Marriage & Family

For Marriage: Let’s Get Ready to Rumble

by Ken Connor May 16, 2012

Oh, the irony of it all.  For the past two years, the Republican establishment has been insisting that the only effective way to beat President Obama in 2012 is to set contentious social issues aside and focus like a laser…

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Hidden Motherhood

by Cassie Everts May 16, 2012

With another Mother’s Day that has come and gone I am filled with mixed emotions. I feel much gratitude and joy for my amazing mother and grandmother who have helped to shape me into the woman I am today. At…

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Obama Devolves

by Robert R. Reilly May 14, 2012

Both Vice-President Joseph Biden and President Barack Obama have said that their positions regarding same-sex marriage have evolved. When you are “evolving,” you should really watch your grammar. Otherwise, people might suspect you are devolving instead.
Take for instance, the…

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Families Will Save the World

by Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. May 7, 2012

Is family breakdown the cause or the cure for the global crisis of population decline? Two new articles in top foreign policy journals raise the question.
“As the flight from marriage and the normalization of divorce has recast living arrangements…

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Religions Pull Together to Defend Marriage

by Michael Kirke May 3, 2012

A suggestion that there might be a more formal and concerted effort by all faith communities in Britain to defend marriage has been made by the representative of the Pope to England, Scotland an Wales. The Daily Telegraph reports today…

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The Best Job in the World

by Carolyn Moynihan April 30, 2012

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With Mother’s Day not far off in many countries (May 13) Proctor & Gamble — a Fortune 500 US firm associated with many household products and a major sponsor of the London Olympics this year — has released this…

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The Economy of Women’s Work

by Rebecca Ryskind Teti April 20, 2012

A left-wing political operative stepped in it last week when she accused the wife of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney of “never working a day in her life.”
In justice, I think political strategist Hilary Rosen was not aiming at…

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Injustice to Children

by Jennifer Morse April 19, 2012

The primary business of the state is justice. Because children cannot be autonomous, adult society has an obligation in justice to provide institutional structures that protect their most basic interests.
I was once a libertarian activist. I was on the…

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Privatizing Marriage Leads to Bigger Government

by Jennifer Morse April 9, 2012

In my previous article, I showed why it is impossible to get the state out of the marriage business. Marriage attaches mothers and fathers to their children and to one another. This is an irreducibly public function. Yet attempting to…

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Privatizing Marriage Is Impossible

by Jennifer Morse April 6, 2012

We cannot escape the fact that marriage is an intrinsically public institution. We can’t avoid making collective decisions about its meaning and purpose. If we don’t do it explicitly, we will end up doing it implicitly.
As a libertarian myself,…

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