Family

The Lesson of Netflix’s ‘Unknown Number’ Is That Parents Hold the Power to Protect—or Destroy 28
- Entertainment, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- September 8, 2025
(Spoiler Alert: Revealing information about the show will be discussed in this article.) Netflix’s recent hit-documentary, ‘Unknown Number: The Highschool Catfish’ is truly horrific. Not in a violent way, though. ‘Unknown Number’ is no slasher flick nor war drama. No, the horror factor in ‘Unknown Number’ comes in witnessing just how dramatically a parent fails
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‘If You Don’t Have to Throw the Kids in the Bathtub, They Haven’t Played Hard Enough.’31
- Culture, Education, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- September 3, 2025
A guard in a Wabash, Ind., prison gave me that title. The prison was featured in a 2017 video, “Free the Kids—Dirt Is Good,” where inmates are permitted two precious hours a day outdoors. The short film contrasts that privilege with data showing that children spend less than an hour a day outside their house. At
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Feminists Learn the Wrong Lesson From Taylor Swift’s Engagement 26
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- September 2, 2025
Taylor Swift is engaged to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, and the internet is chock full of hot takes on her relationship, her upcoming marriage, and the takeaways from both. Keyboard warriors are busy making sense of it all – “Kelce is making a huge mistake,” “Swift is a trad wife now,” “the
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We Should Mourn, Not Laugh, at Broken Marriages 35
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- August 29, 2025
Hollywood has long been in the business of minimizing marriage. Every sitcom I’ve ever seen must, it seems, regularly joke about how marriage is a prison, a trap, a why-did-we-ever-get-married bad idea. So it is in “The Roses,” a new release starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman. In “The Roses,” we are thrust immediately into a
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Rekindling Romance in a Politically Correct Age 18
- Culture, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- August 26, 2025
On a midsummer’s morning, a close friend and I met for coffee. Anne is married, retired, and the mother of four and grandmother of several. Although we talk often by phone, nearly two years had passed since we’d last seen each other, and we’d both, well, softened with age. For a while, we sipped our
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Making Good Men Is Not Rocket Science 22
- Education, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- August 20, 2025
In “Meditations: Book X:16,” the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote: “Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” For several decades now, our culture has served as a battleground over the meaning of manhood. Some attack males for displaying “toxic masculinity,” or advocate that men become more like women, expressing
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