POPE LEO XIV AFFIRMS FAMILY IS BASED ON UNION BETWEEN A MAN AND WOMAN, UNBORN HAS INHERENT DIGNITY. Pope Leo XIV affirmed Friday that the family is founded on the “stable union between a man and a woman,” and that the unborn and elderly enjoy dignity as God’s creatures, articulating clear Catholic teaching on marriage and abortion at the start of his pontificate. Read more here.
U.S. BISHOPS’ UPDATED DOCUMENT ON PORNOGRAPHY ADDRESSES LONELINESS EPIDEMIC, DEEPFAKES. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has released a new 10th anniversary preface to a major document on the Church’s response to pornography, offering fresh recommendations for parents, clergy, educators and civil leaders on combatting porn’s influence in an age of increased social isolation and the rise of artificial intelligence. Read more here.
SCHOOL CELEBRATES ‘SPECIAL PEOPLE DAY’ INSTEAD OF MOTHER’S DAY. School Board member Virginia Jeup confirmed in a social media post that Ferry Elementary School, in Michigan, had replaced both Mother’s Day and Father’s Day with a more generic celebration: ‘‘Special People Day.’’ Read more here.
AFRICANS ADOPT FEMINIST TREATY, BUT PUSH BACK AGAINST FEMINIST EXTREMES. The African Union has adopted a feminist international treaty billed as an effort to combat violence against women, though the treaty is expected to strengthen the hand of EU bureaucrats and EU-funded mechanisms on the African continent. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS BLOCK ANOTHER EFFORT TO PROTECT MINORS FROM SEX TRAFFICKING. California Democrats have yet again blocked efforts to strengthen protections from underage sex trafficking, this time a bill to make it a felony to purchase 16- or 17-year-olds for sex. Read more here.
2.1 KIDS PER WOMAN MIGHT NOT BE ENOUGH FOR POPULATION SURVIVAL, NEW RESEARCH REVEALS. Recent research published in the journal PLOS One found that human populations need at least 2.7 children per woman to reliably avoid long-term extinction, higher than the previously believed 2.1 replacement level. Read more here.
NO INCOME TAX FOR WOMEN WITH TWO CHILDREN IN HUNGARY. Under the new law mothers of two under the age of 40 will get lifetime income tax exemption from next year, with the benefits gradually expanded to all mothers of at least two by 2029. Read more here.
HOUSE PASSES MELANIA TRUMP-BACKED REVENGE PORN, DEEP FAKE BILL: TAKE IT DOWN ACT. The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill backed by first lady Melania Trump that cracks down on the posting of explicit images, including “deep fake” nudes generated of people by artificial intelligence, without consent. Read more here.
WSJ: META’S AI CHATBOTS ENGAGED IN EXPLICIT SEXUAL ROLEPLAY WITH MINORS. A Wall Street Journal investigation has revealed that Meta’s AI chatbots on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in “romantic role-play” with users that can turn sexually explicit, even with accounts belonging to minors as young as 13. Read more here.
GOP GOVERNOR VETOES BILL MEANT TO SHIELD KIDS FROM ‘SEXUALLY EXPLICIT’ BOOKS AT SCHOOL. North Dakota Republican Governor Kelly Armstrong vetoed a bill this week that would have required school districts to keep books determined to be “sexually explicit” out of the reach of students, saying that the bill was a “misguided” attempt to “legislate morality.” Read more here.
SCIENTISTS WANT TO GROW HUMAN BODIES WITHOUT BRAINS TO HARVEST THEIR ORGANS. A recent article by three Stanford researchers, in the MIT Technology Review, explored commodifying human life by growing human bodies without brains or consciousness in order to harvest their organs for transplant, and they say it could be closer to becoming reality than people think. Read more here.
WASHINGTON NEWBORNS TESTING POSITIVE FOR DRUGS AT ALARMING RATES. Investigations by Seattle KING 5 television uncovered a startling trend: newborn babies in Washington are testing positive for drugs at rates double the national average, suffering from neonatal abstinence syndrome and a withdrawal condition caused by drug exposure in utero. Read more here.
HOW COUNTRY STAR JOHN RICH TEAMED UP WITH KRISTI NOEM TO COMBAT CHILD SEXTORTION. Singer John Rich is working to raise awareness about the dangers of child sexual extortion, or “sextortion” – a form of harassment wherein an offender coerces or tricks a minor into sending them sexually explicit images or videos, and then threatens to release the content unless the child furnishes more sexual content or some form of payment. Read more here.
SUNSHINE STATE SHOWS IT’S SERIOUS ABOUT CHILD SAFETY. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says the social media platform Snapchat knowingly and willingly broke a state statute protecting the safety and security of children. Read more here.
