In the mid-70’s my husband, Bill and I were friends with a couple whose children played with our children. They lived a few blocks from us. The husband and I worked at the same hospital in the same department. I was a medical technology intern and he was a physician...
This meme spotted on Facebook is a poignant reminder of those days 20+ years ago when we moved our son (at The Citadel) and our daughter (at Birmingham-Southern College) into their dorm rooms to start college. I didn’t cry when we left Billy in Charleston. I was...
Yesterday I attended the funeral of my sister-in-law’s 83 year old mother, Charlene Sheffield Mallard. It was a sweet celebration of a gifted Christian woman. Her lifelong love of art and painting and her ministry to preschool children were especially noted. ...
Pew Research Center on Family Structures Dec 2014 (Gretchen Livingston is a senior researcher focusing on fertility and family demographics at Pew Research Center.) “Less than half (46%) of U.S. kids younger than 18 years of age are living in a home with two married...
I had studied the information cited below on children’s status in ancient cultures in human development and social science classes through the years. It is also well documented that Methodists worked in the 18th century to eliminate child labor abuses and foster...
