Submitted by jbudziszewski on Wed, 04/20/2016 - 00:00

A new study from the National Center for Health Statistics, publicized by the Institute for Family Studies, suggests that young American adults may be turning to cohabitation largely because so many of them have painful memories of their parents’ divorce.

Submitted by jbudziszewski on Sun, 04/17/2016 - 00:00

Can everything we need to say about how to live be translated into rights talk?  Possibly.  But.

Consider an easy case.  I can translate the statement that parents have a duty to care for their children into the idea that children have a right to their parents’ care.  Not bad.

Submitted by jbudziszewski on Sat, 04/16/2016 - 00:00

The paradox of the sexual revolution is that those who preach it belong mostly to the upper stratum, but those who suffer from it belong mostly to the lower.  Will this difference persist?  I don't think it can.

Submitted by jbudziszewski on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 00:00

People sometimes tell me that they believe there may be some natural laws – okay, it’s wrong to murder -- but that there are no natural laws about sexuality.  They simply refuse to consider that sex might be ordered to procreation.

Submitted by jbudziszewski on Thu, 04/14/2016 - 00:00

Has the population of the hookup world suddenly become more numerous than before the HHS mandate and before Obergefell?

No, but its inhabitants are more openly angry about rational criticism, and the minority are less willing to speak up.