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Are biological fathers or unrelated men more dangerous for children?

This article from the Weekly Standard answers the question. Excerpt: A March 1996 study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics contains some interesting findings that indicate just how widespread the...

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Welfare cash used to purchase marijuana in Colorado

National Review has the story. Excerpt: For the past six months, welfare beneficiaries in Colorado have repeatedly withdrawn their cash benefits at marijuana retailers and dispensaries, according to a...

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Stephen Baskerville: five myths about no-fault divorce

From the Catholic News Agency. Introduction: Almost four decades after the “no-fault” divorce revolution began in California, misconceptions abound. Even the many books about divorce, including myriad...

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Should women who get pregnant after premarital sex expect the men to marry them?

Mike Adams on abortion: click for larger image. Professor Mike S. Adams is pro-life, but he posted something on Facebook that I must disagree with. He posted this: Over 80% of post-abortive women said...

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UK social policies undermine work and family while rewarding hedonism and sloth

Dina tweeted this article by Jill Kirby from the UK Daily Mail, which helps to show how government can punish good behavior, and reward destructive behavior – simply by transferring wealth. Look: Over...

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109,631,000 Americans collect welfare, more than full-time year-round workers

From CNS News. Excerpt: 109,631,000 Americans lived in households that received benefits from one or more federally funded “means-tested programs” — also known as welfare — as of the fourth quarter of...

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Does a ban on “assault weapons” reduce gun violence?

From the freaking New York Times, of all places. Excerpt: Over the past two decades, the majority of Americans in a country deeply divided over gun control have coalesced behind a single proposition:...

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If you care about the poor, must you vote for bigger government?

Here’s an article on the Daily Signal that traces the history of big government “solutions” to poverty, and argues that big government has not been able to solve the poverty problem no matter how much...

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Jennifer Roback Morse on the injustice of the American family court system

Here is an article by marriage-defender Jennifer Roback Morse about one of the biggest challenges to life-long married love. Excerpt: Easy divorce opens the door for an unprecedented amount of...

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Study: recessions result in lower birth rates

A new study from Princeton University caught my eye. Excerpt: […][N]ew research from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs shows that women who were in their...

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Ross Douthat: challenges facing the modern family, and some pro-family policy...

This is from the Family Studies blog. It’s an interview with moderately conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. I just want to highlight the problem and a couple of his solutions. If you...

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Obama on stay-at-home moms: “that’s not a choice we want them to make”

Breitbart reports: During a speech in Rhode Island today, President Obama stressed the importance of public pre-school in America, pointing out that the cost of daycare was getting too high. “Moms and...

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What is the greatest achievement of the Obama administration?

Newsbusters reports on the greatest accomplishment of the Obama administration. Excerpt: (links removed) It is clear that a huge amount of growth in SNAP happened under Obama’s watch. Increases in the...

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The biggest driver of income inequality is single motherhood

Welfare and out-of-wedlock births Indian economist Aparna Mathur, whose work I’ve featured here before, writes about it in Forbes magazine. Excerpt: The fabric of our society is changing. In 1980,...

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Jacqueline C. Rivers: we need to fix the black out-of-wedlock birth rate

Here is her article from the Public Discourse. Excerpt: Despite the determined pursuit of marital unions by freed people, enduring patterns of non-normative male-female relationships had been created...

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As Christianity declines in Europe, churches are put up for sale

This sad story is from the Wall Street Journal. Excerpt: Two dozen scruffy skateboarders launched perilous jumps in a soaring old church building here on a recent night, watched over by a mosaic...

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Stephen Baskerville: five myths about no-fault divorce

From the Catholic News Agency. Introduction: Almost four decades after the “no-fault” divorce revolution began in California, misconceptions abound. Even the many books about divorce, including myriad...

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Puerto Rico debt crisis will impact U.S. investors

Which financial companies hold Puerto Rico debt? Pay attention to this article from Investors Business Daily if you have investments. It says: With the financial world transfixed by Greece’s...

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Man suspected of influencing Tunis attack collecting welfare in UK

It’s not their money, so it can be wasted This is from the UK Telegraph. Excerpt: A leader of the terrorist group suspected of being behind the Tunisian beach massacre is living in benefits in Britain....

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Is the root cause of crime poverty or fatherlessness?

Marriage and family If we were really serious about stopping crime, then we should go after the root cause of crime. So what is that root cause? The answer might surprise you. Here is Dr. Robert Rector...

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Is the answer to multiple victim shootings more gun control, or less...

Did the family background of Dylann Roof have anything to do with his desire to commit a violent crime? This article from The Federalist has some answers. (H/T ECM) It says: As more information slowly...

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New study: social welfare programs encourage low-income Americans not to marry

Does government provide incentives for people to NOT get married? I don’t think anyone disagrees that it’s good for society if the next generation of young workers are raised in a home where their...

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Five liberal Democrat policies that hurt minorities

Marriage and Poverty The five policies are: higher minimum wage rates opposition to school voucher programs releasing criminals from jail affirmative action single mother welfare This article is by...

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UK Guardian claim: religious children are meaner than non-religious children

A conflict of worldviews Here’s what the the radically secular and leftist UK Guardian had to say about a recent study: Children from religious families are less kind and more punitive than those from...

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Are Christians who use other people’s money to help others “generous”?

Gross public debt, Democrats control spending in 2007 Normal Americans who work for a living know that you cannot be generous with someone else’s money – you have to earn your own money and give your...

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Underage teen girl forced into daily sex by Muslim “grooming” gang in...

