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Andrea Mrozek

Andrea Mrozek

The Catholic Register鱿鱼视频app regular columnist, Andrea Mrozek, recently published the book I...Do? Why Marriage Still Matters, co-written with Peter Jon Mitchell, Cardus program director for family. Here is an edited excerpt. 

Volumes have been written on the consequences associated with unconstrained sexual freedom. Few would contest a breakdown of the relationship between the sexes. Apps intended to facilitate dating do anything but. 

Two recent ads are receiving accolades for their pro-family messaging. The first is , promoting the car鱿鱼视频app safety features in protecting a mother with a child in utero. The second commercial for  flashes back in time to show us how a new baby became the teenager her father is now watching unwrap the gift of a new guitar. Both present beautiful vignettes speaking to the meaningful adventure that is family. Both give a positive portrayal of men, which is quasi-miraculous today. Both contribute to a culture in which we can watch what we know in our hearts: that family is a major source of meaning for everyone. 

Pro-life people are used to euphemisms in the abortion debate. The term 鈥減ro-life鈥 itself is often denigrated because some believe pro-lifers are only concerned about life in the womb, and not the fullness of life afterwards. In reality, 鈥減ro-life鈥 is about as clear as any term used to discuss abortion. It鱿鱼视频app those on the other side who mostly prefer to speak in euphemism and/or double speak. 

Infants born alive after abortion has come up recently. But why discuss this most electric of third rail issues? Babies born alive after an abortion in the second trimester is 鈥渃ommon.鈥

鈥淲e know that we've stolen a year of childhood right around the Western world, the year of five, when our little ones are still supposed to be largely running around outside building sandcastles, and pretending they're unicorns or dragons.鈥 Australian author Maggie Dent spoke these words on Janet Lansbury鱿鱼视频app parenting podcast Unruffled. 鈥淲e stole that year and when we did that, the pressure for you to get your kid ready for school has intensified and yet the capacity for our children to accelerate their development on any level hasn't changed at all.鈥 

鈥淚 am busy with other things, mainly running the household for me and my 90-year-old sister plus a young working man who came to stay three years ago and doesn't look like leaving any time soon,鈥 a friend wrote me recently. I had asked about her retirement and she said she wanted to find time to write. Before retirement, she had been a journalist. 

How big a role do women鱿鱼视频app fears about losing their identity play in low fertility rates? 

Louise Perry, author of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution and host of the excellent Maiden, Mother, Matriarch podcast, raised the question on a recent episode. Hearing women on TikTok and other social media talk about the issue of identity as a barrier to motherhood, she said, 鈥淚 don鈥檛 get it. I can鈥檛 interpret what it means.鈥 

Growing up, my Aunt Louise was at our house for every major holiday. My sister and I slept over at her house when my parents were moving. To this day I get nostalgic about Dr. Pepper for the simple reason that she let me drink it.

On International Women鱿鱼视频app Day, The Globe and Mail published a lengthy article about the difficulties millennial mothers face. An article released later in March also discusses 鈥渢he motherhood penalty and its impact on Canadian women in the workplace.鈥 Both are effectively summarized by this quote: 鈥淭he world isn鈥檛 set up to support young mothers at work.鈥

鈥淚s Toronto finally shaking off the sexual stigma of polyamory?鈥 reads the recent headline in the Toronto Star. News outlets have been peddling polyamory apologetics after a middle-aged woman released a book about her life-changing adventures pursuing polyamory in January 2024.

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