Aug 28, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
A husband and father struggles to discover his place in the home. What exactly is his mission and how does he go about achieving it? A proper notion of peace, and of home, can offer clarification. Augustine’s definition of peace is my all-time favorite definition....
Jun 26, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
A central issue in parenting is discovering our role in the moral formation of our children. How do we best go about doing our part in helping them become the people we so want them to be? This is of course a complex question, and perhaps the first thing to realize is...
Jun 12, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
In an age that questions, doubts, and undermines first things, there is at least one silver lining. It demands that we look more intently and perhaps even discover some of these ‘first things’ for the first time. Fatherhood stands out among these. It might have seemed...
Jun 14, 2023 | Articles, Institute of Family Studies, Wednesday Quotes
Sociologist Christopher Lasch once wrote, “Socialization makes the individual want to do what he has to do; the family is the agency to which society entrusts this complex and delicate task.” Complex and delicate indeed. But then again, it is no more complex than the...
Feb 4, 2015 | Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes
“For the begetter is the ruler by reason of love and age…” Aristotle, Politics Perhaps we do not normally think of parents as rulers. Aristotle did. He seems to think that after giving children life there is nothing more important than giving them direction: direction...
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