting to provisions of Obamacare will end. Starting then, these nonprofit employers will be forced to violate their religious beliefs or pay large fines.
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