Parenting
Tears for Breakfast
Prayerful preparation can help parents recognize predictable stress points and respond with steadier love.
Sherene Van Dyke
May 11, 2026
Prayerful preparation can help parents recognize predictable stress points and respond with steadier love.
Motherhood is not a retreat from intellectual life but a demanding school of attention, interpretation, and growth.
The work often labeled emotional labor may be better understood as women’s power to influence a home for good.
The pro-life movement is losing ground, and Latter-day Saints have both reason and duty to help reverse it.
Research points to ten life patterns that reduce vulnerability and help protect women from sexual violence.
The sexual revolution did not erase consequences; it delayed them, leaving later generations to absorb the deepest costs
Research shows sexual violence is more likely where women are isolated, unsupported, undereducated, unmarried, and surrounded by addiction.
Child safety hinges on relationships, routines, and accountability layers—not impassioned slogans or single-policy adjustments.
What the evidence says about porn exposure, delinquent peers, and impulsivity as repeated predictors of child victimization?
Beyond dismissal and deconstruction: how to hold space for suffering while staying faithful to revealed truths.
From racism to marriage stress, exemplary Black families use bonding humor as medicine—building joy, unity, and endurance.
Beyond offenders, research points to enabling conditions that make abuse easier to commit and hide.