TRUMP ADMIN FLOATS PLANS TO INCREASE FERTILITY RATES, INCLUDING $5,000 ‘BABY BONUS’ AS BIRTHS DROP TO RECORD LOWS. The Trump administration has been looking into ways to increase the number of marriages happening in the U.S. as well as increasing the fertility rate as the U.S. has been facing a drop in births for several years. Read more here.
MORE WOMEN OVER 40 HAVING BABIES THAN TEENS FOR FIRST TIME IN U.S.: CDC DATA. For the first time in U.S. history, more women over the age of 40 are having kids compared to teen moms, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read more here.
THIS NONPROFIT GOT $22 MILLION IN GOVERNMENT GRANTS TO TEACH KIDS ABOUT SEX TOYS. For nearly a decade, the U.S. government gave $22 million to The Center for Innovative Public Health Research for educating minors about sex toys and keeping it secret from their parents. Read more here.
JUDGE REJECTS CALIFORNIA’S ATTEMPT TO DISMISS LAWSUIT AGAINST ANTI-PARENT TRANSGENDER POLICIES. U.S. District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez denied a motion to dismiss a case filed by California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction and the members of the California State Board of Education in Mirabelli v. Olson, the Thomas More Society lawsuit challenging “Parental Exclusion Policies.” Read more here.
REPUBLICAN BILL WOULD SAVE THOUSANDS FOR PARENTS WHO STAY AT HOME WITH KIDS. West Virginia Congressman Riley Moore and Utah Senator Mike Lee have introduced legislation ensuring that new moms are not “penalized” under federal law for deciding to leave the workforce and stay home with their child. Read more here.
HUNGARY GRANTS HISTORIC TAX EXEMPTIONS FOR MOTHERS WITH TWO OR MORE CHILDREN. Hungary has introduced a sweeping tax reform aimed at reversing its declining birthrate by granting lifelong income tax exemptions to mothers with two or more children, a move Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has called the “largest tax cut in Europe and the entire Western world.” Read more here.
TWO MILLION USER INTERNATIONAL PAEDOPHILE CHILD PORN RING BUSTED BY EUROPOL. A massive international pedophile network spanning across over 30 countries was shut down, and dozens of arrests were made relating to child pornography, the Europol police agency announced. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM GIVES TAMPONS TO THIRD-GRADE BOYS. California public schools are legally required to stock restrooms for children in grades 3-12 with an adequate supply of menstrual products in all women’s restrooms, all-gender restrooms and in at least one men’s restroom. Read more here.
NEW HOUSING AT FRANCISCAN U. OFFERS PLACE FOR PREGNANT AND PARENTING STUDENTS. Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio recently opened a new maternity house near campus to provide a safe, supportive environment for students who are expectant mothers. Read more here.
ADOPTIONS HAVE INCREASED 3 PERCENT, MORE CHILDREN WILL BE ADOPTED THANKS TO ABORTION BANS. A new study has revealed that domestic adoptions of American children increased by over 3 percent in the U.S. between 2019 and 2022, which may be due in part to increased restrictions on international adoptions put in place by countries like China and Ukraine. Read more here.
FEMINISTS OUTRAGED AT UN LOSS, PRESENCE OF PRO-LIFE GROUPS AT CSW. The Commission on the Status of Women, one of the UN’s largest annual feminist gatherings, has seen a dramatic mood shift, largely because of the change in U.S. leadership. The political declaration left out references to sexual and reproductive health, reproductive rights, and sexuality education. Read more here.
PARENTING KEEPS THE BRAIN YOUNG. A new study reveals that parenting, especially having multiple children, enhances brain connectivity, particularly in the areas associated with cognitive decline, and both mothers and fathers experienced the benefits, ruling out pregnancy as a possible cause for these brain-boosting benefits. Read more here.
SOUTH KOREA BIRTHRATE RISES FOR FIRST TIME IN 9 YEARS, MARRIAGES SURGE. South Korea has rolled out various measures to encourage young people to get married and have children, after now impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol declared a “national demographic crisis” and a plan to create a new ministry devoted to tackling low birth rates. Read more here.
MARYLAND DEBATES CONTROVERSIAL CONDOM VENDING MACHINES IN SCHOOLS INITIATIVE. Just a couple days after advancing a bill that would ban parents from opting their kindergartners out of classes on sexuality and gender-bending, the Maryland House of Representatives is now looking to provide condoms in all school vending machines including preschool and elementary schools at taxpayer expense. Read more here.
WISCONSIN GOVERNOR PROPOSES CHANGING ‘MOTHER’ TO ‘PARENT WHO GAVE BIRTH’ IN BUDGET PLAN. Democrat Gov. Tony Evers gave the state legislature budget recommendations that replace “wife” and “husband” with “spouse,” “father” with “parent,” and, most notably, “mother” with “inseminated person” and “parent who gave birth to the child.” Read more here.
EU ‘BANS THE WORD MAN’ IN INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE GUIDE. Politicians, officials and translators have been warned not to use words such as “tradesman” and “man-made” because they are not inclusive, in official guidance from the European Commission, the EU’s executive body. The new version of the guide also takes aim at the phrase “man in the street,” saying “the average person” should be used instead. Read more here.
