Call me a sucker for punishment, but this is a question that’s been on my mind since Social Democrat TD Holly Cairns raised this issue yesterday: The “ridiculous” lack of maternity leave for politicians is a major barrier to women entering public life, it has been claimed. Social Democrat TD Holly Cairns is pushing to […]
Women have achieved equal numbers in the workforce over the past 50 years but research shows that, collectively, they are far from contented. What is missing from our work culture? The answer, suggests Peruvian academic María Pia Chirinos in a paper delivered at a recent conference of the London-based Home Renaissance Foundation, is relationships based on […]
An English rugby star has called on the Government to incentivise marriage, as a new report shows cohabiting couples are four times more likely to separate, and that family instability is a leading cause for negative outcomes for children. Writing in The Telegraph England player Courtney Lawes said that in his view marriage provided stability to families, […]
Is it time we stop badmouthing fathers and instead step up to support them? _ _ _ _ _ _ A recent post on Imgur caught my eye for its startling glimpse into the true state of American families. Seeking to be a help to others, a young man posted a link to his father’s new YouTube […]
Our family were at a wedding a few months ago and a friend pointed out how loving and inclusive our children were with each other, and how they were so protective of their brother, Fiach. Although I brushed off the compliment it made me brim up with pride. She was right, my kids are fantastic […]
A disproportionate number of very strange stories about the Reproductive Revolution originate in the land of fruits and nuts, i.e. California. However, it would be unfair to ignore Florida, a state which does a lot of heavy lifting in this area. Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Dave Barry claims that although Florida has only 6% of the US population, […]
A couple of weeks ago we discussed different strategies that European countries are taking to increase their birth rates and thus their natural population growth. Most European countries have very low birth rates and are relying on migration to keep their populations from declining. Some countries have tried cash incentives or tax breaks for parents, others have […]
During Election 2020, we heard a lot about serious concerns regarding the State’s inability to pay pensions in the future, yet very few of those discussions noted how anti-family this country has become. On RTE’s Prime Time a couple paying €1700 rent a month and doing a 12-hour day including a long commute said they […]
There are very few people in life who have not, at some point or other, made a terrible mistake. When you take a vow of marriage, you pledge solemnly, either before God, or before the whole community, represented by the State, that you will bind your life to that of your spouse for eternity. For […]
One of the last acts of this government was to make further cuts to the tune of €20 million for services to people people living with disabilities. Parents have pointed that in the same week €20 million was given to the FAI who have been the subject of so much controversy over financial mismanagement of taxpayer funding. Greg Craig of the […]
The plan by The UN Population Fund to host a recent government conference on “sexual and reproductive health” in Kenya backfired as Kenyans fought back attempts to export Western sexual norms into Africa. The UN Nairobi Summit was greeted by pro-life street protests and accusations of neo-colonialism. The Kenyan legislature forbade UNFPA access to the […]
“We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!” These were the spirited words of Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg in her address last week to the United Nations. Miss Thunberg’s claim that we are “in the beginning […]