Family

Our promotion of public life over private life is divorced from reality and it is leading to divisions between the sexes and decreased happiness in life.

We shouldn't dwell in mom guilt, but we also should be wary of trying to wave all of it away. Sometimes it can tell us something important.

When men can't find objects that women say are right in front of their faces, there's a reason for that.

"If we have less children today, we going to have less parents tomorrow, and even less children and so forth, you know?"

The #MeToo movement has brought the realm of sexual relations back full circle so that marriage is the only logical place for sex.

One Canadian doctor is advocating for normalizing euthanasia by having children watch their loved ones voluntarily die.

The transgender train keeps steamrolling over common sense and educational responsibility, as several recent stories demonstrate.

The world is better off than it has ever been. So why do we fill our children with messages of doom and despair, instead of ones of hope?

Are the realities of the current economy making it impossible for the ideal of the nuclear family to exist in 21st century America?

The British royals' approach to parenting is surprisingly down to earth, and their low tech approach to entertainment might be what we all need.

Practicing a religion has many positive affects for you and your family, but how you practice your faith matters almost as much as having one to begin with.

The TradWife movement is a valuable reminder about the fulfilling nature of working in service toward others, instead of just serving ourselves.

Perhaps there’s still hope for American masculinity.

Five of the biggest lessons I’ve gleaned from five years of balancing motherhood with freelance work.

The Trad Wife movement has drawn the ire of feminists. Shouldn't we allow women to stay in the home if its what makes them happy?

Some easy ways families can work together, live below their means, and build meaningful connections with one another.

It's possible that modern parents are doing their children a disservice by constantly striving to ensure they are not bored.

The message of Netflix's "Marriage Story" is not one of liberation, but one of deep-rooted narcissism that tells us marriage is a trivial affair.

Super Bowl LIV's half time show was an introduction to pornography for a large segment of America who just wanted to watch a football game with their family.

Dads today are much different than they used to be, and neither conservatives nor liberals quite know what to make of this change.

Kobe Bryant's letter to his younger self reveals a great deal about the economic realities of modern American society and human nature.

Why is media glamorizing female violence against men? Surely all violence is to be discouraged... right?

Drag Queen Story Hour started on the West Coast and has spread at an alarming rate to schools and libraries across the United States.

A society such as ours which “embraces total sexual freedom” soon comes to ruin.

American parents are ready to bend over backwards to enable their kids' food autonomy. Could this be the exact opposite of what they should be doing?

As hard as it may be to believe, women use men as much as men use women, and women want babies as much as men want sex.

An NPR story aired last week with the headline, “How Should We Regulate Homeschooling?” Short answer: “We” shouldn’t.

Parental burnout is a serious problem, but is it one that we could solve simply by stepping back, taking stock, and readjusting the way we approach it?

When you have an argument, what do you look for from your partner? Emotional support can be good, but there are downsides.

The world is waking up to the problem of low fertility rates, as the demographics of America shift dramatically towards the elderly and towards immigrants.

The staff at Intellectual Takeout participated in a highly non-scientific poll to crown our favorite Christmas movies. What are your Christmas favorites?

Women are starting to propose to their boyfriends. What's behind this trend and can we expect it to continue?

There are reasons why you don't know many people who have their birthday on Christmas, or New Years Day, or April Fools' Day.

Americans are experiencing an epidemic of loneliness, and at no time is that more presently felt than during the holidays, especially for older Americans.

A new documentary reveals in stunning detail the horrors visited upon China by the totalitarian policies of the country's Communist leadership.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims that dogs have more time to spend with their mothers than human children do. Is she right?

From "Baby, its Cold Outside" to "Santa Baby", Christmas songs are replete with bad examples of love. We should look elsewhere for marital virtue.

From Drag Queen Story Hour to swimming pool locker rooms, we need to stop the abomination of our society's march to sexualize children.

This passage seems to be overlooked when creating "Little Women" for the feminist mind.

Your kid might be begging for a new cell phone for Christmas, but there are some things you should consider before you pull the trigger on that purchase.

The behavior of people outside of the transgender movement may be contributing to the increasing trend of gender transitions.

When Chambers rejected the Communist philosophy of faith in man and embraced faith in God, he had what he viewed as his first Christmas.

Parents keep trying to get their children to like them by accommodating their kids views. It's not working.

If socialists had their way, Thanksgiving and other family holidays would go the way of the dodo bird.

What’s the connecting factor in teenage mass shooters, after all? It’s not playing football. It’s missing a father. And what do fathers do? They teach young boys how to become men.

