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Lecture posted August 9, 2010 by Miriam Grossman, M.D. You're Teaching My Child What? The Truth About Sex Education
Abstract: The principles of sexual health education are not based on the hard sciences. Sex education is animated by a specific vision of how society must change, and because of this, sex ed curricula omit critical biological truths and endorse high-risk behaviors. The priority…
WebMemo posted April 12, 2010 by Chuck Donovan Obamacare: Impact on the Family
Families have good reason to be concerned about how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010[1] will affect them. While the law will deliver a health insurance entitlement to millions of individuals and families, many of its provisions weaken family choice of coverage, undermine…
Factsheet on June 19, 2009 Obama's Health Care Agenda: How it Will Hurt American Families
What It Will Do It Undermines Parental Authority: Instead of empowering parents, President Obama's health care plan will chip away at the fundamental rights parents have…
WebMemo posted April 8, 2009 by Jennifer Marshall, Katherine Bradley The Dirty Dozen: 12 New Policies That Undermine Civil Society
Within the first quarter of 2009, the Obama Administration and the 111th Congress have advanced a number of policies that will undermine family and religious freedom in America. Together they show a serious disregard for parental rights, human dignity, freedom of conscience, and civil society in American life. In…
Backgrounder posted January 15, 2009 by Jennifer Marshall Religious Liberty in America: An Idea Worth Sharing Through Public Diplomacy
Since the end of the Cold War, public diplomacy has been in a bit of turmoil. There was a sense that ideological struggle had largely ceased or had at least faded into the background, but the whiplash of 9/11 yanked attention back to ideological warfare -- and it should stay there. The United States…
Backgrounder posted September 15, 2008 by Daniel Moloney, Ph.D. Reforming Health Care to Protect Parents' Rights
In pursuing health care reform, federal and state policymakers alike need to respect and protect parental rights and responsibilities. Currently, they are not doing so. A 14-year-old grade-school girl in Kentucky arrives at the local health clinic seeking birth control. Who should decide whether she receives it? The doctor? The girl? Or her parents? The…
WebMemo posted December 3, 2007 by Daniel Moloney, Ph.D. SCHIP Expansion: More Birth Control for Minors, Less Involvement by Parents
In their effort to override the President's veto of legislation to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Members of Congress have added to the "compromise" legislation (H.R. 3963) two little noticed provisions that would undermine parents' right to consent to--or even know about--medical care given to their children through school-based health clinics. Such "medical…
Backgrounder posted January 28, 2004 by Robert Rector, Melissa Pardue, Shannan Martin What Do Parents Want Taught in Sex Education Programs?
Debates about sex education have focused on two different approaches: "safe sex" courses, which encourage teens to use contraceptives, especially condoms, when having sex, and abstinence education, which encourages teens to delay sexual activity. In recent years, advocacy groups such as SIECUS (the Sex Information and education Council of the…
Backgrounder posted February 5, 2001 by Patrick Fagan, Ph.D. How U.N. Conventions On Women's and Children's Rights UndermineFamily, Religion, and Sovereignty
Few Americans are aware that agencies within the United Nations system are involved in a campaign to undermine the foundations of society--the two-parent married family, religions that espouse the primary importance of marriage and traditional sexual morality, and the legal and social structures that protect these institutions.1 Using the political cover of international…
Report on July 23, 1996 How Congress Can Protect the Rights of Parents to Raise Their Children
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WebMemo posted April 12, 2010 by Chuck Donovan Obamacare: Impact on the Family
Families have good reason to be concerned about how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010[1] will affect them. While the law will deliver a health insurance entitlement to millions of individuals and families, many of its provisions weaken family choice of coverage, undermine…
Backgrounder posted January 28, 2004 by Robert Rector, Melissa Pardue, Shannan Martin What Do Parents Want Taught in Sex Education Programs?