NEW OSCE PA REPORT RELEASED ON DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE, A MEGA TREND RESHAPING SOCIETY. A new report by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly’s Special Representative on Demographic Change and Security, Gudrun Kugler, highlights the profound impact of demographic shifts on security and stability across the OSCE region, and possible remedies, in a 22-page report. Read more here.
MARYLAND LAWMAKER SLAMS BILL TO ALLOW CONDOMS IN SCHOOLS. Maryland State Delegate Kathy Szeliga (R) criticized a bill passed by the state’s House of Delegates that would repeal a ban on condoms being sold in vending machines at schools, describing it as “oversexualization” of children. Read more here.
NEW REPORT RANKS STATES ON FAMILY STRENGTH, HIGHLIGHTING ITS ROLE IN REDUCING SOCIETAL ISSUES. The Family Structure Index and the Hope and a Future Report — published by the Center for Christian Virtue, a public policy group based in Ohio — ranked Utah, Idaho and Nebraska in the top three, for percentage of adults who are married, have children and raise them together through their children’s high school years. Read more here.
COLLEGES CELEBRATE VALENTINE’S WITH ‘ETHICAL PORN,’ ABORTION ‘PARTY’ AND ‘GENITAL DIVERSITY GALLERY.’ Students at American universities celebrated Valentine’s Day week with some bizarre events, most notably a “Medication Abortion Launch Party” at Northwestern University, a “kink 101 presentation” and “ethical porn” at Ohio State University, along with “Healthy Hookups” at the University of Michigan. Read more here.
‘PRO-PEDOPHILE’ ACTIVIST GROUP CELEBRATES AS GERMANY DECRIMINALIZES CHILD PORN POSSESSION. A man convicted of the brutal murder of a 14-year-old girl may have his sentence reduced as a result of the German federal government’s decision to downgrade the criminal severity of child pornography possession. Read more here.
WASHINGTON DEMOCRAT LEADER: PARENTS DON’T HAVE THE RIGHT TO HAVE NOTICE, CONSENT OVER CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTHCARE AFTER AGE 13. In a recent interview, Washington State Senate Majority Leader Jaime Pederson (D-Seattle) told Fox News that “Kids over 13 have the right to make their own decisions about their mental healthcare. Parents don’t have the right to have notice, they don’t have a right to have consent about that.” Read more here.
CANADA’S ONLY PRO-LIFE FEDERAL PARTY APPOINTS NEW DEPUTY LEADER. Canada’s only fully pro-life federal political party, the Christian Heritage Party, appointed a new national deputy leader that the party says will help bring “family and freedom” to Canadians before the next federal election. Read more here.
‘PREGNANT MAN’ VISITS REGINA PUBLIC SCHOOL. A “pregnant man’s” classroom visit at École W.S. Hawrylak School has left some parents and Regina Public Schools employees upset about the lack of parental notification and consent. Read more here.
INDIANA DISTRICT APPROVES PORNOGRAPHIC BOOK IN CLASS, BANS REQUIREMENT FOR PARENTAL CONSENT. Indiana lawmakers want to pass a bill banning sexually explicit material in school classrooms after another district, the Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation, approved a pornographic book in the face of parents’ objections. Read more here.
PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVOCATE SOUNDS THE ALARM ON THE STATE OF AMERICAN EDUCATION. More than 1,100 school districts in America have parental exclusion policies, and they treat families as enemies, according to Nicki Neily, the president and founder of Parents Defending Education. Read more here.
ASU PROFESSORS FAIL TO CANCEL CHRISTIAN SPEAKER’S ‘DANGEROUS’ GUEST TALK TITLED ‘FAMILY UNDER ATTACK.’ Faculty and students at Arizona State University attempted to cancel Christian attorney Mary Hasson’s speech on efforts to dismantle the family and undermine parents, but she persisted in delivering her talk on “The Family Under Attack.” Read more here.
AS CHINA’S POPULATION DROPS FOR THIRD YEAR, OFFICIALS HEAVILY PRESSURE COUPLES TO HAVE CHILDREN. The population rate in China has fallen for the third year in a row, and the Chinese Communist Party government officials are still resorting to coercive tactics related to reproduction, but after decades of insisting upon a One Child Policy, officials are now invasively pressuring women to have more children. Read more here.
PSYCHOLOGIST WHO COUNSELED MINORS ON GENDER AND SEXUALITY CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. A Canadian “kink-allied” psychologist who worked with vulnerable youth in Calgary is facing child pornography charges following his arrest on January 30 by the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams’ internet child exploitation unit. Read more here.
ADF URGES FEDERAL GOVT TO ENSURE HIPAA PROTECTS ALL PATIENTS. Alliance Defending Freedom submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services requesting that it withdraw a Biden administration proposed rule change to federal health privacy laws that exacerbates the problems caused by a 2024 Biden administration rule favoring “gender transitions” and abortions. Read more here.
