Marriage & Family
Keep an eye out for my piece in the Providence Journal today, “Lynch: Rhode Island’s Activist General?,” which addresses Attorney General Patrick Lynch’s response to an op-ed by Joseph Cavanagh and Lincoln Oliphant, objecting to Lynch’s finding that Rhode Island would recognize same-sex marriages from Massachusetts. The heart of the matter is that those pushing…
I just wanted to take a moment to thank Governor Carcieri for this: Gov. Don Carcieri has vetoed a bill requiring health insurers to cover infertility treatments for unmarried people, saying they shouldn’t be forced to subsidize out-of-wedlock births. The Republican governor, who opposes same-sex marriage and civil unions, warned that eliminating the marriage restriction…
MRH recites a productive argument 14 comments into my previous post (emphasis his): I understand that no one wants to be called a bigot, but it’s really dancing right on the edge of offensive when a white guy claims that being accused of bigotry is like a black man being called a “nigger” by a…
Michael Pakaluk has a suggestion as to the effects on upstanding citizens when legal elites begin dictating their social views: Suppose you are a decent family man, not unlike David Parker in Arlington, working hard at a job and trying to raise a family. You take it for granted, as something unquestioned, that only a…
Expanding on some of the ideas previously discussed in The Cultural Consequences of Offering Endless Quantities of Meaningless Praise, the latest piece (available for a fee) from Jeffrey Zaslow of the Wall Street Journal is entitled Blame It on Mr. Rogers: Why Young Adults Feel So Entitled: …Fred Rogers, the late TV icon, told several…
What better preparation for the arbitrary holiday celebrating fathers could there be than to goad readers into explaining why fathers don’t matter? Or, more specifically, why children don’t need mothers and fathers. The Wall Street Journal offers the opportunity: A growing body of research offers new insight. Fathers can have a distinct impact on children…
AP: Massachusetts lawmakers voted Thursday to block a proposed constitutional amendment that would have let voters decide whether to ban gay marriage in the state. The narrow vote was a victory for gay marriage advocates and a devastating blow to efforts to reverse a historic 2003 court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. MORE: Via the Boston…
Continuing the conversation begun in an earlier post, Rediscovering Traditional Unstructured Play for Children, here are excerpts from a related Wall Street Journal article (subscription required) entitled Helping Overbooked Kids Cut Back: …Written about and discussed for decades, the problem of overscheduled children still looms large. Many parents keep children busy believing that stimulating activities…
Matt from Unlikely Words makes an excellent point in response to my most recent post on same-sex marriage, excellent because it advances a conversation that tends toward talking past one another: The statistics don’t enter into it. Even accepting the claim (which I don’t doubt) that many or even most married couples have children isn’t…
Before the paragraph devolves into raving, commenter Greg asks a valid question worthy of an answer: How can we be for a small, non-intrusive government when we tell people that we won’t acknowledge their relationships because they don’t insert Tab A into Slot B like the rest of us do? And what does it matter…