Noah Torres is a policy analyst for the Family Success Project at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, where he focuses on marriage and family formation policy and healthcare antitrust regulation and enforcement.
Feb. 7 marked the beginning of National Marriage Week, a period dedicated to the celebration of the joys and benefits of happy and healthy marriages. Since its inception in 1996 in the United Kingdom and its adoption in 2002 in the United States, each annual National Marriage Week has focused on a specific theme central...
At a Jan. 13 conference hosted by the Holy See and the Italian Ministry for Family, Birth Rate, and Equal Opportunities, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Paul Gallagher offered sharp criticisms of surrogacy, the practice of a surrogate mother carrying a pregnancy for another person (“commissioning parent”). While surrogacy may help...
Set at a New England boarding school around Christmas 1970, Alexander Payne’s 2023 film, The Holdovers centers on the school’s three holiday “holdovers”, that is, those who are unable to leave campus for the winter break. Occupying the empty campus during the frigid northeastern winter is Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti), a cranky, unmarried classics teacher...
In It’s a Wonderful Life, George Bailey’s great ambition is not wealth or status. It is something far more ordinary and far more powerful: the ability for working families to afford a home, put down roots, and build a future together. Bedford Falls thrives not because of grand social programs, but because ordinary people can buy modest homes...
After years of struggling with infertility and several autoimmune disease diagnoses, Clara was advised to begin IVF treatment. But Clara was concerned about the stress IVF would put on her body, so she and her husband chose a different path. At the age of 38, following three cycles of restorative reproductive medicine (RRM), Clara gave...
‘If I believe life begins at conception, and I do, there are nine lives sitting on ice in a freezer that bear my DNA.’ When faced with infertility, Ericka Andersen turned to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) in hopes of finally having children of her own. A committed pro-life advocate, she believed IVF aligned with her values. But it...