Family

Mexican governor blocks gender identity bill over family concerns

Supporters praised the move as a defence of family life, while Morena legislators and LGBT+ groups condemned it

The hidden costs of overparenting

A culture of over-caution and status anxiety has made parenting more difficult, not because children are less safe than before, but because society expects parents to perform constant vigilance

Why falling birth rates should concern everyone

Ireland’s fertility rate has fallen well below replacement level, raising difficult questions about family formation, childlessness and the choices people are able to make

Fertility is not a policy problem

Governments across the developed world are searching for policy solutions to falling birth rates, but the crisis stems from a deeper failure to understand the purpose of womanhood

Teaching children to wonder before the Eucharist

Before we teach children every detail of the Eucharist, we can help them recognise the One who waits for them

Sleepwalking into eugenics

From Down’s syndrome screening to assisted suicide, modern Britain is embracing choices that previous generations would have recognised as eugenic

One in four Gen Z women may never have children, Irish study warns

A new Iona Institute paper forecasts that almost one in four Irish Gen Z women could reach 45 without having children if current trends continue

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Lola Salem on the domestic Upper Room

In an age of fragmentation and utility, how families might recover the older tradition of forming minds and souls at home

Cultural shifts are main driver of collapsing marriage rates

A new Heritage Foundation report argues that changing attitudes to sex, cohabitation and childbearing have done more than economics to weaken marriage in America

The new industrial revolution is already here

The information age is reshaping rural America in ways that echo the early Industrial Revolution, concentrating wealth while hollowing out communities