All life is precious, but more kids are waiting for adoption and a third who age out of foster care end up homeless.

While society condemns toxic masculinity, it is important that we remember the sacrifice of heroes such as those portrayed in "Saving Private Ryan."

Many people believe the lack of a supermarket causes people to eat unhealthily, but research finds that poor eating habits are more complicated than that.

Parents often think praise encourages their children, but it could be teaching them bad habits that could cost them later in life.

There is something very, very wrong when the government starts creating incentives that push moms out of the home and into the workforce when they don’t want to be there.

Is Thanksgiving, as the American left would frame it, merely a holiday celebrating the oppression of the Native Americans by European settlers?

It's not student loan debt, or non-family-friendly employment policies. 

What do women want? It's complicated. 

Might our children be better prepared for future successes if they grew up spending more time with their parents, within the more relaxed and comfortable atmosphere of the family?

Frozen II might never have recaptured the magic of the first. Thanks to a woke politics heavy plot, it's now sure to fail in that regard.

Based on current technology, the ability for parents to genetically engineer their babies' traits is still a far off prospect.

Thanksgiving discussions are best when warm, rather than too hot or cold. 

Millennials and Gen Z are paying a lot more into Social Security than baby Boomers did, and they won't even see the benefits later in life.

Why is it that older generations feel so comfortable criticizing how kids behave and dissecting the parenting styles of younger parents?

Family dinners have been on the decline in America in recent years. But there's a lot of benefits to be gained from families eating together.

Educating includes how we shape our children's reading choices. 

Women and children are being bought and sold on the fertility and surrogacy markets. There are many problems with this trade, and these are just a few of them.

Friend matchmakers are now a thing. Why do we have so much trouble making friends on our own?

Is it really worth it to have a baby? One podcast examines the ups and downs of parenting as a couple figures out if they want children of their own.

A society that has abandoned religion, as ours has done, also fears death, which in turn leads to contempt for older generations.

The rejection of our culture's archetypical and actual fatherhood leaves us all orphans searching for meaning. 

Perhaps we make parenting more complicated than we need to. 

What does the closing of a major retailer of maternity clothes indicate about our demographics?

Melania Trump is a model first lady. We can learn a lot from her humility. 

IVF porn is one of those sordid things that everyone knows about but no one has the stomach to talk about.

Society will pay if we don't value parents; should we start now? 

Here's a great way to teach kids about markets. 

It's not by walking away. 

Hospitality doesn't have to be Pinterest perfect, but it should be presentable. 

Girls need to know that they have a choice when they stand on the threshold of adulthood, and that it’s perfectly acceptable to solely choose the so-called old-fashioned, unpopular way.

A transgender teenager is being allowed to continue a transition from female to male, in spite of her father's objections and request for further information.

We tolerate adult pornography, but not child sexual abuse imagery. Why? 

Social Demographers: 'Mental health benefits of cohesive family relationships during adolescence last through midlife.'

In today's world it's important to remember pets are an addition to a family, not a replacement.

With freer kids, we might just gain a freer society.

Evidence suggests it is not simply a question of rising costs. 

Marriage is growing rare, even obsolete. It might be because of Romanticism. 

Could the revival of good, solid, supportive fathers sound the death knell for our self-absorbed society?

Greta needs time to grow.

In our concern for endemic loneliness, let's remember middle-aged men. 

If we want schools to be surrogate parents, then perhaps we must accept the increased expenditures which come with more staff.

Should we respond to the pain of infertility by making some mothers into birthers? What are the consequences for defining mother or child?

Many American students measure their success and self-worth by their grades. How did we get to this point?

There's hope for the entitlement culture.

More than one-in-five American college students experiences severe depression, a sharp increase from a decade ago. What's causing this troubling trend?

Medical professionals are bullying parents into conforming to transgender expectations of medical treatment, without the full background information they need.

Falling out of love does not mean that the thrill of romance will never return.

The honorable goal of preventing children's deaths has unitended consquenes when government regulations come into play.

It’s that time of year and that time of life.

Is it time our society grew up?

We are letting our children down with our desire for quick fixes and convenient “solutions” that don’t come close to identifying underlying problems.

“Where are the good Christian men?” That question is being asked by single Christian women across America.

Kim Brooks suggests that childhood has been ruined by many culprits including screens, food, and lack of play. But she also believes that our approach to child-rearing has undergone a dramatic change.

Thackeray was a brilliant observer of human nature. His advice on how to raise children deserves to be taken into consideration.

