Family Life

“Virtual meetings and other online options are more accessible than ever before thanks to the pandemic. And they may help a hesitant family take that first – and sometimes most difficult – step in the process” - BPNews

“A documentary that premiered at the Rome Film Festival on Wednesday included Pope Francis speaking in support of legal civil unions for homosexual couples. ‘Homosexual people have the right to be in a family. They are children of God….What we have to have is a civil union law; that way they are legally covered.’” - WORLD

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“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.