NEW ZEALAND GRANTS ‘PERSONHOOD’ TO A MOUNTAIN… BUT NOT TO PRENATAL HUMAN BEINGS. The New Zealand Parliament has granted personhood to a mountain, river and a piece of land, but it will not protect unborn human beings. Read more here.
SENATE COMMITTEE APPROVES PRO-LIFE CONGRESSWOMAN ELISE STEFANIK AS UN AMBASSADOR. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee advanced Congresswoman Elise Stefanik’s nomination to become the next U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. This decision moves her nomination to the full Senate for final confirmation. Read more here.
AGE VERIFICATION EFFORTS IN UK ARE UNDERWAY TO BLOCK PORNOGRAPHY ACCESS FOR MINORS. The United Kingdom has been attempting to implement age verification for sites where pornography can be accessed for years, and after a series of false starts, the BBC reported that the process is finally underway. Read more here.
U.S. REJOINS THE GENEVA CONSENSUS DECLARATION. The Institute for Women’s Health announced that President Donald J. Trump fulfilled his promise to rejoin the Geneva Consensus Declaration (GCD), a first-of-its-kind global coalition of nations dedicated to improving women’s health, strengthening families, affirming that abortion is not an international human right, and upholding the sovereign right of nations to govern free from ideological colonialism. Read more here.
GOP LAWMAKERS INTRODUCE BILL TO PROTECT PARENTAL RIGHTS. Sens. Tim Scott and James Lankford, along with Rep. Virginia Foxx, the Families’ Rights and Responsibilities Act, which affirms that parents have the fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, and health care of their children. Read more here.
CANADIAN PASTOR CONVICTED FOR PROTESTING ‘DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR’ EVENTS FILES APPEAL. Canadian pastor Derek Reimer is appealing the one-year house arrest sentence he received for protesting a “drag queen story hour” event marketed to children at a public library in 2023, saying he will not be “bullied into silence by a perverted agenda.” Read more here.
META VICTORY: SOCIAL MEDIA GIANT RESTORES PRO-LIFE ACCOUNTS JUST DAYS AFTER CONTACT WITH ADF ATTORNEYS. Meta has restored wrongfully suspended Facebook and Instagram accounts for pro-life news site LifeNews, LifeNews CEO and editor Steven Ertelt, and potential adoptive mom Abby Covington, just days after Alliance Defending Freedom called on the social media giant to reverse its deeply flawed decisions to ban the accounts for weaponizing its standards against “human exploitation” and “child sexual exploitation.” Read more here.
CHINA LOSES POPULATION FOR THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR. China’s National Bureau of Statistics on Friday reported the population declined for the third straight year in 2024, even though there was a small and surprising increase in the number of births for the first time in seven years. Read more here.
PEDOPHILES COULD SEE DEATH PENALTY UNDER NEW HOUSE GOP BILL: ‘TAKEN OFF THE STREETS PERMANENTLY.’ Two bills sponsored by U.S. Rep. Anna Luna would require sentences of death or at least life imprisonment for those charged with a wide range of crimes related to children. Read more here.
U.S. SUPREME COURT DIVIDED ON TEXAS AGE-GATING PORN ACCESS. Supreme Court Justices on Wednesday were divided over a challenge to a Texas law that requires users to undergo an invasive age verification process before accessing pornography sites, specifically on the standard of scrutiny that should be applied. Read more here.
OHIO GOVERNOR SIGNS BILL TO PROTECT PARENTAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s signing of HB 8 protects parental rights in education, recognizing parents’ fundamental right to make decisions about the upbringing, education, and care of their children. Read more here.
PORNHUB TO BLOCK ACCESS IN 13 STATES AS AGE-VERIFICATION LAWS SPREAD. The pornography website Pornhub soon will be inaccessible in 13 states after lawmakers passed a flurry of age verification restrictions for social media and other internet sites displaying adult content. Read more here.
FORT WORTH MUSEUM ACCUSED OF SUPPORTING CHILD PORN. The Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas is facing accusations of promoting child pornography in a controversial exhibit titled, “Diaries of Home,” an art collection depicting children in sexualized poses. Read more here.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OFFERS COURSES ON HOW TO NAVIGATE THE WORLD OF PROSTITUTION AND ‘EROTIC DANCE.’ Princeton University’s Gender and Sexuality Studies program is offering classes on how to navigate the worlds of “sex work,” “erotic dance,” “queer spaces” and “pornography.” Read more here.
ADF LAUNCHES NEW CENTER FOR FREE SPEECH THAT WILL DEFEND PRO-LIFE CHRISTIANS. Responding to the rising threat of global censorship, Alliance Defending Freedom is launching a new litigation team, the Center for Free Speech, in an effort to defend every person’s right to speak freely and hold the government and powerful corporations accountable when they unlawfully censor or punish speech. Read more here.
