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Husband Says He Can’t Afford His Wife as a Stay-At-Home Mom and His Reasoning Adds Up. Big Time.

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Photo Credit: Steven Nelms

Photo Credit: Steven Nelms

Steven Nelms has been married to wife, Gloriana — Glory for short — for three years. Together they have a two-year-old son named Ezra.

When Steven and Glory got married, Glory worked while Steven finished up school. Once their son was born, it didn’t seem financially possible for Glory to go back to work. Nelms explains to IJReview:

“With childcare costs it would’ve been a wash with her income at best. So we decided that she would stay home as long as it made sense.”

In an attempt to appreciate all of the work Glory does for the family — and put a numerical value on it — Nelms wrote a profound essay that he posted to We Are Glory.

“I’ve had this thought in my head for a while now. I’ve been thinking that I can’t afford for my wife to be a Stay-At-Home Mom. Now, I don’t at all mean to offend anyone with this post. I just have to say that for me personally, I can’t afford it… I mean that I quite literally cannot afford my wife to be staying at home. Here’s why…

My wife stays home and takes care of our son every single day. She changes his diapers, feeds him, plays with him, puts him down for his nap, and comforts him when he’s upset. And that’s just the bare minimum. A child can typically get that attention at a day-care. But on top of that, he is her only focus… Obviously, this is part of being a parent. You take care of your child and you raise your child. But let’s face it. In our day and age… there is a company ready and willing to do just about anything. So while, yes, my wife is my son’s mother and it is a natural result of being a parent to love and care for your own child, there is also a very quantifiable dollar amount that can be attributed to the services rendered. I am in no way trying to simplify, objectify, or devalue the priceless love of a mother for her child. But let’s be real. Pay day feels good for a reason. Because you’re seeing your hard work appreciated in a tangible way that lets you “treat yo self”. And this is exactly why I can’t afford my wife being a Stay-At-Home Mom. The national average weekly salary for a full-time nanny is $705. That’s $36,660 a year.

We make ends meet comfortably and are by no means scraping the bottom of the barrel… [but] the services rendered of caring for our child every single day of the year would absorb the majority of our income. Flat out, no question, game over, I cannot afford my wife to be a Stay-At-Home Mom. And that’s just the beginning of it.

(Read more from “Husband Says He Can’t Afford His Wife as a Stay-At-Home Mom and His Reasoning Adds Up. Big Time.” HERE)

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Watch: A Bride’s Father Was on His Death Bed, but This Daughter Was Determined to Give Him the Last Dance

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This is the heartbreaking moment a bride had her final dance with her father she wed in front of his hospital bed.

Dr. Lisa Pantoja, formerly Wilson, was so determined to spend her wedding day with her father, who had a rare form of cancer, she conducted her dream wedding next to his hospital bed.

Beautiful bride Lisa first kissed her husband Rob, before removing Dave Wilson’s oxygen mask to kiss her dad.

It was then that she took the hands of her resolute father and began one of the most emotional wedding day dances you will ever experience. (Read more about the daughter giving her father his last dance HERE)

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Elderly Man Finds Son After Discovering Hidden Letter

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An elderly Grand Rapids man has finally met his son.

The man had tried having kids all his life, but thought it was a life goal he never accomplished.

A letter was sent by the child’s mother more than 50 years ago that told him of his then 5-year-old son. That man is now 61-years-old.

It was a message believed to have been hidden by his wife for decades.

Tony Trapani, 81, said that after his wife passed away, he was cleaning out one of her old filing cabinets when he came across the letter. (Read more about the man who found his son after he finds a hidden letter HERE)

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Watch: Priceless Surprise Pregnancy Announcement

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Jessica was keeping a big secret from her husband, Michael; she was pregnant and hadn’t told him yet. She wanted to make the announcement special so she brought him to a photo booth to take some pictures. As they start smiling for the camera, she held up a tiny newborn hat that read, “baby”.

Now her video of the surprise has received over 10 million views on YouTube and has been shared by the Huffington Post, CNN, USA Today and many other news networks.

According to the expectant Minnesota couple, photo booths are their “thing.” Jessica said, “On our first date – at Disneyland! – we got our picture taken in a photo booth. When we got engaged, we popped into a photo booth. At our wedding, we had rented a photo booth for our guests to enjoy.” However, photo booths aren’t just for special occasions. Jessica said, “It’s become our tradition.” (Read more about the surprise pregnancy announcement HERE)

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Watch: Joe Miller Wins Crowd at the Alaska Family Action Debate

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Eagle River, Alaska. August 5, 2014 – Joe Miller demonstrated at the Alaska Family Action debate on Monday why he has strong grassroots support among conservatives in the state. Miller drew contrast with the other candidates on the issues of amnesty, life and same-sex marriage.

