What Are Grown-Ups For?

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True Love Does Not Set You Free. It Does the Opposite.
The 1968 movie "Yours, Mine and Ours" is pronatalist (and pro-career, pro-community, pro-responsibility) hyperbole. It makes a point both fundamentally…
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Catholicism and partisanship don't really mix. Cardinal Timothy Dolan is one of the few prominent Catholics left who chooses the truth over…
In his two run-ins with the Trump administrations, Dolan’s position evinces the sort of nuance and capaciousness that makes him impossible for either…
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Women Are Actually Grown-Ups
Women need unique physical protections because we aren't men. We do *not* need unique mental protections because we aren't children. Unfortunately…
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Why "Lean In" Feminism Was a Total Failure
Because it takes no cognizance of what most women actually want, just for starters.
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Why Mainstream Feminism is Very Bad
Yes, most of today's antifeminism is vacuous, infantilizing, and based on a false conception of womanhood. Exactly like the feminism it opposes.
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Why Antifeminism Is Very Bad
Yes, today's mainstream feminism is amoral, myopic, ahistorical, incorrect, and ultimately against women's and society's best interests. So is today's…
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January 2025

When Parenting is Politicized
Without agreed-upon markers of adult maturity and the importance of reaching it, society devolves to the point where moms are arrested for letting…
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Girlboss? Tradwife? How about neither?
On the hollowness of (non)maternal identity and the necessity of female vocation.
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Why Modern Motherhood Needs Religion
Want more fairly typical women to couple up and have 2+ kids? Want to reverse the fertility crisis? Get to church. And bring a friend or three.
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Is There a Coherent Case for Parenthood that is Secular and Progressive?
In a recent book, "What Are Children For?" Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman come as close as to making such a case as anyone can. Their argument falls…
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In the new year, resolve to parent like Mufasa
If more parents would turn away from ‘gentle’ parenting, society would be better off
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December 2024

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