Family Life

“A new report finds that students who attend private schools—especially Protestant Christian schools—are more likely to forge successful families as adult men and women.” - TGC

“In its annual Good Childhood Report, released today, the Church of England charity says that 15-year-olds in the UK scored lower levels of life satisfaction than those in 24 other European countries.” - Church Times

“The other side of parental authority is parental obligation to nurture, provide for, protect, and form the child under one’s care.” - Public Discourse

“However you run the numbers, the drop-off since 2008 shows a significant decline in divorce. …More good news is that the percentage of children being raised by their parents in intact, married families is now 62.6%. This 2019 data is up from 61.8% in 2014, with the number going up each year.” - Gene Veith

“As the invaluable Brad Wilcox notes in his recent testimony before the Senate Joint Economic Committee… by several measures American family life is getting better.” - David French

“There is no such thing as a self-made man nor is it possible to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. Those are lies selling us on the destructive myth of personal autonomy; lies reminiscent of Serpent-Satan’s lies to our first parents and the subsequent lie of Cain who dared to mutter to God, ‘am I my brother’s keeper?’” - The Gospel & Poverty

“When it comes to young men without male role models, you’re speaking of young men who not only don’t know how to build a family, they don’t know how to build a career.” - David French

“While family-oriented goals may climb higher on the list of priorities as these respondents move further into adulthood, nearly four in 10 young adults also aim to follow their dreams (38%) and about one in three wants to start a business (36%), travel to other countries (32%) or become financially independent from their parents (30%),” the Barna report noted.

“And, again, researchers found that Christians — as well as Jews and people of no faith — live in the smallest households.

“The challenge of raising a boy, then, should not lie in suppressing their masculine characteristics, but rather in shaping them and channeling them toward virtuous ends.” - David French