From its origins as a movement of hope and support, some of these sites today are the domain of frustrated males who rage against women, successful men, and society in general.

In response to the wave of mass killings this year, it’s being shouted at any available political figure.

Why have we rejected classic children’s books for the chaotic mess of modern children's books?

For their unorthodox views, some physicians are being treated as medical heretics. Google’s search engine algorithm has essentially ended traffic to their websites.

Before you choose to birth strike for the uncertain good of the planet, it might be wise to consider these almost-certain truths.

One in ten Americans meet their spouse at work. However, in the mid-1990s, almost twice as many Americans met their spouse at work.

A top British judge takes a crack at answering.

Christine Lindstrom and her family have been a part of the roadschooling movement for the last three years.

Frank Beard's “30 Days of Gas Station Food” experiment shows that Americans enjoy a a bevy of nutritious food options, even in the places we least expect them.

Rather than criticizing teenagers as lazy and in need of more control and structure, we should recognize the ways our culture infantilizes its teens.

Listening to “Baby Shark” is akin to torture. Yet somehow that song has racked up a staggering three billion views on YouTube. Who is watching it? Why aren’t parents...

Feminists go ballistic over a romantic incident.

Reclaiming our common humanity in the art of classic movie storytelling

Kathy Zhu has shown that political correctness conquered beauty pageants.

Taylor Swift's most recent music video portrays American Christians as toothless know-nothings. This isn't satire; this is propaganda.

If mass migration advocates were truly concerned about the plight of children, they would reexamine U.S. policies that incentivize foreign nationals to come to the border.

The idea that parents get in the way of children’s education and can halt their flourishing is nothing new. It's also false.

Read more

The Little Mermaid is a great story that teaches how to deal with unrequited love.

We've created a culture that suggests basic life skills are beyond the young's comprehension.

Natural fertility takes over the App Store.

It’s unclear why the NEA would vote against re-dedicating itself to “increased student learning."

The U.S. national women’s soccer team is good at two things: making divisive political statements and nagging us about not getting paid enough.

When viewed analytically—based on how much money they generate—women in soccer actually make more than men.

Relax! Flying with kids is actually not that big of a deal.

The sober curious are challenging the belief you need alcohol as a social lubricant.

How much influence should an ancient text have on the way modern people lead their lives?

Mayor de Blasio’s policies keep New York City kids trapped in violent, chronically failing schools.

Tara Blair Ball has taught for nine years. And she hates teaching.

Only parents can demand accountability from school systems and set boundaries around their children.

We’re not perfect, and neither were the Hobbits. Deep friendships take time, energy, and forgiveness.

Storytelling is surely among the most ancient of the arts.

Many young people, I suspect, labor under the expectations of others regarding their choice of a career.

Is there value in parents taking children to fine, upscale places and having them practice being adults for a little while?

Ever since I started my crime show binge, I constantly ask myself why I watch these shows.

The graying of American growers is a troublesome development, but that doesn’t mean all is lost.

The ban may overlook how and why advertising works.

If nothing else, should we at least stop and consider that there hasn’t been much opportunity to see how childhood social media attention impacts kids long-term when they enter adulthood?

Handicrafts assist children in their character development.

If you want your child to have a rich and fulfilling life, one of the best things you can do is help build your child’s vocabulary.

Underneath its unoriginal premise, a Netflix show toys with the idea of giving the human race a complete reset. 

By breaking through boundaries of age segregation, we Millennials can make the elderly—family and otherwise—into our friends and mentors.

Despite massive disruption by online- and mobile-based gaming, many consumers seem to still enjoy the face-to-face interaction and experience of tabletop games.

The key to raising resilient children is avoiding common unhealthy parenting practices.

Honoring its new agreement with the U.S. to adopt new measures to curb illegal immigration, Mexico recently arrested 791 illegal immigrants at its border. 

Even if most of us are still using plastic drinking straws and driving gas-guzzlers, the words of the prophet from Stockholm have not fallen on dry ground.

When schools treat fathers like they don’t exist, it’s not serving students well.

The ideal arrangement for children is that they live with both biological parents 24/7, because no one else has the same vested interest in their health, well-being, and success. 

A new study links anxiety in children with controlling parents.

There is a categorical difference between sending your children to the best school you can afford, for example, and altering their genetic code.

Nearly a quarter of American children grow up in a single mother home. Will yesterday’s fatherless boys have difficulty raising today’s children?

A healthy society would not create a multi-billion-dollar fertility industry at the risk of the health and well-being of women and children.