Debates about sex education have focused on two different approaches: "safe sex" courses, which encourage teens to use contraceptives, especially condoms, when having sex, and abstinence education, which encourages teens to delay sexual activity. In recent years, advocacy groups such as SIECUS (the Sex Information and education Council of the…
WebMemo posted December 3, 2007 by Daniel Moloney, Ph.D. SCHIP Expansion: More Birth Control for Minors, Less Involvement by Parents
In their effort to override the President's veto of legislation to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Members of Congress have added to the "compromise" legislation (H.R. 3963) two little noticed provisions that would undermine parents' right to consent to--or even know about--medical care given to their children through school-based health clinics. Such "medical…
Lecture posted August 9, 2010 by Miriam Grossman, M.D. You're Teaching My Child What? The Truth About Sex Education
Abstract: The principles of sexual health education are not based on the hard sciences. Sex education is animated by a specific vision of how society must change, and because of this, sex ed curricula omit critical biological truths and endorse high-risk behaviors. The priority…
WebMemo posted April 8, 2009 by Jennifer Marshall, Katherine Bradley The Dirty Dozen: 12 New Policies That Undermine Civil Society
Within the first quarter of 2009, the Obama Administration and the 111th Congress have advanced a number of policies that will undermine family and religious freedom in America. Together they show a serious disregard for parental rights, human dignity, freedom of conscience, and civil society in American life. In…
Backgrounder posted February 5, 2001 by Patrick Fagan, Ph.D. How U.N. Conventions On Women's and Children's Rights UndermineFamily, Religion, and Sovereignty
Few Americans are aware that agencies within the United Nations system are involved in a campaign to undermine the foundations of society--the two-parent married family, religions that espouse the primary importance of marriage and traditional sexual morality, and the legal and social structures that protect these institutions.1 Using the political cover of international…
Factsheet on June 19, 2009 Obama's Health Care Agenda: How it Will Hurt American Families
What It Will Do It Undermines Parental Authority: Instead of empowering parents, President Obama's health care plan will chip away at the fundamental rights parents have…
Backgrounder posted September 15, 2008 by Daniel Moloney, Ph.D. Reforming Health Care to Protect Parents' Rights
In pursuing health care reform, federal and state policymakers alike need to respect and protect parental rights and responsibilities. Currently, they are not doing so. A 14-year-old grade-school girl in Kentucky arrives at the local health clinic seeking birth control. Who should decide whether she receives it? The doctor? The girl? Or her parents? The…
Backgrounder posted January 15, 2009 by Jennifer Marshall Religious Liberty in America: An Idea Worth Sharing Through Public Diplomacy
Since the end of the Cold War, public diplomacy has been in a bit of turmoil. There was a sense that ideological struggle had largely ceased or had at least faded into the background, but the whiplash of 9/11 yanked attention back to ideological warfare -- and it should stay there. The United States…
Report on July 23, 1996 How Congress Can Protect the Rights of Parents to Raise Their Children
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WebMemo posted April 12, 2010 by Chuck Donovan Obamacare: Impact on the Family
Families have good reason to be concerned about how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010[1] will affect them. While the law will deliver a health insurance entitlement to millions of individuals and families, many of its provisions weaken family choice of coverage, undermine…
WebMemo posted April 8, 2009 by Jennifer Marshall, Katherine Bradley The Dirty Dozen: 12 New Policies That Undermine Civil Society
Within the first quarter of 2009, the Obama Administration and the 111th Congress have advanced a number of policies that will undermine family and religious freedom in America. Together they show a serious disregard for parental rights, human dignity, freedom of conscience, and civil society in American life. In…
Backgrounder posted January 15, 2009 by Jennifer Marshall Religious Liberty in America: An Idea Worth Sharing Through Public Diplomacy
Since the end of the Cold War, public diplomacy has been in a bit of turmoil. There was a sense that ideological struggle had largely ceased or had at least faded into the background, but the whiplash of 9/11 yanked attention back to ideological warfare -- and it should stay there. The United States…
Backgrounder posted September 15, 2008 by Daniel Moloney, Ph.D. Reforming Health Care to Protect Parents' Rights
In pursuing health care reform, federal and state policymakers alike need to respect and protect parental rights and responsibilities. Currently, they are not doing so. A 14-year-old grade-school girl in Kentucky arrives at the local health clinic seeking birth control. Who should decide whether she receives it? The doctor? The girl? Or her parents? The…
WebMemo posted December 3, 2007 by Daniel Moloney, Ph.D. SCHIP Expansion: More Birth Control for Minors, Less Involvement by Parents
In their effort to override the President's veto of legislation to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Members of Congress have added to the "compromise" legislation (H.R. 3963) two little noticed provisions that would undermine parents' right to consent to--or even know about--medical care given to their children through school-based health clinics. Such "medical…
Backgrounder posted January 28, 2004 by Robert Rector, Melissa Pardue, Shannan Martin What Do Parents Want Taught in Sex Education Programs?
Debates about sex education have focused on two different approaches: "safe sex" courses, which encourage teens to use contraceptives, especially condoms, when having sex, and abstinence education, which encourages teens to delay sexual activity. In recent years, advocacy groups such as SIECUS (the Sex Information and education Council of the…
Backgrounder posted February 5, 2001 by Patrick Fagan, Ph.D. How U.N. Conventions On Women's and Children's Rights UndermineFamily, Religion, and Sovereignty
Few Americans are aware that agencies within the United Nations system are involved in a campaign to undermine the foundations of society--the two-parent married family, religions that espouse the primary importance of marriage and traditional sexual morality, and the legal and social structures that protect these institutions.1 Using the political cover of international…
Report on July 23, 1996 How Congress Can Protect the Rights of Parents to Raise Their Children
…

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