family

A Simple Formula for Restoring Modern Society 0
- Culture, Family, Philosophy, Religion, Western Civilization
- May 20, 2026
In the 2017 documentary “LOOK & SEE: A Portrait of Wendell Berry,” the great cultural and agricultural writer Wendell Berry stated: We all come from divorce. This is an age of divorce. Things that belong together have been taken apart. And you can’t put it all back together again. What you can do, is the only
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Rising Costs Aren’t Stopping Young Couples From Having Kids 0
- Culture, Economics, Family, Featured, MomThink
- May 20, 2026
It’s no secret that rising costs are devastating Americans right now, and that young people are feeling the brunt of it. For the generation currently starting families, these costs are particularly stressful. Undoubtedly, the prospect of pinching pennies to pay for astronomical labor and delivery bills, car seats, formula, and strollers on top of life’s
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Pronatalism Without Morals Disintegrates in Real Time 0
- Culture, Family, Featured
- January 20, 2026
Elon Musk, a vocal champion of large families, is now in a custody battle with the most recent mother of his children. Musk is no stranger to such battles. He is estranged from his transgender-identified son who publicly calls him a “pathetic man-child.” He fought a years-long custody battle with one of his wives, the mother of
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The Joy of Being the “Default Parent”0
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
- January 10, 2026
Author and mother Gina Bontempo noted on X recently that the online uproar over a woman being the “default parent” in her child’s life smacks of the lie that men and women can, and should, be treated as interchangeable. For those unfamiliar with internet lingo, the phenomenon in question is as old as mothers and
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The Analog-Digital Battle Your Children Need to Win 0
- Culture, Education, Family, Featured, Literature
- December 22, 2025
I recently called attention to Beth McMurtrie’s piece, “Is This the End of Reading?” which discusses the decline of reading in our schools and universities. McMurtrie’s piece ended on a bleak note with comments from a professor who suggested that we’re “entering into a hybrid oral-written culture.” He concluded, “Humanity is going to take its
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Kids Don’t Need to Spend So Much Time in School 6
- Education, Culture, Family, Featured, Western Civilization
- December 3, 2025
When most people hear that my siblings and I graduated high school years ahead of normal, scored high on state-standardized tests, and attended top colleges and universities, they generally assume our schooling was extremely strict, long, and arduous. Our schooling was challenging, but it was never impossible. In fact, I realized only years later how
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