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Study: Marriage and lots of kids bring most happiness

December 3, 2009 · 0 comments

A recent study has found that getting married and having children increase happiness and overall life satisfaction. Commenting on the results, author and TV personality Rachel Campos-Duffy told CNA that this runs counter to the prevailing culture and “reminds couples to appreciate each other and the beautiful messiness of child-rearing right here and now.”

Published on Oct. 14 in the online edition of the Journal of Happiness Studies, the study, titled “Children and Life Satisfaction” emphasizes the importance of couples being married with children, versus unmarried with children. The study concluded that single, separated or cohabiting people with children reported negative experiences as opposed to married couples with children, who reported positive experiences.

Dr. Luis Angeles, professor at Glasgow University in Scotland and author of the study stated that “one is tempted to advance that children make people better off under the ‘right conditions’ – a time in life when people feel they are ready or at least willing, to enter parenthood.” Angeles continued to say that “this time can come at very different moments for different individuals, but a likely signal of its approach may well be the act of marriage.”

Ya think?

The study also concluded that the more children a married couple has, the greater the life satisfaction, especially for women.

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Christians Unite! The Manhattan Declaration

November 25, 2009 · 2 comments

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Here is something all Christians can get behind together. If we stand together on these important issues that are at the very core of living out our Christian faith, both society and The Body of Christ will benefit greatly.

Christians, when they have lived up to the highest ideals of their faith, have defended the weak and vulnerable and worked tirelessly to protect and strengthen vital institutions of civil society, beginning with the family.

We are Orthodox, Catholic, and evangelical Christians who have united at this hour to reaffirm fundamental truths about justice and the common good, and to call upon our fellow citizens, believers and non-believers alike, to join us in defending them. These truths are (1) the sanctity of human life, (2) the dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife, and (3) the rights of conscience and religious liberty. Inasmuch as these truths are foundational to human dignity and the well-being of society, they are inviolable and non-negotiable. Because they are increasingly under assault from powerful forces in our culture, we are compelled today to speak out forcefully in their defense, and to commit ourselves to honoring them fully no matter what pressures are brought upon us and our institutions to abandon or compromise them. We make this commitment not as partisans of any political group but as followers of Jesus Christ, the crucified and risen Lord, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

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Pope’s message reinforces Marriage and Family

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Gay “Marriage” Voted Down…Again

Gay “marriage” was voted down again this week in Maine. Activist judges keep trying to push it on people and the people keep rejecting it. In fact, every single state with legalized gay “marriage” has done so by way of the court imposing it. And in every single state where the issue [...]

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Common-sense against same-sex unions

In the past, I’ve written on this issue a number of times. We’ve discussed it in terms of the civil law, the preservation of language, the intolerance of belief, and the theology of the body. All of them had, at the center, an appeal to the Natural Law.

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Prop 8 Properly Upheld

Tuesday this week (May 26, 2009) the California Supreme Court upheld the ban on gay marriage in their state.  It was the right decision.  And I’ll tell you why.

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Quote of the Day: Most important thing a father can do

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother” – Theodore Hesburgh
Marriage is the foundation of the family. Children need this solid foundation more than anything else a parent can give them. That is why divorce and children outside of marriage are some of the greatest [...]

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The Intolerant Beached Whale

In my last post I attempted to highlight the fact that nature itself has set the guidelines for marriage to include members of the opposite sex.  Any attempt to redefine marriage to include the union of same-sex couples would fundamentally change the meaning of the word.  In other words, it is nonsense to portray any [...]

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The Definition of a Word: Marriage

There were a few brights spots in the recent election cycle in regard to the issues of Life and Family.  Although we elected a very socially liberal president in Barack Obama, this does not at all seem to indicate any kind of major social shift in actual American values.
In other words, he was not elected [...]

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