The debate moderator, Tom Minnery – President of Citizenlink, questioned Miller concerning his definition of amnesty. Miller stated that it includes giving the benefits of citizens—a pathway to citizenship–to those who entered our country illegally. He pointed out that Mead Treadwell supports a pathway to citizenship, and Dan Sullivan is backed by big amnesty proponents including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Senators John McCain and Susan Collins. Sullivan did not refute that amnesty money is behind his campaign, nor did he take the opportunity to state clearly his views on amnesty. Treadwell affirmed he does support a pathway to citizenship for illegals, but he conveyed as long as illegals didn’t get a “free pass” and “paid a penalty,” that is not amnesty.

Concerning the right to life, Miller noted he is the only candidate endorsed by Alaska Right to Life and both of his primary opponents blocked pro-life ballot initiatives during their terms in office. Sullivan and Treadwell stated their positions required them to follow the law, and Roe v. Wade is the law of the land. Miller pointed out Treadwell had previously said the Constitution protects life from conception. He then asked, “Was your oath to the Constitution or to the Supreme Court?” Treadwell declined to respond.

Miller stated both his opponents supported Lisa Murkowski in 2010, who is a pro-abortion senator. Minnery also made the audience aware of Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich’s recent vote for the Women’s Health Protection Act, which seeks to expand abortion availability nationwide.

Minnery, asked the candidates whether they had any exceptions to their pro-life stand. Sullivan stated he supports exceptions for rape and incest. Treadwell supports an exception for the life of the mother. Miller responded, “I don’t think we ought to be talking about about exceptions, we ought to be talking about life. We save every life we can…We protect those liberties God has given us. The foremost of which is life.” That principle applies to saving the life of the mother, if both cannot be saved. Miller pointed to the example of pro-life advocate Rebecca Kiessling, as one who was conceived in rape who would not be among us, if that exception were to be followed.

He also offered the example of a family supporting the campaign, whose adopted son, Aaron, was the result of the rape of a teenage girl. Miller said, “Why are we going to punish the sons and daughters for the fathers’ sins?” Aaron is now grown-up, with four children of his own, director of sales for their family business (which filed an amicus brief in the Hobby Lobby case.) “These are real life stories. You talk to Aaron, he would say this is a real world issue. This is me standing here flesh and bone. Why would you punish me and my right to life for the sin of another?…” Miller’s remarks on this issue drew perhaps the strongest applause and approval from the crowd during the debate.

On the topic of same-sex marriage, both Treadwell and Sullivan seemed to hedge on their support for traditional marriage, stating they would uphold the Alaska law. Sullivan went on to say that “it is an issue that is very fluid right now…” Treadwell said it is a “sacrament of the church” and that government should not be regulating it or “baptism either.” Miller made clear he supports traditional marriage: “It is the foundation of culture. It is our civilization” and “something government should encourage.”

“Joe Miller once again turned in a winning debate performance,” said Miller campaign spokesman Randy DeSoto. “He is the only true conservative in the race able to unite the Reagan coalition of traditional values and fiscal conservatives.”

Joe Miller is a husband, father, grandfather, combat veteran, and advocate of Constitutional liberty who believes in individual rights, private property, free markets and the sanctity of human life.

Losing Family, Losing God, Losing the Country

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Photo Credit: Red State

Photo Credit: Red State

John Adams once said, to the chagrin of libertarians through the ages, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Indeed, many of the problems we see manifested in our nation today, from the refusal of the president and attorney general to enforce the laws of the land to the Supreme Court finding a right to sexual perversion, have their genesis in the fact that it has become déclassé among the self- described elites to look upon religion as anything other than a curious practice engaged in by proles.

How did we get to this point where we have a government that is fundamentally hostile to religion and religious expression? Where we have a president who repeatedly defines Freedom of Religion as a much more narrow Freedom of Worship?

In a new book called “How the West Really Lost God,” Hoover Institution Research Fellow Mary Eberstadt posits that we stopped becoming a religious people because we destroyed the family…

Contrary to the prevailing theory on secularization, that a decline in religion leads to a decline in family formation, presumably as we become more tolerant of alternative lifestyles. Eberstadt makes a convincing case that religion and family exist side by side in what she terms a “double helix” analogous to DNA structure: that neither can survive without the other and neither can be stronger than the other.

Read more from this story HERE.

Time Magazine Promotes A Childless Lifestyle As The Path To The Good Life For U.S. Couples

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Photo Credit: End of the American DreamThere is a relentless assault on the family in America today unlike anything that we have ever seen before. For decades, the entertainment industry and the mainstream media have been portraying marriage as the time “when your fun is over” and they have been encouraging young adults to put off marriage for as long as possible. So now the marriage rate in the United States is at a record low and the average age for a first marriage is at a record high. Meanwhile, the entertainment industry and the mainstream media have been heavily promoting the philosophy that having fewer children is better, and they have been teaching our young people that abortion is a really good option if an unwanted pregnancy comes along. The whole idea is that children are going to keep you from enjoying the kind of life that you really deserve to have.