Most of us know the power of the note, although, if you are like me, you often neglect the opportunity to practice that power.

Perhaps it’s time we stop pretending that men have a monopoly on toxicity.

Homeschooling is all about having the liberty to learn.

Divorce rates dipped in 2018, especially among adults forty-five and younger.

We all want our children to have the quality of resilience, but are we making it difficult for them to obtain?

Young adults have become unwitting victims of a culture whose values have gone drastically awry.

One factor is the increased availability of online entertainment and other digital usage.

Would we see women who are less stressed if they stepped back and allowed men to take more of a pursuer, protector, and provider role in their lives?

Time to put these misconceptions to rest once and for all.

The Nordic countries lead the world in gender equality, but have some of the highest rates of intimate partner violence against women in the EU.

What would happen if we reversed the mundane and made dinner special again?

Women are the happiest when they are in equality-loving, feminist-minded relationships, right? That’s the line we’re often told.

It should not be surprising that if social animals such as humans live alone, this will have a negative impact on their mental health.  

Over the weekend, Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, debuted her garden design for the Chelsea Flower Show. The whole family came along making for some adorable photos.

The good men will be out there eventually, they are just taking a very long time to mature.

What building blocks of virtue make up those men, young and old, who sacrifice themselves so that others may live?

It’s not surprising that even at a time when fewer Americans may be turning to God, they are still looking for their one true soulmate.

Female empowerment says women can be anything they want to be. But can they?

The High Court of the United Kingdom has decreed that social services cannot remove a four-year-old boy who identifies as a girl from a couple who have let “him” transition after sending the child to school in a girl’s uniform.

The birth of Prince Harry's son has caused the British tabloids to take a break from their favorite topic: the alleged feud between Prince Harry and his older brother Prince William.

It’s not just the free market or big government - there’s Big Sister too.

Are dads shirking their duty by committing less time to child care or is there something else at play?

Parenting is hard, but it doesn't have to be a burden.

A virtues project from Narnia.

Here’s the painful truth: society does not consider you to be a legitimate parent when you have only one child.

If we truly want our children to excel in the adult world, is it time we injected the “Curriculum of Family” into schools, giving parents more time to be an influence on their own children?

People never fail to ask me before feeding my kids anything, but I have never had anyone ask my permission before showing my kids a screen.

In having heroes “we make the best features of an historical person’s life” our own.

Our beloved Aaron Wolf passed away suddenly on Easter Sunday. It is a devastating loss to his family and a terrible loss to Chronicles, The Charlemagne Institute, and our cause. 

Childhood exuberance is now a liability.

The tension, the delight, the mystery, the attractions between male and female, romance and courtship, the misunderstandings, the complementarity of various gifts physical, mental, and spiritual: I don’t know about you, but...

This race to the elusive top is causing many young people to experience severe anxiety, depression, and hopelessness.

We aren’t meant for this noisy existence. In silence we are forced to confront that which is not right with ourselves, while in noise we escape.

A young man needs guides, equipment, and maps for his journey. These books, and dozens of others, can serve him as a compass.

Ever been to a Communist Easter egg hunt?

Noah Webster offers some advice for women evaluating suitors.

Today’s young adults continually hear the go-to-college, get-into-grad-school, find-a-good-job mantra thrown at them. But would they find greater success and happiness if we began sounding the get-married mantra earlier in life?

Watching episodes of the 1960's show "The Twilight Zone," I noticed that we used to define adulthood as coming to accept that mankind's negative traits can be ameliorated, but not completely eradicated. 

Unfortunately for men, women are fickle. Many are beginning to realize that a soft, sensitive, elegant man isn’t what they really want.

There’s no manual for becoming a man. Nonetheless, there are concrete steps men can take towards positive masculine ideals.

Young men need authority structures to belong to, and in lieu of that, some are turning to hate.  

Dog owners are willing to spend more on their pets than cat owners – including to save their lives. One reason suggested was that dog owners had stronger bonds to their pets,...

It’s always good to start by asking if you can hold the baby. Some moms would appreciate the help, but they are scared to impose.

It seems likely the FAMILY Act will cost substantially more than advocates claim...

Education freedom begins when government compulsion ends.

Caregiving is important. The mind-numbing, ordinary, unseen, everyday sacrifices have an impact far beyond what we see in the present.

What has our country become that we can tear down the doorway of a family who has a child with a high fever that disagrees with their doctor?

Could it be that we need more boredom?

Tara Westover refuses to admit that if her parents had taken a conventional path, she would not be where she is today.

