Abstinence Makes the Mind Work Harder
(Source: Robert Rector and Kirk A. Johnson, “Teenage Sexual Abstinence and Academic Achievement, The Heritage Foundation,” ) October 27, 2005 Many health educators dismiss the idea of teaching sexual abstinence until marriage, thinking it leaves teens ignorant and ill prepared to make transitions to adulthood. However, a new study by the Heritage Foundation in Washington, [...]
Parent Abuse on the Rise: A Historical Review
American Association of Behavioural Social Science Online Journal 2004 21/01/2005 In comparison to child and spouse abuse, the issue of parents being abused by their adolescent children has received very little attention by the mental health profession even though its prevalence is comparable. Parent abuse has been identified and addressed to some extent over the [...]
Wrong to smack but right to kill?
UK Telegraph Opinion - Ross Clark 07/11/2004 A ban on smacking, said David Hinchcliffe, the Labour MP who led the calls for such a ban in last week’s Commons’ debate, “would criminalise hitting children to exactly the same extent as hitting adults. That is equality and children, who are far more fragile and vulnerable than us, deserve [...]
Sandra Paterson: My daughter missing dad
NZ Herald Jul 03, 2004 (and still applies today) My daughter was about 2 1/2 when she looked up halfway through her porridge one day and asked, “Why don’t I have a daddy at home, like Steven does?” Steven is the boy next door, and I am a single parent. …Just a mum or just [...]
Video Game Violence and Public Policy
David Walsh, Ph.D. National Institute on Media and the Family 2001 Concern about violent video and computer games is based on the assumption that they contribute to aggression and violence among young players. That conclusion was originally based on the extensive body of research about the effects of television violence on children’s behavior. Prominent organizations [...]
How to control adults by means of ‘children’s rights’.
By Lynette Burrows This article is published by The Human Life Foundation, Inc. New York, in the HUMAN LIFE REVIEW, Vol. XXV, No. 2, Spring 1999, pages 65 – 73. Lynette Burrows is a well-known English educator and journalist. Her latest book, The Fight for the Family, was published in 1998, revised and reprinted in [...]
The Real Root Causes of Violent Crime: The Breakdown of Marriage, Family, and Community
by Patrick F. Fagan – The Heritage Foundation March 17, 1995 Full Article – http://www.heritage.org/Research/Crime/BG1026.cfm Overview • Over the past thirty years, the rise in violent crime parallels the rise in families abandoned by fathers. • State-by-state analysis by Heritage scholars indicates that a 10 percent increase in the percentage of children living in single-parent homes leads [...]
