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My friend and colleague, Glenn Stanton, is Director of Global Family Formation Studies here at Focus on the Family. With news of the world’s population topping seven billion people this past Monday, some commentators have been expressing concern, suggesting that the world is reaching its tipping point. In response, Glenn offered a succinct and insightful analysis of the situation. I am pleased to share it with you:
A fact: Christians don’t see people as accidents or problems.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: family, kids, news by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Perhaps you’ve heard about Felisha Archuleta of Denver. For the last few months she’s been trying to sign her 7-year-old son up to join the Girl Scouts.
Why?
“I consider Bobby to be born in the wrong body,” Ms. Archuleta told a Denver television station.
According to the story, Bobby acts and feels like a girl even though he’s a boy. Not surprisingly the application for admission was originally denied, citing the fact that, well, it’s called the Girl Scouts.
Topics: Current Events Tags: faith, family, kids, news by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
According to a news report, a lesbian couple in San Francisco have started giving their 11-year-old son hormone blockers in an attempt to delay the onset of puberty.
Why?
Because when the boy was 3 years old he told them he was a girl. He holds this belief to this day and the hormone blockers administered by his two mothers are intended to put his sexual development on hold until he can decide who he really is.
Topics: Current Events Tags: events, family, kids, news by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
I realize that not everyone loves baseball. In fact, I’m sure some of you don’t even care for it, preferring other sports – or no sport at all. But stick with me here, because with the start of the World Series tonight in St. Louis, I’m reminded that baseball is more than just a sport.
It’s even more than just a game.
My childhood is full of some tough memories. Memories of a broken home, broken promises and dreams that just didn’t come true.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: entertainment, family by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
It is a difficult sight to see, flames bursting from a crushed Indy racing car, tires flying through the air, vehicle upon vehicle slamming one into another.
To watch a crash in which a man dies is a horrific thing. It’s just not supposed to happen this way. Racing is safe, we’re told, even safer than driving our car through our neighborhood on the way to the mall. But yesterday in Las Vegas something went wrong, and terribly so.
Topics: Current Events Tags: events, family, news by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie made an interesting remark the other day. I wonder if you heard it? During a press conference announcing his decision to not seek the presidency in 2012 he said:
We got a FedEx over the weekend, at home, from a farmer in Nebraska, to my children. Asking my children to sit me down and tell me that it was OK to miss their games, their concerts and their events, because my country needed me more, and if they did that, they would be remembered in the history books as the people who changed the course of our country’s history.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: family, pastors by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
President Ronald Reagan used to joke that the nine most terrifying words in the English language were, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
It was one of his classic tongue-in-cheek references, but memorable because it contained a grain of truth.
Well, according to a recent report, some officials are taking his faux warning to heart.
A review of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) website suggests that the term “government” is out and the phrase “federal family” is in.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith, family, policy by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
We were married on August 24, 1986, a sun drenched day in Santa Ana, California. It’s hard to believe that it’s been 25 years, a full quarter-century!
I first met Jean Stephens in 1985 at a wedding in California. People often say that weddings are great places to meet people (for good reason!), but at the time I wasn’t interested in finding a girlfriend. Honest! I had recently returned from a year in Japan and graduated from college.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith, family, marriage by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
You’ve heard the adage, “Happy wife, happy life,” but how about this one:
The happier your marriage, the better your chance of surviving and recovering from heart surgery.
It’s true.
According to a new study out of the University of Rochester, the better a person’s marriage, the more likely they are to live longer after heart surgery than those who are single or unhappy in marriage.
“I can only imagine that people who have a good marriage are pretty happy people,” said a Boston cardiac surgeon, Robert Hagberg.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: faith, family, marriage by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
What’s the main cause of teenage rage in America?
Is it a matter of poor parenting – or no parenting at all?
Writing in last Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan drew a chilling parallel between fatherless homes and the riots we’re seeing in England, as well as the “flash mob” incidents that have been occurring with increasing frequency here in the U.S.
In regard to what to do about it, Ms. Noonan reflected:
The normal, old response to an emerging problem such as this has been: The government has to do something.
Topics: Family and Home Tags: adoption, family, parenting by Jim Daly with Paul Batura
Jim Daly is a husband, father and President of Focus on the Family and host of its National Radio Hall of Fame broadcast. His blog, Daly Focus, is full of timely commentary and wisdom designed to help you navigate and understand today’s culture. His latest book is Marriage Done Right.