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 [...]
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 [...]
—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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]