by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D
“It Takes a Village to Raise a Child,” was Hillary Clinton’s Big Idea in the 1990s. Hillary’s supporters and detractors alike regard that slogan as a thinly-veiled code for increasing the government’s responsibility for the care of children. The demographic decline of Europe illustrates what would happen if we took this Village-Raising-Children image seriously. (more…)
Miscarriage of care.
By Jennifer Roback Morse
“Family Buries Toddler” read the headline in the San Diego Union Tribune. Police arrested the child’s foster mother, on suspicion of her perpetrating the massive brain injuries which caused the two-year-old’s death. But the people really responsible for the child’s demise will never be arrested. Although it is customary to blame the incompetence of the foster-care system for a senseless death like this, foster care per se did not kill Malachi. The child welfare system’s unwillingness to terminate parental rights killed him. (more…)
by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D
(Originally published on Mercator Net, June 11, 2007)
The title of Patricia Morgan’s new book, The War Between the State and the Family, is fighting talk. But the British sociologist has a lot of evidence on her side when she alleges that modern governments are engaged in “systematic discrimination against (married) couples in the tax and benefit system.” (62) In the words of her subtitle, she aims to show “How Government Divides and Impoverishes” the family. (more…)
by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D
The title of Patricia Morgan’s new book, The War Between the State and the Family, says it all. The British government has engaged in “systematic discrimination against (married) couples in the tax and benefit system.” This persuasive book, published by the Institute of Economic Affairs in the UK, provides a cautionary tale about “deconstructing” the family into a mere collection of individuals. In so doing, Patricia Morgan provides an illustration of the principles of Catholic social teaching laid out in Leo’s 1891 letter, Rerum Novarum. (more…)
by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D
originally published on townhall.com on September 4, 2006
Freedom-loving people might once have believed that the gay rights movement was about protecting gay people from unwarranted interference with their private lives. No one can believe that any longer. The gay caucus of the California State Assembly is an aggressive and intrusive movement that brooks no disagreement. (more…)
