The survey also found that family satisfaction varies somewhat by race and ethnicity. Nine-in-ten blacks (90%) in the lower class say they are satisfied with their family lives, compared with about eight-in-ten Hispanics (83%) and whites (79%). (link; and this paragraph was pointed out by the . . . . Continue Reading »
Two links today. First, “At Stadium Club, young, professional women party while others strip,” from my hometown daily: It’s Friday evening in D.C., and three women arrive at the Stadium Club, a converted warehouse in Northeast. It is flanked by rundown brick buildings and a gritty . . . . Continue Reading »
Hello! For many years I’ve edited the blog MarriageDebate, which started as a project of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy. Over the years the purpose of the blog shifted, to the point where I’m now bringing it over to First Things with the title “Kinship and . . . . Continue Reading »
An older man I know once remarked that in his experience, there wasnt much point in arguing that divorce was wrong. What hed come to believe was that”especially when the couple had children”divorce was simply impossible. These two people would continue to remain yoked to one anothers lives, their memories, griefs, resentments as intertwined as their laddering DNA… . Continue Reading »
Catholic and Feminist: The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist Movement by mary j. henold university of north carolina press, 304 pages, $32 Ihave never met a nun—there was a time when this would have been a truly bizarre statement from an American Catholic. Nuns were everywhere: . . . . Continue Reading »
Abortion was made for horror. In abortion, a mother is pitted against her child, the Madonna becomes Medea; and the child, usually a symbol of innocence, is experienced as an invading enemy. The distortions of the pregnant womans body are mirrored in the dismemberment of the fetus, and the . . . . Continue Reading »
The understanding has sunk in slowly that the 1950s, far from being a bland decade of picket-fence complacence, were a time of intense social and artistic ferment: In literature alone, you have Invisible Man , Waiting for Godot , A Good Man Is Hard to Find, and Goodbye, Columbus . (You . . . . Continue Reading »
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