What Advice Would Girls Ask from Someone Older?

A Glamour magazinevideo asked a number of girls and women on advice they would want from an older person in their life. Here are some of the questions ...

Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, and the Reality of Imperfection

By most measures, Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift are remarkable women. Intelligent and capable …. Both are the kind of mega pop stars who inspire ...

'Dads on Duty' Show Students Someone Cares

After multiple fights at Southwood High School in Shreveport, Louisiana, resulted in the arrests of 23 students, a group of about 40 dads stepped up to ...

The Cruelty of Unrealistic Teen Beauty Standards

The consequences of the media’s unrealistic beauty standards on teenage girls are alarming. Dr. Jake Linardon, founder of Break Binge Eating and ...

Young Woman Still Needs Her Father’s Love

I spent last week at the beach in Florida, relaxing with my family. The week was for eating fresh seafood, sitting by the beach with my nieces and sister, ...

Girl Reflects on the Consequences of Adam and Eve

My 7-year-old daughter, Jessica, is a deep thinker when it comes to theological questions. Recently we discussed why bad things happen sometimes, re-reading ...

Mother "Fails" Parenting Class

When our daughter, Kathy, was participating in a parenting class at her church, she explained to her 6-year-old daughter, Kayla, that she was taking a ...

"Evening": A Mother's Resilience

Evening is the story of an old dying woman, Ann (played by Vanessa Redgrave). In a series of flashbacks, Ann reflects on the good and bad choices in her ...

Statistics About Marriage and Parenting

The following statistics are from the Pew Research Center's 2008 survey on marriage and parenting:

• Forty-one percent of American adults said children are very important to a good marriage. This represents a sharp decline from the 65 percent who offered the same conviction in a 1990 survey.
  
  

Adults Prefer Families over God

A 2007 study by the Barna Group found that seven out of ten adults choose their earthly family over their heavenly Father when asked to choose the most ...