
mothers
Pat Fagan
October 23, 2012
By Pat Fagan, Ph.D., Director of MARRI
Pat Fagan
September 17, 2012
“16 and Pregnant,” “Teen Moms,” and countless other reality shows have popularized and perhaps even glamorized the lives of unmarried mothers in our society. In addition, the trend of popular female celebrities becoming single mothers furthers the attention. While Hollywood portrays this family structure as desirable and even empowering for women, the true hardships of single motherhood are not always given their just time in the spotlight. Let me be clear, I applaud single and unwed mothers for choosing life for their babies, a valiant decision in a culture which all but hands them a “get out of motherhood free” card. No, the solution to the plight of the single mother does not come from abortion, but rather from Marriage.
Pat Fagan
June 29, 2012
Pat Fagan
February 15, 2012
Pat Fagan
February 3, 2012
Bachmann’s story is not a pitch for a return to a postwar arcadia of fixed gender roles in little boxes made of ticky-tacky. Instead, she casts herself as an icon of American working womanhood, a “career woman” whose calling and identity are not clouded by the “faddish fog of ‘feminism,’” but are instead the result of real-life experience, Midwestern pragmatism, and Christian faith. Secular feminists have long dismissed the women of the Christian right as a mob of Hillary-hating homemakers. What they haven’t noticed is that, for the past few decades, American conservatives have been building the case that the GOP is no longer the party of Betty Draper—it’s the party of the working mom.
Pat Fagan
November 4, 2011
By Anna Dorminey, Staff
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