In the face of recent concerns regarding environmental legislation, articles like “Should We Be Having Kids In The Age Of Climate Change?” have gotten even more attention than ever before. But what is overpopulation and does it really have the direct correlation to environmental catastrophe that . . . [Continue Reading]
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NFP Uncensored: Engaged and charting
NFP Uncensored is a series of candid accounts of the way NFP informs every aspect of life. You can follow the posts by searching for “NFP Uncensored” here in the Living the Love blog (use the search bar on the righthand side of this page), or by searching #NFPUncensored on social media. Isn’t it . . . [Continue Reading]
Humanae Vitae Giving Day 2017: Enormous Success
$57,000. That’s the official gift count from Couple to Couple League’s second annual Humanae Vitae Giving Day. And that’s before the matching gift of $50,000. Thanks to generous gifts of all sizes, a grand total of $107,000 has been collected to directly support the mission of Humanae . . . [Continue Reading]
NFP Uncensored: Miscarriage
NFP Uncensored is a series of candid accounts of the way NFP informs every aspect of life. You can follow the posts by searching for “NFP Uncensored” here in the Living the Love blog (use the search bar on the right-hand side of this page), or by searching #NFPUncensored on social media. Note . . . [Continue Reading]
Fact check: Is breastfeeding advocacy harmful to women?
The question: Is breastfeeding advocacy harmful to women? They say: French feminist Elisabeth Badinter published The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women last year. In the book, Badinter accuses breastfeeding advocates of pressuring mothers to nurse, thereby sentencing . . . [Continue Reading]
Cracking contraception
Just over a year ago, Cracked.com published a humorous video called "If Birth Control Commercials Were Honest." Using wit and a fair amount of raw language, the clip deconstructs the ridiculous notion that contraception liberates women. Now a year later, the video is no less . . . [Continue Reading]
Embrace the cross
From the Family Foundations archives **** "Embrace the cross" is a phrase that will never find its way onto the cover of Cosmopolitan as a means of improving your sex life. And yet, I've found it is the one way that really works. Some couples are dissatisfied with their sexual intimacy; . . . [Continue Reading]
Cosmo gives fertility apps a chance
“This may sound too good to be true, but FAM is increasingly backed by legit research.” – Cosmopolitan You read that right, ladies and gentlemen. Cosmopolitan Magazine recently ran an article titled, “Do Birth-Control Apps Really Work?” in which it actually acknowledged the validity of decades of . . . [Continue Reading]
A reflection on National Watermelon Day
One of my favorite parts of teaching kindergarten was prepping the calendar each month and perusing “silly day” websites for fun holidays to share with the kids. There are entire indexes of these little-known, pseudo-official holidays, and they’re worth a look. Some of my favorites include Speak . . . [Continue Reading]
Asking all the wrong questions
Photo credit: Bayer via Associated Press Recently, the Washington Post released a heartbreaking article featuring an in-depth exploration of Bayer’s controversial, permanent contraceptive device Essure. It’s essentially a thin metal coil — about the length of a sewing needle — filled with fibers . . . [Continue Reading]
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