Marriage & Family
April 22, 2025
By Jim Mishler, NewsMax - Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took to the airwaves Sunday to continue his attempt to get more attention focused on the factors that cause autism... Kennedy appeared on a New York radio show to continue pushing for more scientific analysis on the cause of autism. Kennedy said, “This is an epidemic. It dwarfs the COVID epidemic and the impacts on our country because COVID killed old people. Autism affects children and affects them at the beginning of their lives, the beginning of their productivity,” according to The Hill.
April 17, 2025
By Andrea M. Picciotti-Bayer, National Catholic Register - On Easter Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a case brought by a group of parents from Montgomery County, Maryland, who object to the indoctrination of their pre-K-through-eighth-grade children. The courageous defense of their children’s formation in Mahmoud v. Taylor can advance both religious freedom and parental rights under the law in our public schools... In the fall of 2022, the Montgomery County Board of Education decided to weave a collection of LGBTQ+-inclusive storybooks throughout the literature curriculum for their youngest learners.
April 16, 2025
By Joy Pullmann, The Federalist - For decades, the U.S. medical system has delivered amphetamines to skyrocketing numbers of Americans without clear evidence a defined disorder exists or of any long-term effects, says a New York Times Magazine article out Sunday. One in nine American children has an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder diagnosis now, including nearly a quarter of 17-year-old American boys. This record number is more than triple the diagnoses in the mid-1990s, says the Times.
April 16, 2025
By Hannah Hiester, LifeNews - The percentage of childless U.S. adults who say they never want children has doubled over the span of 20 years, rising from 14% in 2002 to 29% in 2023, a new study discovered... The research, performed by a team at Michigan State University, used data from the National Survey of Family Growth to analyze 80,000 adults’ attitudes toward having children, MSUToday reported. In addition to fewer people desiring children, the percentage of childless adults who plan to have children in the future also fell, going from 79% to 59% across the same time frame.
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