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What “hooking up” does to your odds of a successful marriage
Ann Bailey Young adults are still interested in having a happy life-long marriage. Survey after survey reflects this truth. Yet a “hook up culture” continues to flourish and that doesn’t bode well for the future of stable marriage. So what’s a “hook up?” Here’s a...
Fighting for “Happily Ever After”
Annalise Harker Once upon a time, in a land not far away, a young girl worked on washing a sink full of dirty dishes while singing “Someday My Prince Will Come” from the movie Snow White that she had just finished watching. As she scrubbed and sang, this young girl’s...
Did you hear about the World Congress of Families?
Diane Robertson The 7th World Congress of Families (WCF) convened in Sydney, Australia May 15 – 18. Founded by the Howard Centre for Family, Religion and Society in Rockford, Illinois, WCF seeks to combat the anti-family ideologies now dominating the Western world....
Is there Entropy in Your Life?
Maggie Gillel Entropy : a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system’s disorder; a process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder; chaos, disorganization,...
The Way We Speak to Our Children…
Aubrey Wood & Kirstie Steel Many of us would be appalled if we were in a grocery store and watched as a parent smacked the back of their child’s head for the offense of reaching for a box of cookies the parent had just denied. But how many of us would feel the...
The Dropout epidemic
Kristi Kane My daughter who is graduating from high school this month announced to me that many of her friends are not. Tonight my husband and I took our boys and their friends to a movie and saw one of our girls' friends. She works at the theater. She had played...