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Four States, One Critical Choice: The Battle Over Abortion on November 3
What happens when voters approve a constitutional amendment without fully understanding its consequences? Missouri offers a sobering example. Just two years after voters narrowly approved a constitutional right to abortion, the state is confronting the far-reaching...
The 2026 Landscape of Marriage, Fertility, and Family Stability in the United States
Doctors can learn a great deal about a patient by checking just a few vital signs. What if a nation has vital signs too? Marriage, fertility, and the number of children growing up with married parents may tell us something important about the health and future of a...
Paying Parents to Parent
Apparently, paying parents to care for their own children is a pretty controversial idea. J.D. Vance’s proposed child-care plan has sparked a firestorm over who deserves government help—and, perhaps more importantly, what we value when it comes to marriage,...
Is Family the Missing Piece in the Loneliness Crisis?
We’ve tried apps, hobbies, self-care, social clubs, pets—and probably more than a few pints of ice cream—to combat loneliness. But what if one of the best antidotes isn’t something new at all? What if it’s something society has been pulling apart? Rather than simply...
When Ideology Replaces Medicine: Money, Medical Fraud, and Detransitioners
When we place a child in the care of a doctor, we assume one thing above all else: that the person in the white coat is guided by the child’s wellbeing—not ideology, institutional pressure, or profit. But what happens when that trust is misplaced? Sometimes the...
America Steps Up for Women, Families, and the Unborn: The Geneva Consensus Declaration Returns to the U.S.
I have to admit, this news made me smile. For years, we’ve been working to encourage countries to embrace the Geneva Consensus Declaration and stand with women and their unborn children. Now the United States is stepping up to lead it again. For the women of the...
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Am I On The Wrong Side of History?
We lost. On a historical scale they are saying. After midterm elections here in the U.S., many of my friends are celebrating, calling it the first day of hope they have had in a while. “Women finally have reproductive freedom and equality!” they say. So I ask myself,...
What Makes A Family Strong When Things Get Hard?
No two families experience hardship in the same way, but every family eventually faces circumstances it did not expect or choose. When returning to the life they had before is no longer possible, what does it mean to move forward?
Teaching Our Families- Free Societies Need Free Speech
The Challenge in a free society is not eliminating differences, but learning how to engage one another respectfully.
The Truth About What Boys Need To Succeed
June 18, 2026 By: Christal Taggart When my boys were growing up, I sometimes joked about wanting to start a Tom Sawyer School for Boys. Instead of sitting at desks all day, students would learn math while building rafts, science while exploring the outdoors, and...
Support For Fathers-How Families and Societies Make A Big Difference
June 8, 2026 By: Christal Taggart From time to time, as our children were growing up, my husband would sit down with each child individually. He would check in to see how they were doing emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually. Looking back, those...
On The Rise-Kids Turning To AI For Artificial Connection
May 21, 2026 By: Christal Taggart When my children were teenagers, we would often pile into our 15-passenger van, and go somewhere as a family. That van was rarely quiet, and we eventually gave it a name: the "Van-O-Fun." It was filled with overlapping conversations,...
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