An even-handed look at Hanna Rosin’s new book: The End of Men, thanks to Barbara Kay.
Men don’t seem to write about this subject. Off hand I can think of Kay Hymowitz, Barbara Kay and Kathleen Parker who have taken on this topic. Not that men have to write about this topic, but it seems to me that whether conservative or liberal, men aren’t going to listen to women for solutions here.
Woah. Low birthrates are a problem that are not easily corrected, apparently:
Would two hours of free child care inspire you to go make yourself a baby? Knowing that Denmark has one of the lowest birthrates in the world, and realizing that this could potentially put them out of business, a cluster of kindergartens there made that offer to parents. They have promised to provide two hours’ free childcare in the form of a party for the school children one evening this week, so that the parents can go to bed and make more babies.
I will refrain from repeating commentary that has been made before about the effects of the Pill, separating sex from children and generally living in a society that is not friendly to children. Of course, the author of the piece touches on none of those.
I, and many others, signed this declaration in support of Stephen Woodworth’s Motion 312.
This has nothing to do with abortion. Just an interesting if tragic item from the former DDR, East Germany. I think it’s good to be reminded of these moments in our recent past. I have a big picture on my office wall of the barbed wire that preceded the Berlin Wall, and a small child looking up at a soldier, asking to be picked up, over that barbed wire.
This is a good read, especially as the school year starts. The author got pregnant at university. She concludes by saying she feels she’s failed every woman who gets pregnant and drops out.
I’d tell her to try. Just try. Even if you don’t think it’s going to work out, try it anyway.
On a different note, if you are pregnant in university and you need some of these supports the author mentions in her article, I’m very confident that using this site, friends of this site and other sources like Sisters for Life, we can get you what you need in any Canadian city. If you are currently in university, pregnant and feeling alone, please don’t hesitate to contact me through this site, Facebook and/or my work (a quick Google of my name brings contact info up).
A sad statement on all we will never know about love and relationships. The worst part to me is that there are hundreds, thousands of willing naysayers, ready to make fun of him for what he has written here. As I read, I could hear them already… But in the end, I think he has named the truth:
We are a generation of the dull, blank, listless, hopeless; a generation of youth without mirth, age without wisdom. Even our eros is pallid and nerveless.
Good question. The National Post is asking:
Whom do you look up to?
Who are today’s most influential people/thinkers … and why? Let us know in 75 words or fewer at [email protected], with responses published on Monday, Sept. 17.
Got me thinking. Who would I submit? I have friends and family I look up to. I have writers/columnists I look up to and/or appreciate. It’s a hopeful question. If someone jumps to mind, consider submitting your thoughts to them! (Remember that Brevity is Godliness in the world of journalism.)
More info here about defunding rallies in front of MPPs offices on October 13. There is much work to be done at the provincial level, since abortion is funded by provincial healthcare plans. I think defunding is an important step. One of the aggravating things about our opponents on this issue is that they call abortion both a personal choice and a medical procedure. It’s one or the other.
Sandra Fluke has been blessed with a quarter-million dollars of elite education, and, on the evidence of Wednesday night, is entirely incapable of making a coherent argument. She has enjoyed the leisurely decade-long varsity once reserved for the minor sons of Mitteleuropean grand dukes, and she has concluded that the most urgent need facing the Brokest Nation in History is for someone else to pay for the contraception of 30-year-old children. She says the choice facing America is whether to be “a country where we mean it when we talk about personal freedom, or one where that freedom doesn’t apply to our bodies and our voices” – and, even as the words fall leaden from her lips, she doesn’t seem to comprehend that Catholic institutions think their “voices” ought to have freedom, too, or that Obamacare seizes jurisdiction over “our bodies” and has 16,000 new IRS agents ready to fine us for not making arrangements for “our” pancreases and “our” bladders that meet the approval of the commissars. Sexual liberty, even as every other liberty withers, is all that matters: A middle-school girl is free to get an abortion without parental consent, but if she puts a lemonade stand on her lawn she’ll be fined. What a bleak and reductive concept of “personal freedom.”