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Attention Parents: Illinois Has Horrible Proficiency Rates
A devasting new report from researchers at Wirepoints, a nonpartisan, Illinois-based research and news organization, reveals that Illinois is failing its children and their families. Students are failing math on a widescale level. A mere 27% of Illinois students are able to solve math problems at their grade level. An astonishing 1.4 million children are not proficient in math.
Posted in Education, Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged children, education, families, Illinois, proficiency, Ted Dabrowski
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What Once Was Can Be Again: Christian Education and the Reformation
We are now in mid-2017, the 500th anniversary of the epochal and world-changing Reformation. By revisiting the teaching of that era, we can gain a renewed hope for the modern evangelical Church, the rightful heir to that rich theology and history.
Posted in Education, Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty
Tagged children, Christianity, education, families, John Calvin, Martin Luther, Matthew Fox, Matthew McConaughey, Reformation, Roman Catholic Church, Ulrich Zwingli
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Happy Tradwives and Mother’s Day
We have become a society of neologisms. But you likely know that. Even if you don’t know what the word means. Webster explains this is a noun used to describe “a new word, usage, or expression.” A few examples include beatnik, cyberspace, and workaholic.
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged Anne Helen Petersen, Caitlin Clark, Emily McGowin, families, Kelsey Kramer McGinnis, Marriage, Mother's Day, tradwives
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A Brave Way to Nurture Learning
Frederick Douglass once said, “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” Reading is vitally important to a child’s imagination and education. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) notes, "At all three grades, students who more frequently read for fun on their own time had higher average proficiencies."
Posted in Child Exploitation, Education, Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty, Sanctity of Life, Sexuality
Tagged books, Brave Books, Christianity, families, Kirk Cameron, literature, Trent Talbot
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Choose You This Day: Part 3
A sad commentary on American culture is its confusion regarding love, to the point that love has been flipped on its head to become its opposite! Today, if you genuinely love, you will probably be called a hater, and many will declare that you are loving when what you say and do is actually destructive and deadly!
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged agape, career, children, Christianity, Culture, families, love, Mother's Day, sacrifice
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Progressives in Illinois Threaten Parental Authority Again
No one knows for sure who first said the phrase, “If your only tool is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.” Whether it was Mark Twain, Abraham Maslow, or someone else, it perfectly describes Illinois Democrats’ latest push to usurp control over our state’s kids.
Posted in Illinois Politics, Marriage/Family/Culture, Sexuality
Tagged children, families, Illinois, Illinois Legislature, LGBTQ, parental authority, Parents, SB 3316, social media, Springfield, woke
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What Do Diapers and Abortion Have in Common? More Than You Know.
Would you be surprised to learn that major diaper companies support Planned Parenthood? Yes, you read that correctly. Major diaper companies such as Huggies, Pampers, Luvs, and even Honest donate to Planned Parenthood.
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Sanctity of Life
Tagged Bud Light, children, diapers, EveryLife, EveryLife Diaper Company, families, Parents, Sanctity of Life, Target
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Keep Hammering! Unite to Restore Parents’ Rights!
Since its inception in January, the Parents Matter Coalition (“PMC”) has been on a mission to raise awareness, educate the community, and teach Illinoisans how to advocate for their families and push back on the legislators and bureaucrats who think they know better how to parent our children.
Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture, Sanctity of Life, Sexuality
Tagged children, families, parentmattercoalition, Parents, PMC
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Embryo Adoption: A Life-Affirming Option
Since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled on February 16 that frozen embryos should be recognized and protected as unborn children, Democrats have wrongfully alleged that Republicans want to “ban” in vitro fertilization (IVF). Even President Biden made this accusation during the State of the Union address last Thursday. However, this is not true. Republicans are not wanting to ban IVF.
Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture, Sanctity of Life
Tagged adoption, Alabama Supreme Court, babies, Biden, children, Embryo Adoption Awareness Center, families, fertility, In Vitro Fertilization, IVF, mothers, Parents, President Biden, State of the Union
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Biden’s HHS Claims That Those Families Who Don’t Affirm LGBTQ+ Identification are “Unsafe” for Children in Foster Care
The Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services Department (HHS) believes that Christians and others who hold traditional, moral values are not “safe” for children in foster care. At the end of September, they released a proposed rule of “safe and appropriate foster care placement requirements.”
Posted in Faith, Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty
Tagged adoption, Biden, children, Del Turco, families, foster care, HHS
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