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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 ramifications and consequences that echo outside our home. The same is true in reverse: what happens in...

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 Hutchinson’s veto, while the Senate did so by a vote of 25-8. While these margins are hardly narrow, the...

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 not bring the promised mental health benefits. People who experience a gender identity conflict sho...

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 that emphasise the benefits of being raised by a same-sex couple. Same-sex parenting remains controv...