Dutch Proposal to Penalize Stay-At-Home Moms

An official with the Population Research Institute says a proposed law in the Parliament of the Netherlands discriminates against educated women who choose not to work outside the home.
The Institute's vice president of communications, Joseph D'Agostino, says a prominent… Read More

Narnia Movie True to the Book

An official with an organization that trains Christians for Hollywood says parents need to take their children to see The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe when it is released in early December.
The widely acclaimed… Read More

STD Facts Belie Condom Crowd’s Safe-Sex Rhetoric

The director of the Culture and Family Institute says the rise in a couple of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is proof that so-called “safe sex” does not work to prevent the spread of venereal diseases. Federal health officials say syphilis… Read More

Book Examines Divorce’s Impact, Lifelong Effects on Children

Best-selling author Elizabeth Marquardt notes that two thirds of today's divorces are ending what could be called low-conflict marriages. Nevertheless, despite the common belief of many contemporary couples and self-styled experts, she insists there is no such thing as a… Read More

Medical Ethicist Describes Holland’s Inevitable Progress from Mercy Killing to Murder

Burke Balch, director of the Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics of the National Right to Life Committee, says the Netherlands is no longer sliding down a slippery slope, but rather has fallen off a moral cliff as the medical… Read More

Study Shows In-Classroom TV Ads Promote Tobacco Use Among Youth

The executive director of Commercial Alert, a group dedicated to protecting children from commercialism, says schools are unwittingly promoting tobacco use to millions of students.
Gary Ruskin says Channel One — an in-school television program promoted as news — is… Read More

Underage Drinking

Research indicates that, between 2001 and 2003, American teenagers were 96 times more likely to see a television promotion for an alcoholic product than an ad warning against underage drinking. The research director of the Center on Alcoholic Marketing and… Read More

Doubts About Study Indicating Ritalin-Cancer Link

A pediatrician in Illinois says he's a bit skeptical of a small Texas study reporting a higher risk of cancer from Ritalin. Dr. Nick Yates, a spokesman for the Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA), says there are a number… Read More

Why Do Americans Rank #1 in Mental Illness?

A recent study on the mental health of Americans says in the past year, one in four people in the United States met the criteria for having a mental illness. According to head researcher Ronald Kessler, that would seem to… Read More

Michigan Pro-Life Measure Would Offer Women an Informed ‘Choice’

A pro-life lawmaker in Michigan says anyone who says they are “pro-choice” ought to have no problem with his bill that would require abortion providers to give women the opportunity to view ultrasound images of their babies.
Representative David Robertson… Read More

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