by jstewardfree | Apr 1, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Family, Grey Matter
By L.S. Dugdale | (Source) A National Hospice Foundation survey some years ago found that Americans are more inclined to discuss safe sex and drugs with their children than they are to talk with their terminally ill parents about preparing for death. Although this...
by jstewardfree | Mar 11, 2020 | Economics and Enterprise, Family, Grey Matter
By Rep. Ted Budd| (Source) Why are some millennials more financially secure than others? The answer has to do with individual life choices. Americans who graduate high school, start working, get married, and have children—in that order—are significantly less...
by jstewardfree | Feb 12, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Family, Grey Matter
By Dennis Prager | (Source) I began part one of “Why Are So Many Young People Unhappy?” with data showing the apparently unprecedentedly high rate of unhappiness among young people in America (and elsewhere, but I am focusing on America). The rates of suicide,...
by jstewardfree | Feb 5, 2020 | Contemporary Culture, Family, Grey Matter
By Jean Twenge | (Source) We’re in the middle of a teen mental health crisis – and girls are at its epicenter. Since 2010, depression, self-harm and suicide rates have increased among teen boys. But rates of major depression among teen girls in the U.S. increased...
by jstewardfree | Nov 20, 2019 | Family, Grey Matter
By Melissa Moschella | (Source) Given the risks of assisted reproductive technologies and gene-editing technologies for both individuals and society as a whole, a hands-off, libertarian approach to these issues is ethically irresponsible. Because these technologies...
by jstewardfree | Oct 16, 2019 | Family, Grey Matter
By Patrick Lee | (Source) In Human Embryos, Human Beings, A Scientific and Philosophical Approach philosopher Samuel Condic and Neurobiologist Maureen Condic advance a careful and detailed case for the proposition that a human being comes to be at fertilization,...
