family

The Fertility Trap

A review of John Ibbitson and Darrell Bricker's Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline.
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12 Aug 2019

A World Without Mothers

by Ben Sixsmith and Paul Rowan Brian

A new book mounts a radical attack on the biological family. Continue Reading »

11 Jul 2019

Judaism’s Pro-Natalist Heritage

by Ari Lamm

It is time for Jews to lead the way in encouraging the growth and flourishing of families. Continue Reading »

13 Jun 2019

My Father Left Me Ireland: An American Son’s Search For Home by michael brendan dougherty sentinel, 223 pages, $24 Irish artists face a problem unknown to artists in, let us say, uninterrupted nations. It is possible for things, places, people to be “too Irish”—the gist of a note I . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2019

Love, and Be Silent

by Julia Yost

Regretting Motherhood: A Study by orna donath north atlantic, 272 pages, $15.95 In March, a self-help author tweeted that whereas he once intended to have many children, now, after putting in a few years on his first, he had decided that one was enough, and more than enough, and if he had it . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2019

I’ll Have Consequences

by Gilbert Meilaender

Not too many years ago, I knew a little boy who was prone to temper tantrums that included yelling, kicking, and hitting. He wasn’t entirely to blame for this, having had a rough start in life. Nevertheless, that sort of behavior couldn’t just be excused, and, of course, if uncorrected it would . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2018

Common Good Conservatism

by R. R. Reno

Countless commentators have observed that the public square is polarized. Political speech has become barbed. The once sober mainstream media are often shrill. It’s a sure sign of the times that people on both left and right feel under assault. Religious Americans worry that, if given a chance, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2018

Reclaiming the Household

by John Cuddeback

The decline of the family has roots in the demise of the household. While the two realities are intimately connected, they are not identical. The household is a social form, a domestic community; the family, too, is a social unit, but it shades into the purely biological fact of consanguinity. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2018