TOKYO TO MAKE DAY CARE FREE TO BOOST BIRTH RATE. Tokyo plans to make day care free for all preschool children the city’s governor has announced as part of efforts to boost the low birth rate. The move aims to reduce the financial burden on families by expanding a policy of free day care for second-born and subsequent children to first-borns as well. Read more here.
REPORT: NEW YORK POPULATION COULD SHRINK BY MILLIONS IN COMING YEARS. A study by Cornell University’s Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy’s Program on Applied Demographics projects that New York faces a significant population decline due to low fertility rates and aging that has not been offset by new arrivals. Read more here.
CORNELL POLE DANCING CLUB HOSTS TRAININGS FOR ‘TRANS’ AND ‘PLUS-SIZE’ STUDENTS. A pole dancing club at Cornell University funded partially by student fees is working to break barriers and address what its leaders describe as misconceptions and stereotypes about the activity. To that end, the Cornell student group called the Pole Posse recently hosted workshops for trans, non-binary and plus-size dancers. Read more here.
CHINA CALLS ON UNIVERSITIES TO PROVIDE ‘LOVE EDUCATION.’ China is urging colleges and universities to provide “love education” to emphasize positive views on marriage, love, fertility and family, in a bid to boost the country’s flagging birth rate. Read more here.
REPORT SHOWS WHICH FORTUNE 100 COMPANIES HAVE PRO-FAMILY POLICIES… AND WHICH DON’T. A new investigative report from Ethics and Public Policy Center scholars Nathanael Blake and Alexandra DeSanctis demonstrates that Fortune 100 companies are incentivizing abortion for employees by paying for them. Read more here.
BELGIAN SEX WORKERS NOW HAVE ACCESS TO CONTRACTS, BENEFITS AND PENSIONS. Many sex workers in Belgium will now be treated like any other worker in the country, with access to employment contracts, maternity leave, health benefits, pensions and more. Read more here.
MICHIGAN LAWMAKERS ON ‘ZOMBIE BILL’ KILLING SPREE, SEEK TO DECRIMINALIZE ADULTERY AND SODOMY. Michigan lawmakers heard testimony to repeal laws criminalizing adultery and same-sex sexual conduct in committee meetings, with supporters for the changes saying the current laws are “zombies” from the 1930s and need to be updated. Read more here.
VIETNAM, WITH ONE OF THE HIGHEST ABORTION RATES IN THE WORLD, LEADS UN INITIATIVE ON PREMATURE BIRTHS. Vietnam spearheaded a United Nations initiative this week on the health care needs of infants born prematurely. Read more here.
U.S. GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL GRILLED ON MIGRANT KIDS SENT TO STRIP CLUBS, TRAFFICKED. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra was pressed by lawmakers about the agency’s sponsor-vetting process as a report claims that the Biden administration settled unaccompanied minor children at a Florida strip club where a woman posing as an “aunt” pimped out children. Read more here.
ARIZONA MANDATES LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR CHILD SEX TRAFFICKERS. Arizona voters recently approved a ballot measure that will mandate life imprisonment for anyone convicted of child sex trafficking in the state, without the possibility of parole. Read more here.
RAPE AND SUICIDE RATES INCREASE WITH RELIGIOUS ‘NONES,’ GROUNDBREAKING RESEARCH SHOWS. Sociologist Philip Truscott’s study “Rape, Suicide, and the Rise of Religious Nones” showed a clear correlation between increases in the rate of Americans identifying as religious “nones” and rape and suicide rates. Read more here.
BRITISH CHILDREN AMONG THOUSANDS BEING INVESTIGATED FOR ‘HATE INCIDENTS.’ British police forces are treating run-of-the-mill classroom jibes – such as children calling each other names – as “non-crime hate incidents,” a freedom of information request has discovered. Read more here.
NOVA SCOTIA POLICY FORCES DOCTORS TO OFFER ABORTION, EUTHANASIA, ‘GENDER-TRANSITION’ SURGERY REFERRALS. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia is forcing doctors to refer their patients for abortions, euthanasia, and “gender-transitioning” surgeries, thereby trampling on freedom-of-conscience rights. Read more here.
KIDS DOLL PROMOTING MOVIE INADVERTENTLY DIRECTS BUYERS TO PORN SITE. Multinational toy company Mattel has issued an apology after it was discovered that the packaging for its “Wicked” themed toys directed customers to an explicit pornography site, and major retailers are removing it from their shelves. Read more here.
WOMEN STOCKPILE ABORTION PILLS, MEN SCHEDULE VASECTOMIES AFTER ELECTION. On the heels of a Trump victory, abortion organizations are reporting higher numbers of appointments and requests, and Aid Access, which mails abortion pills around the country, said it received 10,000 requests in the 24 hours after the election — far greater than the roughly 600 requests the organization usually receives. Read more here.