Is it too risky to bring children into this chaotic world in which we live?

Professor Kerry Cronin and her famous dating class at Boston College are back in the news.

Lots of things poisoned Brenton Tarrant's mind. But why hasn't anyone mentioned divorce?

The American Academy of Pediatrics has unfortunately taken a major step that, if not reversed, will undermine that trust.

If more parents took the time to step back, evaluate their playground stance, and found ways that both they and their children can enjoy the experience, would we see many happier, healthier, and responsible children… and...

When should parents transfer responsibility to their children?

Whatever I teach, I teach storytelling.

Split Rock Lighthouse keeper Lee Radzak is leaving the job after 36 years. What made him stay so long?

Women are constantly starring as victims of the male patriarchy, of inequality, of sexual/physical/emotional/abuse.

What’s the secret of a happy and enduring marriage? According to a team from the Yale School of Public Health, it could be the genes of husband and wife.

In common parlance, a “cat person” is not simply someone who likes cats; it is a lonely human being who has either refused or is unable to achieve the risks and benefits of human intimacy.

Of course, it’s great to have a tidy house. No one denies that. But the alleged benefits of the KonMari method are absurdly overblown.

After being arrested and charged with practicing midwifery without a license last fall, a midwife in upstate New York is wondering whether or not she will go to jail for the work she has done for decades.

Even though the parameters for euthanasia in the Netherlands are very wide, one member of Parliament wants to allow any one 75 years or older to be able to request euthanasia for any reason whatsoever.  

It’s unfortunate, of course, that we need projects and play clubs to grant our children a taste of the freedom and fun we enjoyed as kids.

When you or someone close to you is facing the worst kind of tragedy, some kind of death (because every bad thing is some kind of death), you want to help. But you think: “There’s nothing I...

Every parent has been there, and it’s every parent’s worst nightmare.

Assuming the physically stronger party is always more likely to be guilty is absurd.

If Canada’s program is any indication, the government’s definition of “high-quality” child care may, in fact, be harming children.

It is no longer cool to be young, single and live in Manhattan.

Unless Elizabeth Warren is nostalgic for the era of the Great Depression, she should recognize that increasing the minimum wage to a family wage would cause long-term harm to American families.

They’ll probably start out watching clips from innocuous shows like “Peppa Pig” or “Paw Patrol,” but it’s all too easy for them to end up in much darker territory.

Children have to be taught what no means. But how?

It’s time to move away from outdated stereotypes of adolescents as only selfish and dangerous risk-takers and to consider how they are ripe for learning about contributing to others and their communities.

Talent is made, not born.

Peterson and McKay agree that most young men have not heard positive encouragement.

Everyone seems to agree that opposites attract. But is it true?

Ladies, we are being manipulated.

It appears that the genre of young-man-in-Mom’s-basement is no longer looked down upon but is in fact extolled as a viable career choice.

Modern loneliness is a complex problem, and the solutions will also vary.

On a recent trip to the zoo with my kids, I wondered, are there any unmediated experiences left?

Subjecting all homeschooling families to regulation and oversight because of fears of a few is a blatant example of state intrusion.

Media reports are exposing the industry’s empty promises.

Earlier this week researchers from Essex University made what might be considered a rather obvious announcement: working mothers are stressed.

We are losing the true value of mature masculinity, and suffering the consequences.

The result of our relativistic society?

Probably a majority of people would answer “yes” to that question. But how does that work in practice?

Fear not, this storm will pass.

Is Tucker Carlson right to argue that the free market can be destructive to the family?

Parents have a natural right and responsibility to raise and educate their children, not the state.

Even the measurement of gender bias is subject to gender bias.

Why don’t our politicians and others begin a campaign to "revalorize fathers and...

Homer writes about honor, war, politics and love.  His portrait of the marriages of Hector and Andromache as well as  Odysseus and Penelope provides good advice for successful relationships. 

Apple’s visionary motto of “Think Different” challenges the status quo, while Microsoft’s “Empowering Us All” may just capture the next incremental change on a well-trodden path.

There are a couple factors at play in the rise of childhood disrespect.

Can a lack of cooking knowledge and skills hinder development in other areas?

Television writer Andrew Davies has complained that "it is now 'compulsory' to have a leading lady capable of fending for herself."

The bill also permits parents to choose “X” on their newborn babies’ birth certificates.

Have we gone overboard on the entitlement-attitude toward chores?

Yet if we step back, we can think of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” as merely a milestone in the long process that brought the culture to where it is today.