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My wife and I recently celebrated our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Planning how we would mark the occasion was left to my discretion. Maybe I should have taken her on a vacation — a second honeymoon of sorts. Instead, I planned a gathering of a few dozen friends at our house. Perhaps I’m cheap, but one of the key reasons I did so is that I think of our marriage as a public thing, even if few people actually know the inner workings of our marital life. Our marriage is an entity with ram...

A revolution in marriage and divorce took place in the wake of the 1960s, causing untold cultural destruction. It’s become increasingly clear that the integrity of Western civilization depends upon monogamous marriage.

Depending on whom you ask, the Arkansas state legislature is filled with either devils, dupes, or diligent lawmakers who did their duty to protect minors despite enormous pressure to capitulate. After all, they reversed their own Republican governor’s veto of a bill that would prohibit persons under age eighteen from receiving certain surgeries and hormone treatments for diagnosed gender dysphoria. Last Tuesday, the Arkansas House of Representatives voted 72-25 to overturn Governor Asa Hutchi...

Aug 3rd, 2020 4 min read COMMENTARY BY Former Senior Research Fellow Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D., researched and wrote about marriage, bioethics, religious liberty and political philosophy. Now the world’s largest relevant dataset reveals hormones and surgeries don’t bring wholeness and happiness. Tara Moore/Getty Images Key Takeaways The largest dataset on sex-reassignment procedures—both hormonal and surgical—reveals that such procedures do...

Children with same-sex parents get higher scores on standardised tests than children with different-sex parents. This is the key finding from our study published today in the journal Demography. We also found children with same-sex parents to be slightly more likely to graduate from high school, and much more likely to enrol in university than children with different-sex parents. Our results challenge common arguments against same-sex parenting, and lend support to other scholarly perspectives ...

In the conservative world, hook-up culture is often understood primarily as a symptom of sexual excess. Because young people do not place a high value on sex, they will have as much of it as they can with as many partners as possible. In this narrative, every young person is Samantha from Sex in the City, pursuing intercourse as a leisure activity. The intrinsic connection between sex and love has been severed for my students. Sex is just as often the opening salvo, facilitated by dating apps ...

The future of Christian marriage JavaScript in your web browser. Please Go Engaging views and analysis from outside contributors on the issues affecting society and faith today. CP VOICES do not necessarily reflect the views of The Christian Post. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author(s). CP Current Page: Voices | The future of Christian marriage The future of Christian marriage (Photo: Unsplash/Scott Webb) Ask any random group of ten elderly couples about their marriage, a...

 Can you say something about what having a background in both disciplines gives you over another scholar who addresses these issues only from the perspective of theology or only from the perspective of sociology? Bullivant: Well, obviously, I like to think that you’re right. Though I can’t claim that ending up as a theologian-sociologist is the culmination of some grand plan. First of all, I fell into theology. I went to university as an 18-year-old as an atheist studying archaeology, and ...

Ready for commitment, there are still plenty of women out there ready to have no strings attached hook-ups. one finding from the new book, "premarital sex in america: how young americans meet, mate and think about marrying," one of the authors of that book from the university of texas at austin is joining us live. mark, good to see you. >> good to see you, too, randi. >> interesting topic. in doing this research, what surprised you most about unmarried young adults? >> right. the thing that surp...

Sexual, meaning they added sex to the relationship, within a month of the formation of that relationship. and a majority of those, it happened within two weeks. and plenty of the people we talked to, it happened even before the relationship started. which is not a good key to commitment in a relationship. now, plenty of people dont want that commitment just yet. but when you do eventually want commitment, what you have done up to that point matters. one of the things we talk about is theres no c...