DONALD TRUMP SELECTS PRO-LIFE CONGRESSWOMAN ELISE STEFANIK AS UN AMBASSADOR. Trump stated, “I am honored to nominate Chairwoman Elise Stefanik to serve in my Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Elise is an incredibly strong, tough, and smart America First fighter.” Read more here.
NUMBER OF BABIES BORN TO BRITISH MOTHERS FALLS BY 25 PERCENT OVER 15 YEARS. The Office for National Statistics revealed that the number of babies born to British mothers has fallen to a record low, collapsing by 25 percent, from 538,000 to 403,000. Read more here.
ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE TO CREATE FAKE ONLINE PROFILES TO TRACK CANADIAN ‘EXTREMISTS.’ Canada’s national police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is planning to create fake online accounts to target Canadian ideological “extremists,” which could include pro-family, pro-life and pro-freedom content. Read more here.
FLORIDA REMOVED OVER 4,500 LGBT, SEXUALLY EXPLICIT BOOKS FROM SCHOOLS LAST YEAR: REPORT. More than 4,500 total books (and 4,231 individual titles) were removed from Florida public schools in the 2023-24 school year, sharply up from 1,406 the year before. That accounts for almost half of the 10,000 total removals nationwide. Read more here.
CHINA’S LATEST CRY FOR MORE BABIES MAY FALL ON DEAF EARS. “Having three children is the best” says a vibrant neon pink sign at a wedding expo in the southern Chinese city of Changsha. The marriage-themed festival comes at a time when China is looking to spur weddings and births to counter a shrinking population. Read more here.
FRENCH FAMILIES SUE TIKTOK OVER HARMFUL CONTENT. Seven French families have filed a lawsuit against social media giant TikTok, accusing the platform of exposing their adolescent children to harmful content that led to two of them taking their own lives at 15, their lawyer said. Read more here.
SASKATCHEWAN RE-ELECTS CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT PLEDGING MORE PRO-FAMILY POLICIES. The Saskatchewan Party, which has implemented a number of pro-family policies in recent months, has won re-election, forming a majority government for the fifth consecutive time. Read more here.
FERTILITY RATE IN ENGLAND AND WALES FALLS TO LOWEST LEVEL SINCE RECORDS BEGAN. The average total fertility rate (TFR) – the average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime – was 1.44 children per woman in 2023 in the UK, the lowest value since 1938. Read more here.
PARENTS OUTRAGED AS CHURCH EXPOSES CHILDREN TO PORN ON BIG SCREEN AT HARVEST SINGSONG. Parents in East Yorkshire, England are outraged after children were exposed to porn during a harvest singsong at the United Reformed Church that was part of the church’s 150th-anniversary celebrations. Read more here.
IN CITIES WHERE SINGLE PARENTING IS THE NORM, CHILD POVERTY AND VIOLENT CRIME ARE HIGH. In Ohio cities where single motherhood is the norm rather than the exception, rates of child poverty are higher, including Springfield, where one-third of all children lived in families below the official poverty level during the 2018-2022 time period. Read more here.
CBS CANCELS ‘BLUE BLOODS’ OVER FAMILY VALUES. Blue Bloods, one of the most popular television shows in the U.S., has been canceled after 14 seasons, and many believe it’s because of the program’s pro-family and pro-faith message. Read more here.
NEW STUDY CONFIRMS HARMFUL EFFECTS OF DIVORCE ON CHILDREN. A new study confirms a strong correlation between parental divorce and a wide range of negative child outcomes. The authors from Austria, Germany and the UK published their work in the Journal of Public Economics. Read more here.
CANADA’S BIRTH RATE PLUNGES TO RECORD LOW OF 1.26 CHILDREN PER WOMAN. According to Statistics Canada’s latest births and stillbirths’ data, in 2023 10 of the 13 provinces and territories recorded a new record low birth rate. Characterizing the new data, Statistics Canada announced that the country has “joined the group of ‘lowest-low’ fertility countries, including South Korea, Spain, Italy, and Japan, with 1.3 children per woman or less.” Read more here.
‘ABOLISH THE FAMILY’: UPENN WRITING COURSE TOUTS FEMINIST SLOGAN. The class description also states that “when we examine the narrative of the ideal family, it is often portrayed as a site of unconditional love and care. However, families can also be sites of pain, trauma, and uneven distributions of labor.” Read more here.
RUSSIA HOLDS FIRM ON FAMILY AT SUMMIT OF THE FUTURE, OUTCOME UNCERTAIN. In an unprecedented move during negotiations prior to the Summit of the Future, at the United Nations General Assembly, Russian Federation delegates are insisting that family is important to social and economic development. Read more here.
GREEKS PRESENT TAX BREAKS AND CASH BENEFITS TO BOOST BIRTH RATE. The Greek government has introduced new policies to make it more affordable to have children and to boost the country’s lagging birth rates, offering tax breaks for new parents, vouchers to pay for childcare, pension increases, social contribution reductions and a raised minimum wage. Read more here.
