Marriage and Family
Written on 26 Dec, 2002 at 13:40 in
Marriage and Family, Profiles | Author:
Clayton Lee, proprietor of St. Bernard Books, always has a smile on his face when he sees me approach one of his displays at various pro-life conferences and strategy meetings. (If you can't make it to these events, check out his website at stbernardbooks.com.) Clayton smiles because he knows I'm a sucker for good books and he ... (Continue reading)
Written on 26 Dec, 2002 at 13:37 in
Marriage and Family, Society & Culture | Author:
Peter Stock
Anything but sticking up for traditional marriage is on the table
Courts in Ontario and Quebec have recently ruled that the exclusive man-woman definition of marriage discriminates against homosexuals. Homosexual activists brought suits in three provinces, each arguing a different aspect of constitutional law on the subject. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Oct, 2002 at 11:33 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
An Alberta priest's principled insistence on upholding Catholic teaching, rather than buckle to contemporary sensibilities by refusing a church wedding to a Planned Parenthood employee, raised a media storm recently.
Fr. John Maes, pastor at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic church in Medicine Hat, informed Celina Ling that he would not preside over her wedding, after her name appeared in a Medicine Hat News article about Planned Parenthood. He ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Sep, 2002 at 8:01 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
Study finds single men worse off than smokers
LifeSite News
The health benefits of marriage are so large that single men suffer worse health effects than smokers, according to a new study. Professor Andrew Oswald of Warwick University, north of Oxford, England, studied thousands of records from the British Household Panel Survey and the British Retirement Survey. He found ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Sep, 2002 at 6:59 in
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Canada's fertility rate falling
OTTAWA - According to Statistics Canada, the country's fertility rate is falling way below replacement level. The fertility rate - the average number of children born per woman - fell to 1.52, compared to the American rate of 2.08. Experts attribute the decline at least in part to young women deciding to postpone marriage while getting established in a career. "When you postpone having children, you have fewer," Alain Belanger, co-author of the Report on the Demographic ... (Continue reading)
Written on 5 Sep, 2002 at 6:58 in
Editorials, Marriage and Family | Author:
Few conflicts are as bitter, and few subjects as contentious, as homosexual unions. Included in this debate are the familiar questions that our morally squeamish society avoids answering: what is marriage? What is the state's role in it? And how far, as a society, should we allow this sacred institution to be compromised?
Marriage has existed from time immemorial as a religious entity recognized by the state, but now, the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Aug, 2002 at 14:11 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
The day before the Ontario Superior Court ruling allowing same-sex marriages, Statistics Canada noted a marked increase in the number of couples choosing common-law arrangements over marriage. The July 11 report, entitled "Changing conjugal life in Canada," was based on data compiled from the 2001 General Social Survey. The study showed that close to 1.2 million couples were living in a common-law relationship, up 20 per cent from 1995. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Jun, 2002 at 7:17 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
Marg Brouillette
Bourget joins Dobson ministry full-time
When Darrell Reid took over the leadership of Focus on the Family Canada three years ago, he knew that the organization would be different than its American counterpart. For one thing, Canada is bilingual. To truly serve and strengthen Canadian families as its vision states, Focus on the Family would have to impact the 20 per cent of the population that ... (Continue reading)
Written on 3 May, 2002 at 12:59 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
Emily Murphy
In November 2001, Ontario Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced an early Christmas present for the province's most needy: a $100 cheque for every low- and middle-income working family with young children. Now, $100 is hardly a fortune these days. But this small sum of money caused quite a big stir in the letters to the editor section of the Toronto Sun. One woman seethed at Flaherty's announcement, saying she ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Jan, 2002 at 13:36 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
LifeSite News
In comments made in the Senate on November 22, British Columbia Senator Mobina Jaffer said defending the existing definition of marriage is tantamount to "giving comfort to those who hate." Focus on the Family reported that Jaffer's comments came in a debate around a bill seeking to affirm in law that marriage is exclusively "between a man and a woman," introduced last January by Senator Anne Cools.
Jaffer said ... (Continue reading)
Written on 21 Dec, 2001 at 11:27 in
Marriage and Family, Politics | Author:
Eli Schuster
In a 1995 opinion article for Saturday Night magazine, conservative columnist David Frum argued that gay and lesbian weddings would destroy the institution of marriage. "To revitalize marriage, we must constantly remind people of how much society honours it," wrote Frum. "Nothing could be better calculated to diminish marriage in people's eyes than an elite insistence on uni-sexing it. Gay marriage will look to much of the rest of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Nov, 2001 at 13:53 in
Marriage and Family, Paul Tuns | Author:
Paul Tuns
In an Oct. 2 ruling, the British Columbia Supreme Court upheld marriage as the union between a man and a woman, thus barring homosexual unions from the institution.
Justice Ian Pitfield stated in his decision that the common law definition of marriage, which is the union between a man and a woman only, cannot be extended to include same-sex relationships.
Janet Epp Buckingham, general legal counsel for the Evangelical Fellowship of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Oct, 2001 at 12:47 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
Fr Ted Colleton
Recently I saw a TV program on the subject of the increase of violence among young people. A few days later I came across an article in a secular paper on the same subject. Both the TV program and the article suggested reasons for this sad phenomenon and the common denominator seemed to be the breakdown of the family. This gave me the idea of writing about the importance ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Oct, 2001 at 11:59 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
Several demonstrations held to protest CAS action
The next chapter in the Aylmer, Ont. child-seizure saga is due to be written Nov. 2.
That's the date when interested parties return to the courtroom for an "informal settlement conference," to determine whether the situation can be resolved without resort to a formal trial. A June 6 raid saw about a dozen police officers remove seven children, aged six to 14, from a home in this ... (Continue reading)
Written on 20 Sep, 2001 at 8:40 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
Hamilton pro-family group helps parents know their rights
The recent lobbying by the Ontario public teachers union to introduce homosexuality-oriented books into schools has prompted heightened parent interest in a Declaration of Family Rights document that seeks to protect children from negative moral influences at school.
The Hamilton-Wentworth Family Action Council created the document in November 1999 mainly as a response to what it saw as permissive sexual education being directed at ... (Continue reading)
