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Where are the limits to self-definition? Seven years ago, a short video went viral that has stood the test of time like few others. It featured Joseph Backholm of the Family Policy Institute of Washington interviewing students at the University of Washington about gender bathroom [...]

It’s no mistake that the modern celebration of Mothers’ Day occurs in May – the month of Mary. She is a model of motherhood from whom all – men and women alike – take inspiration. We’ve often joked that it takes mere seconds to conceive [...]

Today, Sunday 14 May, is Mother’s Day but this coming, Tuesday 16 May, is International Boys' Day. What do these two days have in common? #1. Without mothers, we would not have any boys to celebrate. #2. The greatest defenders and promoters of boys are [...]

Leila Abdallah has been chosen as the 2021 Mother of the Year. The now mother of seven tragically lost three of her children when a drugged and drunk driver killed them on 1 February 2020. After I met Leila and her husband Danny, tears rolled down my face as I sat in the car reflecting on the tragedy.

Edited extract from her latest book expected to be published in late 2023. During a brief one-hour interstate flight I sat beside a young man (whom I shall call Ben) in his late twenties. He was married with a seven-month-old son. He’d recently started his [...]

How I lost the fight against the sexualisation of my kids and was forced out of the state education system in order to keep my kids safe. Firstly I wanted to say thanks to everyone who’s subscribed or reached out since I started this substack [...]

One of the biggest benefits of homeschooling is the healthy distance home education puts between politics, their peers, and our kids. We live in an era where the government is God, and its priesthood is post-modernist partisan activism. A time when parents are told to [...]

Disney’s obsession with woke sexuality has cost it a quarter of a billion dollars at the box office. Does Disney really believe that families enjoy LGBTQ+-affirmative lecturing in films? Growing up, there was nothing more magical to me than the opening credits of a Disney [...]

Even the CEO of Twitter and the second-richest person in the world knows it. In a Fox News interview with Tucker Carlson last week, Elon Musk said birth control and abortions endanger the future of human existence and the growth of civilisation. He was discussing [...]

A wife and mother shares her testimony and reminds the Western church of the immense value of Cultural Christianity. In recent years the Western world has witnessed a fast fade of what we might call ‘Cultural Christianity’. Less people are attending church, the Christian moral [...]

If you’re anything like me, sometimes the anticipation of meeting someone, or going on a dreamed-of holiday just doesn’t live up to expectations. The old ‘yes, this will be awesome!’ fizzles to meh... However, every once in a while, the expectations, or hopes actually pan [...]

Them Before Us is the name of a breakthrough book about the need for a global children’s rights movement written by Katy Faust and Stacy Manning. The team at Dads4Kids had the joy of helping organise Australia’s first Voice 4 Kids Summit in 2015. Katy [...]

I’ve never met Nigel Marsh (no relation) but he seems like a top bloke. He’s a committed husband and father of four, has worked in advertising agencies for over 30 years, is a published author and award-winning podcaster, and back in 2011 he delivered a brilliant [...]

The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) has now released a Consultation Paper for its current reference on “Religious Educational Institutions and Anti-Discrimination Laws”. The paper, while formally acknowledging the importance of religious freedom and parental rights, will be a serious disappointment to those involved in [...]

Editors’ Note: The following is a transcript of remarks originally given in Miami at the National Conservatism Conference in September 2022. In 1961 the Green Bay Packers squandered a fourth-quarter lead and lost the NFL championship. The following year the players gathered at training camp, demoralised but [...]

In this conversation, John Anderson travels to Portland, Oregon to interview Katy Faust and Stacy Manning, co-authors of Them Before Us (2021), a book that argues for a revolution in how we think about the family, and a re-focus on the needs of children above [...]

Christian parents in Wenzhou City, part of China’s Zhejiang Province, are being forced to align with Atheism. The mandate, a first of its kind, was issued to Kindergarten parents, who have been asked to sign a “Kindergarten Family Commitment Not to Believe in Religion.” ChinaAid [...]

“I wish I had been a better Dad and spent more time with my kids.” These were the words that many men spoke, often with tears, when Dr Bruce Robinson told them they didn’t have long to live. Dr Bruce Robinson is a respiratory specialist. [...]

K.I.S.S. (keep it simple, stupid…silly…sweetie)… your choice! I’m sure that you will have heard of this acronym. My friend Warwick Marsh shared another saying of similar ilk a while ago: ‘The main thing is the plain thing, and the plain thing is the main thing.’ [...]

Some time ago I was busy working in my own office when I heard my wife talking in the next office to a stranger. Being the inquisitive type, I opened my door to shake hands with Bill, who was inspecting the services in our office [...]