Eric Scheske

Subscribe

Family

Sex Overrides Again

In New Hampshire, a minor needs parental consent to use a tanning salon, to get a tattoo, to get body piercing, or take an aspirin while at school. But a minor doesn't need parental consent to take the morning-after pill, thanks to recent legislation. The governor even attended

The Dysfunctional Society Revisited

In response to our post about The Dysfunctional Society [https://thedailyeudemon.com/2082/], an astute reader wrote to us: > When I read the first paragraph of the original Wash Times article a couple of days ago, I got the same impression: two-parent households have been superseded by single-parent households.

The Dysfunctional Society

Single-adult families are now the most common household in America. Studies of all stripes consistently prove that kids are better off with a married mother and father and that kids without that stable foundation are more likely to encounter a host of troubles later. No matter, we're dealing

Giving the Rest of Us Morning Sickness

Here comes the "maternity is so beautiful it oughtta be naked" phenom again: > Demi Moore has revealed that she and toyboy boyfriend Ashton Kutcher are planning to have a baby. > In an eye-opening interview with Harper's Bazaar magazine the 42-year-old actress is surprisingly honest

No Sacrament, No Contract, and Now Not Even a Reception

These people got married by blog. Link [http://weblogs.about.com/b/a/193241.htm] .

Godless and Childless

A writer at Asia Times Online has fired a nice salvo at secularist ideas and practice as seen through the prism of babies. Link [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GH02Aa01.html]. Excerpts: > Humankind cannot abide the terror of mortality without the promise of immortality, I have argue

Thank You, Dr. Obvious

It's encouraging to see a European secularist acknowledge Europe's birth problem. Unfortunately, we suspect he's sparring for the socialist vision: Using the State to make it possible for women to work and raise families. In other words: establishing numerous, cheap, state-run daycare facilities. It&

The Bizarro St. Josephs?

> Research suggests that, as cases of teenage pregnancies, sexual infidelity and multiple partners increase, 1 in 25 fathers could unknowingly be raising another man's child. > With improvements in genetic testing, thousands of fathers every year are discovering that “their” child is someone else's. A

How Appropriate

> Evansville city officials are considering a request by a couple to be married in a city cemetery. Link [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CEMETERY_WEDDING?SITE=NYNYD&SECTION=STRANGE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-08-05-17-07-02] . Reminds of that little ditty Eric Scheske sings when married life

Not Bad for a Hollywoodite

> Kate Hudson has interesting ideas about marriage. On TV's ''Access Hollywood," the actress said, ''I don't believe [monogamy] is realistic. But I believe that we, as people, have the power to make it happen." She added: ''I