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You're Teaching My Child What? The Truth About Sex Education
By Miriam Grossman, The Heritage FoundationHeritage Lecture, 08/10/2010
The principles of sexual health education are not based on the hard sciences. Sex education is animated by a specific vision of how society must change, and because of this, sex ed curricula omit critical biological truths and endorse high-risk behaviors. The priority for SIECUS, Planned Parenthood, and Advocates for Youth is not the health and well-being of young people. These federally funded organizations are fighting “repression” and “intolerance,” not herpes or syphilis. But when sexual freedom reigns, sexual health suffers. Our children are being taught that you can play with fire, and we are obligated to inform them of the risks they face and to teach them biological truths, even when they are politically incorrect.
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Religion and Morality in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate
By Thomas Messner, The Heritage FoundationBackgrounder, 07/21/2010
Three understandings should form the basis of any discussion about the place of religion and morality in the same-sex marriage debate. First, though some people who defend marriage are personally religious or have religious motivations, support for marriage as the union of husband and wife does not require belief in the religious teachings of any particular faith. Second, many people, including some professional gay-rights activists, enthusiastically mix religion with law and politics in support of same-sex marriage. Third, the question of how marriage should be defined in law raises inescapable moral considerations that should be confronted directly.
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Married Fathers: America’s Greatest Weapon Against Child Poverty
By Robert Rector, The Heritage FoundationWebMemo, 06/16/2010
To reduce poverty in America, policymakers should enact policies that encourage people to form and maintain healthy marriage and delay childbearing until they are married and economically stable. Marriage is highly beneficial to children, adults, and society. It needs to be encouraged and strengthened, not ignored and undermined.
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The Rise of the Caring Industry
By Ronald W. Dworkin, Hoover InstitutionPolicy Review, 06/03/2010
We’ve experienced a more than 100-fold increase in the number of professional caregivers over the last 60 years, although the general population has only doubled. What accounts for this great change? True, professional caregivers aggressively promote themselves, but that fails to explain why their services are in such high demand. The answer lies in the people themselves—in the general culture. The American people want professional caregivers. And yet the conventional cultural explanation for their desire is equally flawed. Many conservatives view psychotherapy with suspicion; they think it encourages self-absorption, which leads to more emotional trouble that can only be treated with more therapy. Yet this narrative is only half true.
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The Mapping America Project: Tracking the Importance of Family and Faith
By Alysse ElHage, North Carolina Family Policy CouncilSpotlight, 05/04/2010
In an effort to highlight the important results of this ongoing research, Family North Carolina will feature a regular segment dedicated to the Mapping America Project (MAP) in every issue. In this issue, we focus on the latest MAP reports devoted to the positive effects on adults of growing up in an intact family that worshipped regularly, as well as the positive effects on adults of being married and attending religious services regularly. The following findings are excerpted from reports compiled by researchers at the Mapping America Project, except where otherwise noted.
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The Failure of Philanthropic Greed and the Case for Investing in Family Policy
By Bryce J. Christensen, William C. Duncan, Sutherland InstitutePolicy Report, 03/18/2010
It is time for conservatives who take a broader view to recognize the value of an investment in family policy. They must realize that the future of a free and tolerable, a just and civilized society will depend ultimately on that investment. For whatever else is gained in terms of a favorable business climate will be ultimately lost if not sustained by a substratum of strong, vibrant families who instill in their children the virtues necessary to liberty. The Left may continue to take Deep Throat as the best and only guide to political strategy. Conservatives must not be similarly guilty of neglecting the permanent things by allowing the family foundation to erode.
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Evidence on the Effectiveness of Abstinence Education: An Update
By Christine C. Kim, Robert Rector, The Heritage FoundationBackgrounder, 02/23/2010
Teen sexual activity is costly, not just for teens, but also for society. Teens who engage in sexual activity risk a host of negative outcomes including STD infection, emotional and psychological harm, and out-of-wedlock childbearing. Genuine abstinence education is therefore crucial to the physical and psycho-emotional well-being of the nation’s youth. In addition to teaching the benefits of abstaining from sexual activity until marriage, abstinence programs focus on developing character traits that prepare youths for future-oriented goals. When considering effective prevention program aimed at changing teen sexual behavior, lawmakers should consider all of the available empirical evidence and restore funding for abstinence education.
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Marriage, Parentage, and the Constitution of the Family
By Chuck Donovan, The Heritage FoundationWebMemo, 01/28/2010
Policymakers should adopt reforms to strengthen families and rebuild civil society as the engine of the greatest human goods.
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The New Federal Wedding Tax: How Obamacare Would Dramatically Penalize Marriage
By Robert Rector, The Heritage FoundationWebMemo, 01/20/2010
Under the Senate bill, married couples would be taxed to provide discriminatory benefits to couples who cohabit, divorce, or never marry.
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Conservatism and the Quest for Community
By William Schambra, American Enterprise InstituteBradley Lecture, 01/05/2010
Most conservatives will not have heard Freddie Garcia’s name. And yet in his life and ministry he embodied conservative social policy at its best. His work did not rely on—indeed, it repudiated—massive government expenditures for the purchase of costly professional expertise. Rather, in the best tradition of Alexis de Toqueville’s science of association—of decentralized, voluntary community-building—he worked to construct small, tightly-knit, nurturing faith communities for those whose addictions and incarcerations had long since driven them from the arms of family and friends.
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Who Is Saving Feminism?
By Cristina Goizueta and Rachel KopecAugust 27, 2010
Over the past 35 years, women’s happiness has “declined both absolutely and relative to men,” according to a well-publicized Wharton business school study called “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness.” The paradox, according to the authors, is that female happiness has declined while feminism has concurrently achieved great shifts of...
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“Diversity:” A Modern Tyrant?
By Peter WoodMay 01, 2004
Several months ago, my publisher told me that my book on diversity was about to be translated into Korean. I was baffled. Of what possible interest could a book on a cultural and political fad in the United States be to highly homogenous South Koreans? (I was, of course, assuming...
