Family

The collapse of marriage drives child poverty and government dependence. Census data show married families earn a median income near $114,000 while single-mother households earn about $45,000. Churches and parents must rebuild a culture that honors husbands, wives, and children.

American culture has spent decades treating fathers as comic relief. The data tells a different story. Children raised with involved fathers do better in school, stay out of trouble, and form healthier families of their own.

Public schools increasingly treat children as wards of the state instead of members of families bound by faith. Parents have the right and duty to direct the moral upbringing of their children. When schools hide social transitions from families, they break the natural order.

The collapse of married fatherhood has done more harm to children than any tax policy or curriculum fight. Churches, schools, and neighborhoods must rebuild the expectation that fathers stay, lead, and love.

Schools in multiple states are hiding gender lessons and sexual content from families. Parents have a right to know, a right to opt out, and a right to expect schools to stop treating children as wards of the state.

Public schools have spent another spring hiding gender transition plans from families, and the damage to children and trust is now plain for every parent to see.

Mainline denominations have spent two decades trimming biblical teaching to fit fashion, and the result is empty pews, broken homes, and a culture that treats children as accessories. It is time for faithful congregations to speak plainly again.

Pew's longitudinal data on faith transmission across generations tracks a pattern that scripture itself warned about. The pattern is not new. The work to interrupt it is the work in front of every Christian family.

Francis Mauigoa is about to join his brother Kiko in the NFL. Their story is everything the coastal press claims to love, and somehow never tells right.

Researchers say cheating rates may be lower than we think. Good for the numbers. The question no study can answer is what happens to the children who grow up in homes where commitment was always conditional.

Somewhere out there, Nancy Guthrie's family is still fighting for answers. When families refuse to quit, the least the rest of us can do is listen.