Chap Clark’s chapter on stress and busyness struck me powerfully. You may have heard of something called a Life Stress Test. This test assigns a point value to a long list of major life events. You select the events that have occurred in your life over the last couple of years and are left with a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Family’
Adolescent Stress
Posted in Reality: Ignored, tagged Family, Hurt, Teenagers on June 30, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Pregnancy Trends in the U.S.
Posted in Reality: Ignored, tagged Abortion, Birth Control, Family, Marriage, Pregnancy on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I read an article on msnbc.com yesterday that I can’t get out of my mind. The headline read: “Fewer U.S. teens are getting pregnant; But more unmarried women in their 20s had babies, study found.” This study was conducted in 2004, and it revealed exactly what the headline suggests: nearly 38 percent of pregnancies in 2004 [...]
I’m Supposed to Bring a Baby into this Mess?
Posted in Who He Is, tagged Family, Pregnancy on October 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I read a story today. It was about a school in Maine making the decision to offer a full range of contraceptive products to their middle school students. These kids are between the ages of 11 and 13. Did I even know what a contraceptive was when I was eleven?
Another headline reads, On any given [...]
