Without abortion as an option, a woman is forced to carry an unwanted child through birth. Nine months of her life dictated by others—perhapsbecause the contraception she’d counted on failed. Pro-lifers might argue that the baby can be put up for adoption. More cruelty—because once a w...
How do you define 'single mom' vs ‘solo mom’? Arguments for those who receive child support and have an involved co-parent.
“I want to play for my mother.” She noticed the33 in his eyes as he answered her. She had no heart to 34and accepted William as her student. But at each music lesson, William appeared to be in a hurry and played35“My mother is waiting outside for me,” he would tell the tea...
I’ve tended to avoid new year’s resolutions because I fear setting myself up for more failure. But if we think of reviewing the year behind us and resolving for changes in the year ahead through a lens of grace, we might come to see ourselves less as achievers and more as receivers....
Today, kids would need therapy for flashbacks, a safe space and probably financial assistance from The Government for life. Epilogue: Come to think of it, I don’t really even know what the school secretary said to my mom or even what my mom said to me as I wrestled from the arms ...
This is happening to people who aren’t landlords, who perhaps have inherited a house from a deceased next of kin, gone away on vacation for a couple of weeks, a stint of active duty in the military, or to care for a sick relative. Such people likely don’t have a lot of money ...
So, there’s a broad tolerance for “weird.” Which as it happens has other advantages, like allowing the really creative, who rarely fit in well, to create.) BUT the operational thing is: China is a very very old culture, overlaid on others very very old cultures which were repressed...
Medicaid expansion was a calling card of Obamacare. After court battles, states were allowed to decide whether they would loosen income restrictions to offer extended Medicaid coverage to low-income individuals as described under the law. A total of 18 states decided against Medicaid expansion. ...
and the grand chords marched on just as they had when Luther sang them as he marched into Worms, as he defended the idea that we all have the right and responsibility to find God for ourselves, that salvation isn’t a commodity or a path to power, and that it is wrong for God to ...
Freedom of religion is not the goal for Republicans; their ultimate dream is to force their Christian White nationalism on all of us. While the population as a whole has grown less religious, with the majority choosing “None” when asked their religion, the Christian White nationalist part of...