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Marriage & Family – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Marriage & Family

March 27, 2025

Study: When Fewer Parents Are Married, Poverty And Violence Skyrocket, by Anna Kaladish Reynolds

By Anna Kaladish Reynolds, The Federalist - Fractured families have contributed to a rise in child poverty, violence in our communities, and poor educational outcomes. That’s the already well-established finding of the 2025 Hope and a Future report from Center for Christian Virtue (CCV). While the statistics are bleak, the report also points to a solution: In order to address the sharp rise in child poverty, violence, and poor educational outcomes, states should incentivize married parents and support intact families.
March 27, 2025

How Fear Leads to Failure, by Dr. Donald DeMarco

By Dr. Donald DeMarco, Catholic Exchange - Fear is a fundamental feature of our life.  It cannot be eradicated.  It differs from pain insofar as it anticipates something and is not experienced directly.  It is an anxiety about what might happen.  Existential philosophers refer to fear as rooted in our very existence.  They refer to it as “existential anxiety.”  Therefore, it is normal.  But how we respond to fear is another thing... When Karol Wojtyla became Pope John Paul II, the first thing he said to his people was, “Do not be afraid.”  This is all good advice, but how does one overcome fear, and what are the consequences of allowing fear to have its way?
March 25, 2025

Protecting Kids Online Means Empowering Parents, by Ken Blackwell 

By Ken Blackwell, Patriot Post - App stores must secure parental approval and age verification before a minor under 16 years old can download an app of any kind... When I was growing up in Ohio in the 1960s, there was no such thing as a private teenage world. My friends and I all knew each other’s parents, and we were held accountable for our speech and our behavior by a network of moms and dads who knew one another. While local communities were knit more closely together back then, things are very different in America today. ...
March 20, 2025

Sacrificing Truth at the Altar of Gender Ideology, by Scott Ventureyra

By Scott Ventureyra, Crisis Magazine - On February 5, three prominent biologists and presidents of major biological associations wrote a letter to President Trump and Congress opposing his January 2025 Executive Order 14168, titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” The letter alleges that scientific evidence contradicts the binary view of sex by emphasizing the complexity of sex determination involving chromosomes, hormones, and anatomy, and highlighting variations that suggest sex and gender are not strictly binary traits.

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