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General Assembly Rejects Controversial Sex Ed Programming, Launches Anti-Bullying Campaign
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General Assembly Rejects Controversial Sex Ed Programming, Launches Anti-Bullying Campaign

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by on Dec 01, 2016 in Education, Featured, Those in Need
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A three-year campaign to have the General Assembly endorse “comprehensive sexuality education” programming fizzled out during negotiations this year. Sponsors of the annual General Assembly resolution on the “Rights of the Child” did not include “comprehensive sexuality education” in the draft resolution that is being considered for adoption, resulting in a kind of ceasefire on […]

Challenging Children to Chastity
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Challenging Children to Chastity

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by on Mar 18, 2015 in Education, Featured, Parenting
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The title of this article is also the name of an extremely valuable online booklet by the late Father Henry V. Sattler, CSsR (1917-1999), yet it is also an assignment for today’s parents. Our children and grandchildren are bombarded daily with messages that contradict common sense and put their very lives in jeopardy. It is […]

New Paper Exposes Hidden Agenda of the Sex Ed Establishment
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New Paper Exposes Hidden Agenda of the Sex Ed Establishment

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by on Apr 29, 2014 in Education, Featured
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Reporters called one program “x-rated.” Another was dubbed “kindergarten sex ed.” A World Health Organization version led to a spectacular defeat in the European Parliament. UN delegates reject it as an assault on their culture. Comprehensive sexuality education often goes unchallenged – until people discover what it teaches. Now a new paper explains the politics […]

Wishing You a Filthy New Year?
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Wishing You a Filthy New Year?

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by on Jan 02, 2014 in Education, Featured, Parenting
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FILTHY: obscene, vile, impure, indecent, lascivious, lewd, pornographic, raunchy, vulgar In other words, not a very nice wish for the new year. But that is exactly what Planned Parenthood is offering our children. Not too long ago a mother wrote to me: “I am very concerned that, by using an abstinence-only approach to educating our […]

Contraception Does Not “Empower” Our Youth – A Conversion Story
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Contraception Does Not “Empower” Our Youth – A Conversion Story

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by on Oct 31, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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I visited St. Pius High School last week, located on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to teach about 100 students a sex education lesson focused on chastity. The headmaster of the school invited me to come give this lesson as the parents wanted teaching that reflects their traditional and faith values. Children in […]

Teenage Sex: A Family Affair?
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Teenage Sex: A Family Affair?

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by on Oct 21, 2013 in Dating & Singles, Featured, Parenting
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According to research published by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, our teens may have more wisdom than we give them credit for when it comes to sex education. Most teens (94 percent) think that adults should inform them that they ought to wait to have sex at least until they get out of […]

Sex Ed: Parents, It’s Your Job and You Can Do It
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Sex Ed: Parents, It’s Your Job and You Can Do It

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by on Jul 19, 2013 in Featured, Parenting
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“I just don’t even want to talk about it.” A mom confided she’d buried her head in the sand.  Yes, her daughter could reasonably expect her period sometime in the next few years.  But Mom just wasn’t ready yet. Moms and Dads: We have to get ready.  It is our job to teach our children […]

Health Teacher Needs Boundaries
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Health Teacher Needs Boundaries

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by on May 30, 2013 in Columnists, Education, Featured, Parenting
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To: Marybeth From: Annoyed by Unhealthy Questions I’m a freshman in high school. Our health teacher has a policy that there is no such thing as a stupid question about health, or no topic that is off limits. She makes a point to stress that she is willing to answer any question about sex and […]

Sex Education and Parental Rights
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Sex Education and Parental Rights

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by on Mar 27, 2013 in Columnists, Featured, Parenting, The Catholic Family
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ANALYSIS/OPINION: In this week’s email, a question comes from parents who don’t want their fourth grader to take the school district’s sex ed class: From: Too Sexy for 4th Grade To: Marybeth In our school district, sex education classes are presented to children starting in fourth grade. My husband and I don’t want our children learning about […]

Rio + 20: Catholics for Choice Deceives Itself and Others
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Rio + 20: Catholics for Choice Deceives Itself and Others

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by on Jun 21, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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If you have not seen the briefing paper from the Catholics for Choice (CFC) organization regarding the place of the Holy See in international politics, stop reading now and move on. It just isn’t worth your while to read garbage. But if you have and need some clarification, then you may want to learn about the […]

HHS Mandate Ignores Emotional Impact Casual Sex Has on Women
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HHS Mandate Ignores Emotional Impact Casual Sex Has on Women

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by on Jun 18, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Women
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When the Obama administration made the decision not to exempt Catholic hospitals and universities from the mandate to provide insured employees with contraceptives, morning after pills, and sterilization without a co-pay, one of those consulted was Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood. PP obviously has a special interest in having contraception covered, since dispensing contraception […]

Sexual Rights, Overpopulation and the World's Youth
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Sexual Rights, Overpopulation and the World’s Youth

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by on Apr 26, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured
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Tuesday marked day two of a week long conference on “Adolescents and Youth” held by the UN Commission on Population and Development (CPD). While the conference is supposed to address a wide range of topics related to population, development and youth, it has focused almost exclusively on promoting the sexual and reproductive rights of youth, […]

A (Sex-ed) Test D.C. Students Can Pass?
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A (Sex-ed) Test D.C. Students Can Pass?

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by on Sep 21, 2011 in Columnists, Education, Featured
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Here’s a pop quiz: What percentage of elementary school children in the District’s public schools is proficient in math? What about reading? What is the proficiency of D.C. high school students in these areas? The answer: less than half. Scores on the 2011 D.C. Comprehensive Assessment System exams showed only about 43 percent of elementary […]

The Missing Grace in Public School Abstinence Programs
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The Missing Grace in Public School Abstinence Programs

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by on Jul 25, 2011 in Education, Featured
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The chattering classes have focused fresh attention on what they perceive as that last definable sin: hypocrisy. They claim to have found it anew in Sarah Palin’s family, because her son — recently married — seems to have conceived his first child before exchanging vows. This has naturally led to heated discussions over the abstinence-based programs […]

Spiritually Adopt a Radical Liberal for Lent
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Spiritually Adopt a Radical Liberal for Lent

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by on Mar 08, 2011 in Columnists, Education, Featured
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The radical liberals are coming for your children.  It’s time to wake up, people.  These extremists have become emboldened by the decaying morals and rising apathy in America and they are now hard at work re-programming your children through our educational system. A recent article  from the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute included several […]

Beyond the Power of Angels
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Beyond the Power of Angels

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by on Jan 17, 2011 in Parenting
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Like a lot of other people, I have been very busy this season, and even though I’ve taken time off from my usual homeschooling schedule, I’ve managed to find plenty to keep me just as occupied as usual.  I have to watch my use of time, as I sometimes treat it as something that needs […]