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By Michael T. Ross, M.D. & Mike McManus Marriage is the vibrant center of the common good. At a time when systemic disintegration of marriage has created a crisis of global proportions, marriage remains the most valuable and cost effective resource for a family, a...

The disintegration of marriage is the issue for 21st century America. While 90 percent of America's top jobs require a college degree, 60 percent of children in urban schools don't graduate from high school.  In Detroit, a predominantly African American city, only 25%...

Marriage doesn’t seem to be an important component of our families these days—at least if you believe what our culture tells us.  The Hollywood version of family is quasi-living together, outrageous weddings, serial marriage and divorce, and belligerent behavior...

The American dream has been aborted. Washington and state leaders of both parties have jettisoned our fundamental rights--rights such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  Our founders fought hard for these rights and enshrined them in our Constitution and...

The Conciliation Courts movement began in Los Angeles.  The California Conciliation Court Act, which was enacted in 1939, permitted the judge in any court in the State to establish a Conciliation Court.  The mission of the Conciliation Court was primarily to preserve...

Marriage is supposed to be the safe harbor for raising children.  But when no-fault divorce laws were introduced, the safe harbor was lost because marriage became disposable. A marriage can now be ended by a unilateral act that disregards the other person. At the time...

By Michael T. Ross, M.D. & Michael J. McManus For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. Genesis 2:24 "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and...

March 30, 2009   For many of us the account of the world being created by God is a privileged witness to the foundational conviction that those who worship the One God and call Abraham their father bring to all human affairs: namely, the conviction that the human...

  March 17, 1995  The Heritage Foundation Patrick Fagan         INTRODUCTION Policymakers at last are coming to recognize the connection between the breakdown of American families and various social problems. The unfolding debate over...