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Massachusetts Family Institute has been dedicated to strengthening the family in the Commonwealth for 30 years. The latest census data and social science research confirm that children do best when they are raised in a home with both their mother and their father, and it is part of our mission
Commentary
The Age of Selfies: Reasoning About Rights When the Stakes Are Personal By Adam J. MacLeod Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 168 pages We live in an age of ideological civil war. And as in most wars, both sides think that the outcome is vital for our nation. The differences between
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For several years now, I've spent early June researching, thinking, and writing about the effect of fatherlessness in Massachusetts. Father's Day is typically the one time of year when the national conversation turns its attention for a brief moment to dads, so I seize that opportunity
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When is the appropriate age for students to be taught how to engage in oral and anal sex? This is not a question most parents have probably thought a lot about, but it's one that legislators on Beacon Hill are forcing us to ask. Eighty-three state representatives and
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This Father's Day Weekend, I happen to be turning 40. Fortunately, with a wife and four young children, there will be precious little time to worry about any looming mid-life crisis. The emphasis will remain, full speed ahead, on fatherhood. But it's worth taking a moment
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Several months back I received a phone call out of the blue late one afternoon from a youth pastor at a Boston area church. He had questions about transgenderism and discrimination laws. Specifically, he was planning an overnight youth retreat for his church and was concerned because two of the
Fontbonne
This has been a bad week for people of faith in Massachusetts. On Wednesday, Norfolk County Superior Court Judge Douglas Wilkins ruled that Fontbonne Academy, a Catholic all-girls school in Milton, cannot refuse to hire a man who is married to another man, despite the fact that Catholic teaching defines