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Forecasts show many millennial women won’t fulfill their wishes on family size, and the biggest fertility declines are in Western states.   By Lyman Stone   Feb. 13, 2018 America’s fertility is in precipitous decline. Our team of forecasters at Demographic...

DINNER FOR TWO (or More) Building Michigan’s Mission Field for Love   FRIDAY, JUNE 10, at 6:30 PM Please RSVP or order tickets no later than June 7.   Pasquales 31555 Woodward Ave Royal Oak, MI 48073 pasqualesrestaurant.com   Buffet dinner includes a...

Studies Confirm Importance of Marriage Rome,  November 08, 2015  (ZENIT.org)  Father John Flynn That healthy family life plays a vital role in the well-being of society is well established. A recent study provides ample detail regarding the economic impact of...

Marriage and family life is made especially for children and for young people of all ages. Sadly, too many start out in life in many of our cities like Detroit, Flint, Chicago, and Baltimore, with serious adversities and disadvantages, which may make home life...

Should a child have a fundamental right to know his or her mom and dad and be cared for by them together? Should there be a public institution that specifically unites children with mom and dad and promotes their rearing by mom and dad together? The U.S. Supreme Court...

It’s 2015 Year of Marriage in Michigan. Marriage Motown 2020 begins in Detroit at 3745 Taylor St. & Dexter south of Davidson on July 10 at 2 p.m. As one couple renews their vows at 25 years, two inspired couples promise “I do” love you to have and hold in...

Marriage Job One For Michigan By Dr. Michael T. Ross In this fifteenth year of the third Millennium, 2015, world attention converges on humanity’s clash with the natural male-female order of human life. Emboldened by pervasive passivity and indifference to the plight...

Leslie Ford February 21, 2015 It’s not normal these days for a teen to live with their married mom and dad. Fifty-four percent of U.S. teens 15-to-17-years-old do not live in a home with their married mother and father, according to the Fifth Annual Index of Family...

Metro Detroit marriage activists weigh In Dr. Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s landmark 1965 report linking unwed births with serious urban pathologies unleashed a stormy debate about marriage, and 50 years later the controversy continues. The Family Research Council (FRC)...

On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we stand up to defend these truths and their intimate relationship to the natural and civil rights of minor children: Marriage is the only institution that unites children with their mothers and fathers. It is the only institution that...

STEPHEN BASKERVILLE As the Synod of Bishops on the Family convenes this week, the Catholic Church has a heaven-sent opportunity to atone for one of the biggest failures in modern ecclesiastical history and in so doing to take a major step in resuscitating the...

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Katie This past Saturday, I was honored to speak at a prayer assembly before hundreds of people on the steps of the Michigan State Capitol.  The purpose was to pray for the three spiritual battles in our country: religious liberty, the...

By Michael T. Ross, M.D   Marriage is the civil rights issue of our day.  Suddenly, in little over a decade, America’s powers and principalities, guardians of law, the legal profession, and our judicial branch, have advanced an inscrutably dark agenda for...

WASHINGTON D.C., July 30 (CNA/EWTN News).   A “national retreat” from marriage could worsen social divides between the married and unmarried and plummeting rates are partly due to religious groups failing to reach the working class, says one scholar. “We have seen...