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In 1941, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II, there were 2,515,427 babies born in this country. Of those babies, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 95,700 -- or 3.8% -- were born to unmarried mothers. The traditional family led by a mother and father was a foundational fact of American culture. In 1945, the percentage of babies born to unmarried mothers rose to 4.3%. But, by 1946, the first full year after the war, it dropped back down to 3.8%. The traditional family survived. Then in the 1950s, the...

On Jan. 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide with its ruling in Roe v. Wade. As we look back 49 years later, we mourn the more than 62 million babies in America whose lives since then have been extinguished while they were yet in their mothers’ wombs. Even as we grieve, however, we pro-lifers can also hope. The Supreme Court could be on the verge of overturning that infamous decision that even many abortion proponents concede to be a poor example of jurisprudence. Speaking last year to a group of fellow pro-lifers, I encouraged the crowd to...

There have been few things more glorious to witness in recent weeks than the impressive array of courageous and relentless mothers around the country lambasting school boards for their support of vile critical race theory.These moms of different socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds are confronting and boldly holding to account school board members, administrators, and teachers who are indoctrinating innocent children with a destructive ideology.They understand perhaps better than anyone that Marxist-infused curricula intended to sow division and resentment have no place in a free and civilized society, and is endangering their children’s cognitive, psychological, and emotional well-being. It...

I never celebrated Father’s Day growing up. My father left my mother after three years of marriage when I was 15 months old. With the debilitating legal impediments of Jim Crow still on the books in Charlotte, N.C., my father left Mom with two kids, one on the way, no skills, and no support. He was now free. I was fatherless. That was April 1960, four years before LBJ declared his “unconditional war on poverty.” My father choosing to abandon his family was a seismic event that disrupted the trajectory of our lives for good. Strangely, 1960 was also seismic...

The one thing you don’t want to do is mess with a mother and her children. There’s something that happens inside a woman when she senses that her children are in danger. It’s hard to explain how this type of protective nature works, but it’s very primal, instinctual, and powerful. And that’s precisely what’s happening right now to scores of mothers across the country, as they watch in horror as their children’s educations are poisoned by an anti-American, anti-white, communist curriculum called “Critical Race Theory.” Critical Race Theory is a theoretical framework that is rooted in Marxism. It imagines individuals...

MY MOTHER’S RULES FOR REARING A GODLY FAMILY “Seek ye first the kingdom of God. and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you” (Matthew 6:33). After an automobile accident in 1996, my mother went to be with the Lord. She had been scheduled to speak at a ladies' meeting the Monday following her death. When my brother found her handwritten message on the dining room table, he typed it up and sent it to all his brothers. This final written legacy left by my mother is one of my greatest treasures. Here is her list of...

Any mother who has had to bury her child — one of the most devastating and enduring tragedies of motherhood — can take heart on Mother’s Day. You are not alone. The mother who was the very inspiration for the holiday, Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis, lost seven of her 11 children during the mid-1800s in rural Virginia. The dedication to honoring and supporting mothers displayed by Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis inspired her daughter Anna Jarvis, who never married or had children, to lobby for a holiday to honor “the best mother who ever lived — your mother.” After a few...

Becoming a parent was the most profound, all-encompassing event in my life. While I loved and still love my husband, Jimmy, the birth of a child ignited inside me a new type of overwhelming love: motherly love. Though I knew that parts of both of us had combined to create a new human being, I also knew that she was a new life, totally independent of us, who was created through a miracle by God. Our first child, Maggie, is now an adult, but I still vividly remember the day she was born. A rather uneventful labor changed course during...

Democrats’ push for gun control in the House and Senate is a reminder that Jen Psaki used Twitter in 2020 to assert that gun registration is a way to get “mothers out to the polls.”

CNN’s senior White House correspondent John Harwood said Friday on “Newsroom” that Republicans “would go smack their moms in the face” if President Donald Trump told them to. Anchor Kate Bolduan said, “Now President Trump’s continued efforts to overturn the results of the election is getting the full support from a clear majority of Republicans in the House. We’re going to control through this list for you, but it’s 106 House Republicans now backing a lawsuit that originated from Texas, the Texas attorney general that wants the Supreme Court to throw out the votes of millions of Americans in four...