This philosophy is taken even further in a new Time Magazine article. The article is entitled “The Childfree Life: When having it all means not having children“, and it openly promotes a “childless lifestyle” as the path to the good life for young U.S. couples. The following is how the article begins…

One evening when she was 14 years old, Laura Scott was washing dishes in the kitchen with her mother when she decided she didn’t want to have a child. At 26, Scott got married and waited for her mind to change. “It never happened,” she says. “And I realized I was going to be fine.” Now 50, Scott is more than fine: she’s fulfilled. And she’s not alone. The birthrate in the U.S. is the lowest in recorded American history. From 2007 to 2011, the most recent year for which there’s data, the fertility rate declined 9%. A 2010 Pew Research report showed that childlessness has risen across all racial and ethnic groups, adding up to about 1 in 5 American women who end their childbearing years maternity-free, compared with 1 in 10 in the 1970s.

The article goes on to point out that the average cost of raising a child born in 2011 to adulthood will be approximately $234,900, and it suggests that women should think long and hard before making such a commitment.

Well, what is a woman to do if she gets pregnant and she decides that raising that child will ruin her life?

According to the entertainment industry and the mainstream media, abortion is a very simple answer to that problem.

Read more from this story HERE.

The Childless City

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Photo Credit: SPLASH NEWS/CORBISWhat is a city for? Ever since cities first emerged thousands of years ago, they have been places where families could congregate and flourish. The family hearth formed the core of the ancient Greek and Roman city, observed the nineteenth-century French historian Fustel de Coulanges. Family was likewise the foundation of the great ancient cities of China and the Middle East. As for modern European cities, the historian Philippe Ariès argued that the contemporary “concept of the family” itself originated in the urbanizing northern Europe shown in Rembrandt’s paintings of bourgeois life. Another historian, Simon Schama, described the seventeenth-century Dutch city as “the Republic of Children.” European immigrants carried the institution of the family-oriented city across the Atlantic to America. In the American city until the 1950s, urbanist Sam Bass Warner observed, the “basic custom” was “commitment to familialism.”

But more recently, we have embarked on an experiment to rid our cities of children. In the 1960s, sociologist Herbert Gans identified a growing chasm between family-oriented suburbanites and people who favored city life—“the rich, the poor, the non-white as well as the unmarried and childless middle class.” Families abandoned cities for the suburbs, driven away by policies that failed to keep streets safe, allowed decent schools to decline, and made living spaces unaffordable. Even the partial rebirth of American cities since then hasn’t been enough to lure families back. The much-ballyhooed and self-celebrating “creative class”—a demographic group that includes not only single professionals but also well-heeled childless couples, empty nesters, and college students—occupies much of the urban space once filled by families. Increasingly, our great American cities, from New York and Chicago to Los Angeles and Seattle, are evolving into playgrounds for the rich, traps for the poor, and way stations for the ambitious young en route eventually to less congested places. The middle-class family has been pushed to the margins, breaking dramatically with urban history. The development raises at least two important questions: Are cities without children sustainable? And are they desirable?

..Demographic trends seem to bear out this vision. Over the past two decades, the percentage of families that have children has fallen in most of the country, but nowhere more dramatically than in our largest, densest urban areas. In cities with populations greater than 500,000, the population of children aged 14 and younger actually declined between 2000 and 2010, according to U.S. Census data, with New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Detroit experiencing the largest numerical drop. Many urban school districts—such as Chicago, which has 145,000 fewer school-age children than it had a decade ago—have seen enrollments plummet and are busily closing schools. The 14-and-younger population increased in only about one-third of all census-designated places, with the greatest rate of growth occurring in smaller urban areas with fewer than 250,000 residents.

Consider, too, the generation of Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 in 2000. By 2010, the core cities of the country’s 51 most populous metropolitan areas had lost, on average, 15 percent of that cohort, many of whom surely married and started having children during that period.

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Walt Disney Conspired With Population Control Zealots in 1968 by Producing this Video

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Thanks to a Facebook post by Rey Flores I became aware of this video created by Walt Disney in 1968. Incredible….

The Disney film was part of the Sierra Club/Ehrlich campaign that had a lot of support from Western power elites. How Disney allowed itself to be co-opted into producing this propaganda piece for the Rockefeller’s notorious Population Council is undoubtedly quite an interesting story.

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The Disappearing American Father: 60% of Women Who Give Birth in their 20’s are Unmarried

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Photo Credit: Leon FishmanMore than six out of 10 women who give birth in their early 20s are unmarried, the Census Bureau said Wednesday in a report that shows sharp discrepancies in single mothers related to income, education and race.

Census demographers said that single motherhood, while on a steady uptick since the 1940s, has accelerated in recent years. The birth rate for unmarried women in 2007 was up 80 percent in the almost three decades since 1980, the report said. But in the previous five years alone, between 2002 and 2007, it was up 20 percent.

Echoing the findings of many academic studies, the Census Bureau report said women with college degrees and higher household incomes are far less likely to be single mothers than are women who have lower household incomes and less education.

Overall, 36 percent of all births in the United States were to unmarried mothers in 2011…

Read more from this story HERE.