Only 46% of children aged 15-17 in the United States have been raised with both their married biological parents since at or near the time of their birth, according to a new US survey. The Marriage and Religion Research Institute, (MARRI), a branch of the Family Research Council, released its 4th annual ‘Index of Family...
The Spanish government has won a parliamentary vote against a Socialist motion that would have forced it to withdraw a bill aimed at narrowing the circumstances under which abortion is available. Spain has had abortion on demand up to 14 weeks since 2010. Justice Minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon’s bill, which bans abortion except in the case...
A proposal to legalise euthanasia in Quebec will be put to a vote in the National Assembly next week. Bill 52, which legislates for “medical aid in dying,” and would allow any adult to request to be killed, is expected to pass. The bill has been strongly criticised. Archbishop Christian Lepine of Montreal, in his...
The Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter, has defended his proposed Family and Relationships bill, which seeks to regulate the whole area of Assisted Human Reproduction but which overlooks the importance of giving a child a mother and a father. “It is important that legislation should support couples who wish to create a family together” Minister...
Scotland’s new same-sex marriage law contains a provision stating that the introduction of same-sex marriage will have no impact on existing rights to freedom of speech and that it is possible to oppose same-sex marriage “without being homophobic”. However, stronger protections were rejected including an amendment from the Scottish National Party’s John Mason which stated...
The Supreme Court has reserved judgement in the State’s appeal of a landmark surrogacy case in which the High Court decided that twin’s genetic mother, rather than the surrogate mother, that is the birth mother, was to be placed on the birth certificate as the the legal mother of the children. According to The Irish...
The Supreme Court has been told that twins born to a surrogate mother must have the genetic link with their ‘commissioning’ parents recognised. On the second day of an ongoing appeal by the State against a High Court decision recognising the genetic mother as the legal mother of twins born to a surrogate mother, Gerard...
The Supreme Court has been told that twins born to a surrogate mother must have the genetic link with their ‘commissioning’ parents recognised. On the second day of an ongoing appeal by the State against a High Court decision recognising the genetic mother as the legal mother of twins born to a surrogate mother, Gerard...
Speaking to a gathering of women and men from religious orders throughout the Archdiocese of Dublin in Terenure College, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said that faith provided an answer to the “alienation and hopelessness and suffering and search for meaning that exists among the men and women of our time.” He also said that religious in...
In a landmark appeal to the Supreme Court, the State has argued that the Oireachtas should have the power to define legal motherhood. The State is appealing an earlier High Court decision which found that twins born through surrogacy were the children of their genetic, rather than their birth mother. According to the Irish Times,...
