Marriage and Family
Written on 4 Apr, 1996 at 9:24 in
Abortion, Marriage and Family, Pro-Life | Author:
Tony Gosgnach
For years, radical groups have succeeded where it counts the most---in the courts. Now, a Canadian lawyers’ group is providing pro-family Canadians with a voice in the legal system
The Interim
Canadian pro-life activists have an ally they can count on when legal problems arise.
For the last three years, the Ottawa based Canadian Centre for Law and Justice has been providing legal representation and council without charge to pro-life groups and individuals. It’s part of what the Centre describes as its overall ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Mar, 1996 at 9:17 in
Marriage and Family, Society & Culture | Author:
Regina Farrell Quebec
It has been said, “As the family goes, so goes the nation.” Never a truer word has been said about Quebec.
The Vanier Institute of the Family recently published an article on Quebec’s plummeting marriage rates. Only about one third of Quebec men and slightly more women, about 37 percent, are likely to marry. This is an unprecedented drop from a marriage rate of about 85 to 90 percent just a generation ago.
Even the birth of children proves to be little ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Mar, 1996 at 9:13 in
Marriage and Family, Motherhood, Society & Culture | Author:
Dr. James Dobson —at his mother and me, at his sister, and at the world. Believe me, we have done nothing to provoke this anger, and I don’t understand what has caused it.
DR. DOBSON: At least part of the answer to that question can be explained by the “in-between” stages of teenagers. They live in an era when they enjoy neither the privileges of adulthood nor the advantages of childhood.
Consider the plight of the average 15-year-old. All of the highly advertised adult ... (Continue reading)
Written on 18 Feb, 1996 at 13:34 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
Gloria Lawrenson In part two of her series, Gloria travels from pool halls to movie theatres to churches, studying the sexual attitudes of today’s youth and reaches some surprising conclusions.
They say there’s a first time for everything. For me, it was getting kicked out of a grungy pool hall on boxing day.
No – I wasn’t swearing or fighting or cheating. I was doing exactly what I promised January Interim readers I’d do – talking to teens about sex. And talk they did. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Nov, 1995 at 14:45 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
Joanne Dieleman This was the title of a “Mother’s Day Story” printed in the May 1993 issue of The Interim. In that article Grace Petrasek tells Rosemary’s story.
Clayton and Rosemary Connell are a typical prolife couple. They love children. Their house is full of them. Tuan and Lien---who were among the boat people---and the two South American boys, are adopted. And four of their own makes eight.
Their home in Port Perry, Ont. (they have since moved) is also a haven for pregnant ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Oct, 1995 at 14:06 in
Marriage and Family, Society & Culture | Author:
Interim Staff Threats to family life can come in many different forms. Often, the more subtle and hidden threats are among the most powerful. A case in point is the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ----or at least our current devotion to it.
GDP is the universal measuring rod of the strength and well-being of a country’s economy. It is the total of all goods and services produced in a country during a year.
Government, business and the media are all GDP devotees. Governments are ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Sep, 1995 at 10:47 in
Marriage and Family, Society & Culture | Author:
William R. Mattox, Jr. Forget the Enjoli Woman. The delegates to the UN’s Fourth World Conference on Women taking place in Beijing, China aren’t interested in proving that they “can bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan.”
According the Grete Berget, who heads the Norwegian delegation, the conferees are interested instead in finding effective ways to “get men to share working at home.”
I’ve got a little tip for Ms. Berget and other delegates looking for men willing to help with the ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Jul, 1995 at 11:44 in
Marriage and Family, Movie Review | Author:
Sue Careless $29, plus $4.95 shipping
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Reviewed by Sue Careless
A video on sexually transmitted diseases could be so statistically heavy that it would bore its audience to tears or such a downer it would be tuned out. Teen Sex: Challenge and Decision informs without boring and gives kids positive solutions.
The narrator and co-producer, Stephen Genuis (pronounced Jenis), has two real strategies: he knows both his data and his audience. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Jun, 1995 at 13:35 in
Abortion, Issues, Marriage and Family, Politics, Population | Author:
Interim Staff Off the Wire
Family Practice News reports that the California Academy of family physicians. Has voted to recommend that all family physicians be trained in abortion techniques and “the importance to access to this medical service.” The group plans to offer a similar resolution at the American Academy of Family Physicians meeting later this year.
A California abortionist accused of murdering a patient in a botched abortion has fled the U.S. Local pro-life groups have criticized District Attorney General Paul Pfingst for ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 1995 at 14:42 in
Marriage and Family, Motherhood, Society & Culture | Author:
Gloria Lawson The Canadian point of view at a recent UN meeting preparing for the Beijing Women’s Conference held that men, in particular, are responsible for all violence, injustices and oppression against women
In 1924, The Department of Health for the Dominion of Canada published The Canadian Mother’s Book. Consider the high esteem in which the government used to regard the family:
“The greatest gift is a child, and the greatest honour is to be a mother.”
“The Government of Canada, knowing ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 May, 1995 at 14:39 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
Sue Careless “Seventy-five percent of marriages in North America are blessed by a pastor, priest or rabbi,” Mike McMannue, a nationally syndicated columnist and former Time correspondent, notes in his book. Marriage Savers. Therefore “the church bears a tremendous responsibility in preparing couples not for weddings which last a day, but for marriage which lasts a lifetime.”
About fifteen years ago, clergy and counselors became discouraged dealing with marriages on the rocks, counseling virtually hopeless cases. Often the pastor was the last ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 1995 at 10:00 in
Book Review, Marriage and Family | Author:
Sue Careless Last September, in an article entitles “Relieving an adopted child’s anxiety,” The Interim reviewed a number of children’s books on adoption. Most were for young readers. The following will take a child into her teen years.
While many adopted children fantasize about their birth parents Princess Alice by Nina Bawden, Andre Deutsch Ltd. 1995, turns the fantasy into reality. Alice actually does have a king for a birth father but she realizes, when given the choice, that she ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 1995 at 9:36 in
Marriage and Family | Author:
John Phillips Nine years ago a Decima Research Poll, published in Maclean’s magazine showed that for an “overwhelming” majority of adult Canadians, 81 per cent of them, the family was by far the most important part of their lives. Moreover, it found that “Canadians are turning inward to families and careers in search of personal rewards.”
Decima executive Bruce Anderson noted that many were disillusioned with society’s reward system, finding far more satisfaction with their spouses and children. This, surely, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Apr, 1995 at 9:23 in
Marriage and Family, Motherhood | Author:
REGINA FARRELL As last summer approached, I anticipated it with a certain dread: it was my turn to go “over the hill.” And indeed, I did turn forty. Fortunately, I have remained friends with several women since grade school, and we were all in it together. Each of us delighted in remembering the others’ birthdays and sending condolences. It was really pretty funny until my number was up. If you’ve been there you know. If you’re headed there, you can imagine. ... (Continue reading)
Written on 29 Jan, 1995 at 9:39 in
Equal Rights, Marriage and Family, Motherhood, Society & Culture | Author:
Bonnie Jalsevac Dr. Dobson’s speech wows 4,000 at Toronto’s Convention Centre
Several thousand people, cordially greeted by 100 volunteers poured into the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on December 5 to spend an “Evening In December” with Dr. James Dobson, founder and President of the non-profit Christian organization Focus on the Family.
The excellent 20 minute video on the history of Focus on the Family since its founding in 1977 showed its beginnings with Dr. Dobson and a few helpers to its present day headquarters ... (Continue reading)
