Demographics

Researchers Find Abortion is the Leading Cause of Death, Surpassing Heart Disease and Cancer

08/05/2018 at 1:46 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Paul Stark, Aug 2, 2018 Abortion ends the life of a human organism—an individual member of the species Homo sapiens. Yet abortions are not classified as deaths in U.S. vital statistics. What would those statistics look like if this omission were corrected? A team of researchers from the... read more

BreakPoint: Children Aren’t Optional

07/23/2018 at 3:53 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
Self-Sacrifice vs. Self-Fulfillment by: John Stonestreet &  Roberto Rivera, July 19, 2018 Americans are having fewer and fewer babies, and the New York Times wants to know why. We’ve talked quite a bit on BreakPoint over the past few months about the declining fertility rate in the... read more

Motherhood a Valued Vocation, Not an Old-Fashioned Notion

07/15/2018 at 2:41 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Nancy Thorner & Bonnie O'Neil - July 13, 2018 There has been an unprecedented number of women that have joined America's work force in the last few decades. A 2016 survey indicated a whopping 70 percent of women with children under the age of 18 are currently in the workforce. Compare that... read more

Middle children going extinct because Millennials don’t want three children

07/14/2018 at 11:28 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Ashley May, USA TODAY, July 13, 2018 Another reason to forget middle children: Americans have stopped having them. Ahead of National Middle Child Day (it’s Aug. 12, if you forgot), women's lifestyle magazine The Cut points out that middle children could go extinct. The Sue Hecks and... read more

Open Borders Is Not a Moral Immigration Policy

07/13/2018 at 5:42 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Jonathan B. Coe, July 11, 2018 “Where there is no guidance, a people falls; but in an abundance of counselors there is safety” (Prov. 11:14). Such ancient Hebrew wisdom is relevant as we look at major public policies through different prisms (empirical, pragmatic, moral, anecdotal,... read more

Illinois taxpayer-funded abortions increase at least 274 percent in first six months of 2018

07/11/2018 at 9:32 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Greg Bishop | Illinois News Network, July 9, 2018 Illinois taxpayers paid for nearly four times more abortions in the first six months of 2018 than the year before and one state lawmakers expects the total number to eventually be much larger. Records of the number of abortion... read more

Recent Polls Overstate Public Support for Roe v. Wade

07/11/2018 at 9:18 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Michael J. New, July 9, 2018 Justice Kennedy’s announcement that he is retiring from the U.S. Supreme Court has dramatically raised salience of sanctity-of-life issues. Supporters of legal abortion and their allies in the mainstream media are working tirelessly to generate opposition to a... read more

Experts: Too many African babies, must resort to population control

07/02/2018 at 3:03 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Taylor Lewis June 28, 2018 (American Thinker) – Africa's burgeoning birth rate is expected to touch off more migration to its northern continental neighbor, as globalization and rising global temperatures both push desperate people to a place less ravished by crime and intolerable clime.... read more

Putin: The State Is Committed to Supporting and Encouraging Large Families

06/28/2018 at 6:02 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
(Free West Media), June 27, 2017 Support for the family unit, motherhood, and childhood has been and remains one of the unconditional priorities of his country, the Russian President believes. Russian parents who have large families “have chosen for themselves a happy, grateful, but very... read more

If You Think America Supports Abortion, Think Again. Polling Data Shows Otherwise

06/27/2018 at 5:29 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Michael New, Ph.D.   Jun 26, 2018 Earlier this month, Gallup released a series of polls dealing with the issue of abortion. Nearly every year since the mid-1990s, Gallup has asked Americans whether they identify as either “pro-life” or “pro-choice.” In addition, beginning in 2001,... read more

This Father’s Day, More Than a Quarter of Kids Have Absentee Fathers

06/18/2018 at 10:40 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Lyman Stone & W. Bradford Wilcox, June 16, 2018 We need to tackle both rising incarceration and declining marriage. The first American celebration of Father’s Day commemorated a mining disaster that left over 1,000 children fatherless. At the time, in the early 1900s, it was very... read more

Social elites gather to discuss rise of ‘populism’

06/14/2018 at 8:05 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Hungary sees abortion numbers plunge with rise of pro-family policies

06/03/2018 at 3:45 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Mexifornia and the Prophetic Voice of Victor Davis Hanson

06/01/2018 at 9:35 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Demographics Are Destiny

05/29/2018 at 9:41 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

Acceptance Of Homosexuality Grows, Even Among ‘Conservatives’

05/29/2018 at 9:18 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

Too Few Women

05/22/2018 at 9:22 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Too Few Women

05/19/2018 at 11:59 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

Same-Sex Parenting: The Child Maltreatment No One Mentions

05/06/2018 at 4:07 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Bishop Tobin defends right to weigh in on politics

04/20/2018 at 9:04 AM By Mary Anne Hackett