My wife was reading through a book last night entitled, “Guiding Your Catholic Preschooler” by Kathy Pierce and Lori Rowland, a book that neither of us can remember purchasing. Suddenly she blurts out, “What?!”
So of course I had to ask.
“Books,” she says, beginning the section. “What is your child looking at and reading about in [...]

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The other day I wrote a post about how women in the workforce have damaged the family wage, and therefore how ironic it was that there were news reports worrying over how economic downturns affect women’s wages and therefore the financial health of families.
The comments got dragged off-topic into a long discussion about just wages [...]

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Marketwatch breathtakingly reports “FAMILIES AT RISK IN RECESSION…Women’s Jobs More Vulnerable In A Downturn”
What it doesn’t talk about is just what the hell happened to the family wage. Why is it that no man, unless he’s done very well for himself in rising above the average payscale of the corporate schlub, can provide for his [...]

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Ok, so the title of this post is over-wrought, and not even really what I mean to say. But it was all I could think of, and it struck me funny.
Recently, Hilary sent me an article in which she highlighted a section relevant to our discussion of those who, out of a rejection of the [...]

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It probably sounds rather trite and unoriginal of me to say it, but take me at my word. In college, I think, I was far too immature to appreciate (let alone really understand) what he was driving at, and so the furthest I ever made it was to chapter 3 of Orthodoxy, where I got [...]

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