Muslim populations in Europe I’ve covered this story before, but there are some new details about the alleged sexual abuse from the trial. This was reported in the radically leftist UK Guardian, of all...

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New study: children from broken homes more likely to have mental health issues

Do children do as well when they are raised by single parents or step families? This was reported in the UK Telegraph. Excerpt: Children brought up by single parents and in step families are three...

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Republican governor of blue state gets 70% of welfare recipients back to work

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) This article is from the Daily Signal, and it clearly explains what happens when a blue state hits rock bottom and has to elect a Republican governor to clean up the...

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373 children were victims of UK Muslim sex trafficking gang in Oxfordshire

The UK Labour Party This is reported by the ultra-leftist BBC, so they are very politically correct. They write: As many as 373 children may have been targeted for sex by gangs of men in Oxfordshire in...

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Why do liberals constantly talk about sexism, racism, homophobia and so on?

Here is a must-read post from Lindsay, writing at her Lindsay’s Logic blog. She writes: Many people don’t notice this, but liberals always speak of people by the group they belong to – African...

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Should blacks vote for Democrats? Do liberal policies help young black men?

I want to quote from two black economists – my two favorite economists – to answer some questions. First, Thomas Sowell. Economist Thomas Sowell Is minimum wage good for young blacks? He writes:...

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Study: children are safest when they live with their two married biological...

Marriage is the safest environment for children Story from Family Studies. It says: Young people are less likely to be victims of crime if they live in two-parent than in single-parent households. That...

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Do tax hikes, welfare spending and minimum wage hikes lower income inequality?

Here’s Heritage Foundation economist Stephen Moore to explain. He writes: Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently appeared on one of the late night talk shows, beating the class warfare drum and...

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What UK Prime Minister David Cameron will do, and an extra thing that he...

CON = 331 (+24), LAB = 232 (-26), SNP = 56 (+50), LIB = 8 (-47), UKP = 1 (+1), OTH = 22 Here’s an article from the radically leftist UK Independent, which is furious with the Conservative Party victory...

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The biggest driver of income inequality is single motherhood

Does government provide incentives for people to NOT get married? Indian economist Aparna Mathur, whose work I’ve featured here before, writes about it in Forbes magazine. Excerpt: The fabric of our...

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As Christianity declines in Europe, churches are put up for sale

I have a key that will unlock a puzzling mystery This sad story is from the Wall Street Journal. Excerpt: Two dozen scruffy skateboarders launched perilous jumps in a soaring old church building here...

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Stephen Baskerville: five myths about no-fault divorce

Marriage and family From the Catholic News Agency. Introduction: Almost four decades after the “no-fault” divorce revolution began in California, misconceptions abound. Even the many books about...

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Kansas enacts law to attach work requirement to welfare benefits

Kansas governor Sam Brownback This story is from the Daily Signal, and it’s about a new (April 2015) Kansas law that produced great effects in the last year. It says: Over the past several years, the...

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Arthur Brooks: why is the American public shifting from optimism to envy?

Labor Force Participation down to 62.8% An editorial by Arthur Brooks appeared today in the leftist New York Times. His topic is the shift from optimism to envy, why it is happening, and whether envy...

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European countries generously fund terrorism suspects with welfare

Muslim populations in Europe This is from the Washington Free Beacon. Excerpt: Several terrorist suspects were collecting Belgian welfare benefits while plotting attacks in Paris and Brussels,...

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Five liberal Democrat policies that hurt minorities

Marriage and Poverty The five policies are: higher minimum wage rates opposition to school voucher programs releasing criminals from jail affirmative action single mother welfare This article is by...

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UK judge sentences radical Islamist imam who lived on welfare to 20 years in...

Democrats think that the real threat to America is not radical Islamic terrorism This story is from the UK Telegraph. Excerpt: A senior judge has challenged Islamist extremists who live on benefits...

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Every immigrant without a high school degree will cost taxpayers $640,000

Major welfare programs as of 2012 I am very much in favor of expanding and streamlining immigration processes for skilled immigrants, especially for areas where there is more demand than supply. But I...

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Why is it so hard for a working man to provide for a family these days?

Welfare spending Here’s my argument which answers the question: Feminism was behind no-fault divorce. Making it easier to divorce means that more divorces will occur. Marital instability causes women...

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New study: cohabitating parents twice as likely to split up as married parents

SurveyMonkey election poll cross tabs for unmarried women Nov 2016 This was reported by the Daily Signal. It says: Children born to unmarried, cohabiting parents—both in the United States and across...

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Trump signs bill to allow states to drug-test applicants for unemployment...

Ted Cruz and and his supportive wife Heidi I liked this story, because not only did it talk about Ted Cruz, but it also shows a major difference between Republicans and Democrats. The story is from the...

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Why is it so hard for a working man to provide for a family these days?

Welfare spending Here’s my argument which answers the question: Feminism was behind no-fault divorce. Making it easier to divorce means that more divorces will occur. Marital instability causes women...

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Welfare program usage drops 85% after work requirement reinstated

This story is from National Review, and it really made me think about where all the money that I’ve paid in taxes over the years has gone. Excerpt: After Alabama reinstated food-stamp work...

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Young workers are paying Social Security taxes but will they ever collect...

What if we had no money for anything except interest and entitlements? The way Social Security taxes work is that you pay 12.4% of your salary, and another 2.9% for Medicare. That’s 15.3%, before any...

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How secularism and socialism killed marriage and family in Canada

Marriage and family This is actually a news article from National Post, the more prestigious and less progressive of Canada’s two national newspapers. Excerpt: Couples without kids are outpacing their...

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