Family

So, You Want to Be a Traditional Wife? Here’s How.2
- Culture, Family
- January 30, 2024
More and more women are fearlessly declaring their desire to live more traditionally—to get married, have children, and create a family. Women all over the globe are waking up to the lie that we can “have it all.” Of course, it takes work, planning, and cooperation to build a healthy marriage and a happy family.
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Battles We Can Win: Family, Morality, Education 2
- Family, Culture, Education, Featured
- January 30, 2024
In “Burke on Our Crisis of Character,” which appeared in the December 2023 issue of Chronicles, Bruce Frohnen notes, “The American Way was real, rooted in families whose rights trumped the demands of the state because families were more natural and fundamental than the state.” The following month in the same magazine, Stephen Baskerville reviews
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We Made Kids So Safe That It’s Hurting Them 4
- Family, Culture
- January 26, 2024
Kids need to climb trees, jump off things and ride their bikes fast. That’s what the Canadian Paediatric Society is recommending in a white paper out today: “Healthy childhood development through outdoor risky play.” If that sounds positively radical — and also commonsensical — you’re right. Mariana Brussoni, a developmental psychologist at the University of
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Toronto Bans Tobogganing — and Fun?0
- Family, Culture
- January 19, 2024
Talk about a slippery slope. Toronto recently erected “Tobogganing is not allowed” warnings on 45 hills around the city. The reason for these bans is right there on the sign: “Hazards such as trees, stumps, rocks, rivers or roads make this hill unsafe.” So apparently it is only safe for humans to enjoy an activity
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No, Ladies, We Cannot Have It All 4
- Culture, Family
- January 15, 2024
The phrase “having it all” came from the title of a 1982 book written by Helen Gurley Brown, then editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine. As Antoinette Lattouf, writing in The Guardian in early 2023, put it, this self-help book for women focused on “money, sex, diet, exercise, and appearance.” Notably, it made no mention of children
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Henry Ford’s Pro-Family Initiative That Rocked the World 2
- Economics, Family, History
- January 12, 2024
One hundred and ten years ago this week, a Motor City magnate put his money where his mouth was. On 5 January 1914, Ford Motor Company doubled the wages of employees to $5.00 per day, incentivising assembly-line work. It was Henry Ford’s idea. The Detroit Journal’s headline “Henry Ford Gives Ten Million in 1914 Profits to His
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