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Family is the structure of civilization, and healthy family relationships give us security, stability, and happiness. Many of us do not have this experience in our pasts, but it is never too late to build up your family moving forward. Ask for God's blessing in your family and use these resources to work toward a peaceful, happy family.

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SMBC and Disposable Fathers

Family structure is constantly changing. We cannot afford to assume that different is better. Tampering with God's design will bring catastrophic results.
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World News and Trends- Violent children: the hidden connection

"An astoundingly high level of personal violence separates the United States from every other industrial nation," writes Michael Bellesiles.
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Child Abuse: What Kids Are Doing to Kids

Children are hurting each other but what can be done? See how God says we should handle ourselves.
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Time to Be a Father

Is your father "Superman"? Remembering your Father and how you and he can strengthen that relationship.
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In Brief... America's Greatest Problem

"America's Greatest Problem: Not Crime, Racism or Bad Schools-It's Illegitimacy" is a chapter title in a bold book offered by Larry Elder, titled The Ten Things You Can't Say in America.
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In Brief... Marriage Failure and Television-Any Connections?

As curious trends with marriages and TV increase, perhaps the answer to a lifelong marriage is getting rid of the foul content in TV.
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Day Care Debate: More Than Aggressive Babies

Debate rages over a government study that suggests day care causes aggressive behavior in children. Cries for using less day care are challenged with equal passion by defenders of its perceived value. Sadly, personal opinion and economics have obscured the...
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World News and Trends: AIDS safe-sex campaigns ineffective

"... HIV infections are disturbingly common among gay men of all races in their 20s, especially considering that they grew up knowing how AIDS spreads," says an Associated Press report on the recent eighth annual Retrovirus Conference in Chicago.
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A Child's Worth

That hat meant a lot to me, but what was I saying to the kid who crushed it?
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Money Problems

It's so easy to slide on the slippery slope of borrowing and credit card debt without really realizing it. When we wake up to a debt disaster, what can we do to take control of our finances?
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Lead Us Not Onto Temptation Island

A titillating television show pushes the bounds of accepted morality even further while presenting only the seamy-and steamy-side of the story.
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Youth Violence: Where Does the Blame Lie?

Violence has come to roost in the nation's youth. A biblical prophet envisioned a time when children would be our oppressors (Isaiah 3:12). Are we living in those days?
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For Believers: Reconcile or Remain Unmarried. Why?

To understand how God views the marriage covenant between believers, consider God's loving and merciful baptismal covenant with us.
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In Brief... News in the Race to Clone Humans

Addressing the weighty moral objections to cloning, Dr. Severino Antoniori of Rome declared that humans will be cloned in the very near future, "whether we like it or not."
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In Brief... News Trends Among Youth: Telephone Chatlines Trap Teens

The dangers of telephone chatlines seem overshadowed by internet chatrooms, but the danger is equally present.
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The Tiny Pill That Changed the World

Forty years ago few could have forseen how a medical innovation would so dramatically reshape soceity.
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This is the Way, Walk in It: One Moment in Time

Headlines about national and international issues are a daily fare, but every day, somewhere, events are occurring that affect some family for a lifetime. These events, whether for good or bad, take up the "headline space" in their family's personal...
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AIDS: How a Killer Plague Can Be Stopped

The AIDS epidemic, increasingly compared to the dreaded black death of the 1300s, has taken millions of lives and promises to take millions more. Yet, tragically, we ignore the only real solution to this deadly plague.
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World News and Trends: Marriage, traditional roles in trouble

A recent report from The Hague does nothing to support the sanctity of marriage.
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World News and Trends: Divorce's affects felt well into adulthood

Each year more than a million children under age 18 are impacted by new divorces in the United States.
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