Archbishop Viganò: Moms must protect children from the state  Viganò reminded mothers that parents have an “inalienable right” and duty to educate their children. ITALY, August 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Former papal nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has written a letter to mothers in Italy, warning them that they must protect their children from corruption by the state.  In his impassioned address, written on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the archbishop endorsed an upcoming parents’ protest in September against the security measures and secular values being imposed on Italian schools.   Viganò reminded mothers that parents...

What Mothers Need To Make Us Strong When families are strong, the nation is strong. What makes families strong is love and that love is centred on the mother. Australia’s most conservative recent Prime Minister was a staunch opponent of unnecessary taxes. But he had his own proposal to tax big business to protect and nurture the family. He wanted every mother on incomes up to $AUD150,000 (much closer to $100,000 in US dollars on typical exchange rates) to be able to have 6 months fully paid leave to be with a new baby. The $AUD150,000 cap was reduced to...

I told my online friend "Shelly" of San Diego that I thought lesbians had a lot to do with making feminism as bad as it has become. I explained that I believe that since lesbians dont spend time caring for kids as mothers do, lesbian priorities get more political energy and consequently have done huge damage to mothers and men through 3rd Wave Feminsm. Shelly disagreed. She said most non heterosexuals just want to live their own lives. This made me stop and think and that lead me to remembering how much I love Brian Wilson and the glorious harmonies...

Carrying the weight of a parent’s unhappiness is a heavy burden for a child. It makes sense that children prone to self-blame would develop anxiety from their mother's depression. We’ve all heard the saying, “If mom’s unhappy, everyone’s unhappy.” I think it’s a little unfair to moms, but it’s meant as a playful way of saying what most of us have experienced at some point: Moms set the mood for the family. If mom is unhappy, the whole family feels it. Mothers wield tremendous influence in the home, and for most families this isn’t a problem.Moms can have ups and...

Feminism attacks the very foundation of society because it attacks family life. This post points to my personal analysis of the catastrophic effects and modus operandi of this mental disease: https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/2020/03/23/i-will-tell-my-story-2/ Sane people will fight it. My questions for FReeepers today are: Do you agree with what I am saying? What are your personal stories relating to misandrist, misogynist feminist evil? How do we fight back effectively?

Feminism is the enemy of Mothers. By demonising men and heterosexuality, feminism attacks the essential need of mothers to have men who can participate freely in family life. Who agrees? Feminism has liberated women to the workplace but then does not support parental leave for mothers. It was only a conservative Prime Minister in Tony Abbott who seriously addressed good parental leave for mothers in Australia. What is President Trump’s record like on this issue?

Paid child care is expensive and eats up much of the income from lower-paid employment, which is all many mothers can get. What I propose is a system where two mothers can join up and provide mutual child care. Mom2 would work the days Mom1 doesn't. They might live in the same dwelling or just be neighbors. They would generally want to find a line of work that is seven days a week so they can each get close to 40 hours of work in each week. Grocery store work, retail store shelving work and restaurant work are some suitable...

Daniel Davis: I’m joined now in the studio by Dr. Warren Farrell. He is co-author of the book “The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It.” The liberal Left continue to push their radical agenda against American values. The good news is there is a solution. Find out more >> Dr. Farrell, thanks for being here. Warren Farrell: I’m looking forward to talking with you. Davis: We’re recording this interview after a shooting in California, and it’s the kind of shooting that’s caused a lot of people to wonder. What is wrong with...

In a recent poll for “Axios on HBO,” 55% of American women say they would prefer to live in a socialist country over a capitalist country. This week on “Problematic Women,” we discuss why women are embracing socialism and what can be done to stop this trend. Also, we break down why freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says members of Congress, despite already making $174,000 a year, deserve a pay raise. We crown Yale University graduate and future Justice Brett Kavanaugh law clerk Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld Problematic Woman of the Week. And we discuss these topics: — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had...

Manbij wasn’t necessarily safe so much as it was stable. Kurdish forces backed by the American military successfully drove out the Islamic State in 2016, with a relative calm following. The small northern city of approximately 300,000 would go on to be cited as the model for what Syria could look like post-ISIS, despite being at the crossroads of international tensions between Syria, Turkey, Russia, and the United States. Although the radical Islamic militants no longer held the city, there was still much work to be done in order to kill or capture the remaining cells that threatened the city...