Parenting

“Whatever one thinks of the prudence of the lockdowns as a means for containing the virus, they inadvertently doubled as an extreme experiment in what happens to children when they are over-sheltered and over-protected from the outward journeys of daily life. Yet, to a lesser degree, that experiment was already well underway before the pandemic ever began.” - Acton

“while the sneakers themselves are a momentary (yet demented) publicity grab, Lil Nas X’s popularity with little children is deeply alarming. What are the parents thinking?” - Michael Brown

“[Too] much direct engagement can come at a cost to kids’ abilities to control their own attention, behavior and emotions.” - NY Post

“The largest Christian adoption agency is now calling on ‘Christians with diverse beliefs’ as it aims to serve more children under a new inclusion policy.” - C.Today

“46% of fathers reported spending “the right amount” of time with their kids. This marks a 10-percentage-point increase from 2017…. 48% of fathers surveyed last October said they spend ‘too little’ time with their kids. That figure is down significantly from 63% in 2017.” - CPost

“A billboard at a prominent Los Angeles intersection states, ‘Your child is learning about gender identity in school. Puberty is not a medical condition.’ It encourages parents to read Abigail Shrier’s recent book, Irreversible Damage: How the Transgender Craze is Seducing Our Daughters.” - WORLD

“…a major trial is taking place in the United Kingdom around that very question: can and should children be allowed to make life-altering decisions based on their feelings about their gender?: - AiG

“In an address of sweeping historical breadth that quoted everyone from T.S. Eliot and Ronald Reagan to Russell Kirk, Secretary DeVos corrected two widespread misconceptions about U.S. education. First, she exposed the dichotomy between government-run education and family empowerment through choice.

“If Barrett’s nomination succeeds, she’ll become the first woman on the Court who’s a mother to school-age children….What myths do we perpetuate by assuming that Barrett (and women like her) are doing it all and doing it all by themselves?” - C.Today

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