Posted on March 20th, 2012 by Love and Fidelity Network
Share On March 3, the Love and Fidelity Network cosponsored a day-long conference with the Muslim Life Program and AltMuslimah.com called “Courtship, Marriage, and Divorce: The American Muslim Happily Ever After.” This event brought together a diverse group of thinkers ranging from community activists and academics to religious leaders and professionals to discuss the common [...]
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Posted on March 8th, 2012 by Love and Fidelity Network
ShareSpecial thanks to Charles Capps for providing us with his award-winning essay on the conjugal theory of sexual morality, as laid out by the New Natural Law Theory. Following up on yesterday’s post, we conclude the essay with part II for you now. Enjoy. IV. The Conjugal Act We will now proceed to develop a [...]
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Posted on March 6th, 2012 by Love and Fidelity Network
ShareI. Introduction1 Since the cultural upheaval of the 1960s, opposing views of sexual morality have created deep rifts in the fabric of Western society. Today, with the remarkable acceleration of the movement to assimilate homosexual partnerships into the definition of civil marriage, these rifts have exploded to the forefront of the public sphere. Now more [...]
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Posted on February 28th, 2012 by Love and Fidelity Network
As a society, we are confused. Motherhood is detested. Motherhood is seen as an independent woman being stripped of her individuality and forced to breed, barefoot and pregnant trapped in a kitchen. How wrong is that image! Motherhood happens when an independent woman lovingly serves her fellow beings by raising the generations of people who will raise the banner of goodness and liberty in our nation.
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Posted on February 12th, 2012 by Love and Fidelity Network
Share Source: “Regardless of population subgroup (age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, education, income, or nativity) or health indicator (fair or poor health, limitations in activities, low back pain, headaches, serious psychological distress, smoking, or leisure-time physical inactivity), married adults were generally found to be healthier than adults in other marital status categories. Marital status differences [...]
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Posted on February 11th, 2012 by Love and Fidelity Network
Share Sources: “Using the March 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS), we estimated standard human capital regressions, expanded to include race, Hispanic origin, and presence of children. Among men, ages 25-49, the coefficient on being married implied a 34 percent earnings advantage over the never-married, a 25 percent advantage over separated men, and a 21 percent [...]
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Posted on February 10th, 2012 by Love and Fidelity Network
Share Direct source: “Model 3 includes a dichotomous variable measuring premarital sex and indicates that women who had their first sexual encounter prior to first marriage are about 34% more likely to experience marital dissolution at each point in their marriages (and for each year that they delay sex, the risk of marital disruption is [...]
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Posted on February 8th, 2012 by Love and Fidelity Network
ShareToday, the Love and Fidelity Network is pleased to introduce an intercollegiate advertising campaign with the prominent tagline “My sexual choices now are making a difference.” This campaign–presented by 19 colleges and universities (including five Ivy Leagues) through 9,000 posters–sends the message that college students’ current sexual choices can increase their confidence in achieving other [...]
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Posted on August 16th, 2011 by Cassy Hough
An increasing number of young Americans who have completed high school but not college are having children in fragile cohabiting relationships instead of within marriage. Even those who are married face a high divorce rate, being more than twice as likely to divorce in the first ten years of marriage as their college-educated peers. As Wilcox and Cherlin state in their paper, “The nation’s retreat from marriage, which started in low-income communities in the 1960s and 1970s, has now moved into Middle America”.
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Posted on July 26th, 2011 by Love and Fidelity Network
Share After one year as president of the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., John Garvey took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to announce a change in his university’s policy for housing students on campus: a return to all-male and all-female residence halls, and the gradual elimination of mixed-sex buildings. According [...]
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