GEN Z AND MILLENNIALS SAY FINANCES ARE WHY THEY WON’T HAVE CHILDREN. A study by MassMutual found that nearly 1 in 4 childless millennials and members of Generation Z said they don’t have children now, and they don’t plan on having them in the future. Read more here.
COMMON APP ‘LEGAL SEX’ QUESTION CREATES ‘CONFUSION’ FOR WOMEN’S COLLEGE. Common App, which more than 1,000 higher education institutions use for admissions according to its website, is now offering the option to choose “X for another legal sex” on the application for the 2023-24 school year, and it is causing confusion. Read more here.
FREQUENT PORN USE IS LINKED TO NEGATIVE MENTAL HEALTH AMONG GEN-Z AND MILLENNIALS. A new Institute for Family Studies/YouGov survey of 2,000 adults under age 40 found that pornography has become a daily part of life for many young adults, and about 1-in-10 Gen Z (ages 18-27) and younger Millennials (ages 28 to 39) report watching porn online at least once a day. This is linked to an increased occurrence of negative mental health outcomes among young adults. Read more here.
BIRTH RATE COLLAPSE: CHINA TURNING KINDERGARTENS INTO NURSING HOMES. Facing a severely aging society in the coming decade, the Chinese government newspaper Global Times reported the nation is refurbishing some kindergarten facilities into nursing homes because of the nation’s longtime one-child policy, abortion and a dramatic decline in its birth rate. Read more here.
NEW MEXICO AG LABELS SNAPCHAT ‘BREEDING GROUND’ FOR CHILD PREDATORS IN NEW LAWSUIT. New Mexico attorney general Raúl Torrez is suing Snapchat’s parent company for sharing child sexual abuse material on the social media platform and facilitating sextortion, in which adults coerce minors into sharing explicit images to extort financial or sexual favors from the underage victims. Read more here.
MISSOURI PARENTS KEEP FIGHTING TO GET SEXUALLY EXPLICIT BOOKS OUT OF HOSTILE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The battle continues in a Missouri school district to keep scores of sexually explicit books from children despite the lack of cooperation from state and local officials. Read more here.
ASU HOSTS EVENT TOUTING POLYAMORY WITH ‘LIVED EXPERIENCE EXPERTS.’ Arizona State University recently hosted a group discussion event on polyamory as part of its Project Humanities initiative, featuring people with experience in the practice of having multiple romantic or sexual partners. Read more here.
U.S., EU DEMAND EXCEPTIONS TO CRIMINALIZATION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY IN UN TREATY. Western nations led by the United States and the European Union (EU) are supporting exceptions to the criminalization of child pornography in a draft UN treaty “against cybercrime.” Read more here.
PROMINENT UK DOCTORS RESIGN FROM UNION AFTER IT REJECTED CASS REPORT REVEALING HARM OF ‘SEX CHANGE’ TREATMENTS FOR MINORS. Doctors with decades of experience have resigned from the British Medical Association due to the union’s opposition to the landmark Cass Report, which revealed the harmful impact of controversial treatments for minors. Read more here.
SEXUALLY GRAPHIC TEXTBOOK HIGHLIGHTING SEX WITH BLOW-UP DOLLS APPROVED IN CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS, RECORDS SHOW. The Glendale Unified School District has been using a sexually graphic textbook — which contains explicit references to group sex, drug use and sex with blow-up dolls — for nearly two years. Read more here.
COLORADO LIFTS ‘POLITICAL’ CLOTHING BAN AFTER RADIO HOST KICKED OUT OF CAPITOL GALLERY OVER PRO-LIFE SHIRT. The Colorado State Capitol has revoked a ban on political apparel in its legislative galleries nearly a year and a half after Denver radio host Jeff Hunt got kicked out of the Senate gallery for wearing a pro-life sweatshirt. Read more here.
NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA DISCARDS HUNDREDS OF GENDER, SEXUALITY BOOKS. New College of Florida has tossed hundreds of books on gender and sexuality into a dumpster outside the Jane Bancroft Cook Library because Gender Studies has been discontinued as an area of concentration. Read more here.
NEW UN CYBERCRIME TREATY OPENS DOOR TO PEDOPHILIA AND LEGALIZES CHILD SEXTING. The United Nations General Assembly will adopt a new international treaty against cybercrime that opens the door to depictions of pedophilia and legalizes some forms of child pornography long considered illegal. Read more here.
U.S. CENSUS BUREAU ANALYSIS REVEALS CITIES ARE INCREASINGLY INHOSPITABLE FOR FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN. A new analysis by the U.S. Census Bureau found that the number of young children in America’s largest cities is “rapidly shrinking” at an alarming rate, and several of America’s largest cities are on track to lose 50 percent of their age 0-4 population in the next 20 years. Read more here.
ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES CREATES NEW POSITION ON PROSTITUTE RIGHTS. The Secretary-General of the Organization of American States has announced the appointment of lesbian activist Gloria Careaga Pérez, a Mexican social psychologist and LGBT activist, to the newly created position of OAS Commissioner for the Rights of Sex Workers. Read more here.
THE PRO-FAMILY MOVEMENT IS WINNING IN EUROPE, WITH RECENT VICTORIES IN POLAND, THE UK AND ITALY. Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s attempt to decriminalize abortion during the first three months of pregnancy failed, and Italy’s constitutional court formally refused to recognize the so-called “non-binary” sexual identity, and then Bulgaria banned LGBT propaganda in schools. Read more here.
WHY FEWER AMERICANS ARE HAVING KIDS. Nearly 45 percent of women aged 15 to 49 were childless between 2017 and 2019, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, up from about 42 percent between 2015 and 2017. Read more here.
U.S. SENATE PASSES KIDS ONLINE SAFETY ACT DESPITE WARNINGS OF EXPANDED SURVEILLANCE, DATA COLLECTION. Two bills combined – the Kids Online Safety Act and the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act – have passed in the U.S. Senate by a 91-3 vote and will now be considered by the House of Representatives. Read more here.
FAMILY PRIDE PARADE TO BE HELD ON COPACABANA BEACH IN RIO DE JANEIRO. The first Family Pride Parade will take place on Saturday, Aug. 10, the day before Father’s Day in Brazil, on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, as an initiative of the National Network in Defense of Life and Family and aims to celebrate the sacredness of the family and human life. Read more here.
TEXAS SUES BIDEN ADMINISTRATION OVER RULE REMOVING PARENTAL CONSENT FOR MINOR CONTRACEPTIVE ACCESS. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and several others are suing the Biden Department of Health and Human Services over a change to Title X that eliminated parental consent requirements for minors accessing contraceptives. Read more here.
PARENTS PETITION DENVER SCHOOLS TO STOP ‘SEAL OF DIVERSITY’ PROGRAM. Denver East High School allows students to take classes such as Queer Literature and Gender Studies to earn a “Seal of Diversity” award, and the Colorado Parent Advocacy Network is calling for an investigation into the classes, lesson plans, books, articles and other materials used in the program. Read more here.
EXCLUSIVE POLL: AFRICAN AMERICANS WIDELY CRITICAL OF ‘GENDER NEUTRAL’ TERMS IN MEDICAL FIELD. A poll conducted by Ingram Market Research on behalf of Do No Harm, found that 93 percent of black adults were overwhelmingly critical of the term “birthing person,” which has recently been adopted by practitioners who believe men can become women, and thus have children. Read more here.
CATHOLIC BISHOPS URGE NIGERIA TO REJECT EU SEXUAL IMPERIALISM. “Catholic Bishops and Islamic leaders called on the government of Nigeria to amend or reject a binding European Union treaty that would extend beyond economic matters to human rights issues, sex education programs, gender ideology and abortion rights. Read more here.
PEW SURVEY ASKS WHY SO MANY U.S. ADULTS DON’T HAVE ANY CHILDREN. America’s fertility rate was lower in 2023 than it’s ever been, and a new analysis by Pew Research Center finds among U.S. adults who aren’t parents, the share who say they don’t expect to ever have kids has risen 10 percentage points between 2018 and 2023, to 47 percent. Read more here.
POLL: CANADIAN FAMILIES WANT GOVERNMENT TO LEAVE THEIR KIDS ALONE TOO. Overwhelming supermajorities of Canadian parents who have school-aged children believe school should provide them with advance notice of controversial topics, so that they can opt their children out of the discussion, according to a new poll. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS HAND PORN INDUSTRY HUGE VICTORY AFTER WATERING DOWN AGE VERIFICATION BILL. The California Senate Judiciary Committee proposed making ID verification optional for pornography websites in new amendments to the state’s age verification bill. Read more here.
SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE IF TEXAS CAN REQUIRE PORN SITES TO USE AGE VERIFICATION. The FreeSpeech Coalition sued Texas for its age verification law, and now the Supreme Court has accepted the state’s appeal of that legal challenge. Read more here.
BIDEN’S DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR RELEASES ‘INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE GUIDE.’ The 24-page guide instructs bureaucrats to use “inclusive language” to prevent and combat discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. The guide instructs individuals to avoid using gendered terms like “uncle” or “aunt” and to use “parent’s sibling” instead. Read more here.
STUDY: YOUNG MEN FROM ‘INTACT’ FAMILIES FARE BETTER IN LIFE. Young men from “non-intact” families without a father are more likely to end up in prison or jail than to graduate from college, according to the findings of a new study from the Institute for Family Studies, a Charlottesville, Virginia-based think tank dedicated to researching marriage, family life and the well-being of children. Read more here.
