Here’s the good news: Mark and Grace Driscoll have written a perfectly adequate book on marriage. This is not a small accomplishment. Scores of truly dreadful books populate the self-help section of your local bookstore; Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, & Life Together is...

Article written by Andrea Peyser It’s tragic but true. Holly wood speaks. Trailer parks listen. From Los Angeles to Har lem to the Upper East Side, the population went spastic when presidential maybe Mike Huckabee uttered a ticklish truth last week about the rich, preggers and proudly unmarried...

Posted by Jim_Daly on Feb 16, 2011 3:02:42 PM Even if you don’t follow pop culture, you’ve inevitably read or heard of the teen actress Miley Cyrus.  Playing the wholesome character “Hannah Montana” on her popular Disney television show of the same name several years ago, Miss Cyrus was catapulted...

By ERIK ECKHOLM Newly energized by their success in November’s midterm elections, conservative legislators in dozens of states are mounting aggressive campaigns to limit abortions. The lawmakers are drafting, and some have already introduced, bills that would ban most abortions at 20 weeks after...

Throughout 2010, a series of studies and surveys did not bode well for the prospects of marriage and the family in America. First came a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showing that unwed childbearing has reached an all-time high. Currently, four out of 10 babies are born...

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) kicked this year’s War on Christmas into high gear last week when he announced that he wouldn’t participate in Tulsa’s annual “Holiday Parade of Lights” because the city renamed the parade, replacing “Christmas” with “Holiday.” This week, First Baptist Church...

Dear Dr. Linda, It is only November and already my children are hounding us for presents. I worry that they don’t understand the true meaning of the holidays and are only focused on the toys they can get. How can I change this? - Concerned Mom Concerned Mom, Advertisers see children as consumers...

Long after most kids are home, dozens of 6th graders at Elmhurt Community Prep in Oakland are reading, writing and more, until 5 or 6 o’clock. Their academic bankers hours, which often reflect the workday of their parents, is part of an innovative program run by Citizen Schools, a federally-funded...

Though the teen birth rate in the U.S. is once again on the decline, an abstinence education advocate explains why problems still remain with the approach taken on sex education. With the exception of a two-year increase from 2005 to 2007, the teen birth rate has been declining since 1991. But despite...

By JUSTIN WOLFERS Published: October 13, 2010 Washington THE recession has taken a toll on the institution of marriage, we keep hearing. Last month, for instance, when it was reported that the proportion of Americans aged 25 to 34 who are married fell below the proportion who have never married,...