One small yet very important rule I have is to never allow the entire family to be aboard the same plane, because all it takes then would be one crash to wipe out the entire family. Something to keep in mind.
An Air France passenger jet traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris disappeared after its electrical systems malfunctioned during a storm with heavy turbulence on Sunday evening, and officials said Monday that a search had begun for the wreckage near a small archipelago off the Brazilian coast.
Air France’s chief executive Pierre Henri Gourgeon spoke to reporters at the airline’s headquarters, at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport on Monday.
The New York Times
The plane disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean near the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha, Brazilian authorities said.
The plane, an Airbus 330-200, was carrying 216 passengers and 12 crew members. The passengers were 126 men, 82 women, 7 children and an infant. There were nine cabin crew members and three pilots, the airline said.
Source/Full Story:: NYTimes.com
The museum is also the place they assign for God.
The traditional nuclear family – Mum, Dad, 2.4 children – is a shrinking minority. In less than 40 years, the proportion of households fitting this description has dropped from 52 per cent to 36 per cent, according to the latest social trends report from the Office for National Statistics. "The nature of family life has changed significantly in the past 40 years. The traditional family has become a museum piece," said Dr Richard Woolfson, a family expert and child psychologist.
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But according to new research published tomorrow, more than half of the parents questioned admit they don’t spend enough quality time as a family, with work, money and housework blamed most often for this.
Source/Full Story: The Independent
Dealers across the United States reacted with a mixture of anger and sadness on Thursday to word that bankrupt automaker Chrysler LLC plans to eliminate franchise agreements with them as part of its restructuring efforts.
But most, even those surprised by the news, entertained little hope they could stop Chrysler from following through on the proposed closures, the latest chapter in the decline of a company that was — for a brief period in the 1990s — the most profitable car manufacturer in the world.
As a result, the dealers said they were already taking the sad but necessary preliminary steps to close or consolidate businesses that, in many cases, had carried their family names as well as those of the automaker for generations.
"Today is a tough day for a lot of people," said Alex Planas, the general manager of the Tamiami Chrysler Jeep Dodge in Miami, Florida, which employs 100 workers.
Source/Full Story: Reuters
There is a war going on, and this is part of it indeed. The reprobate wax worse and worse…
The pregnancy was unexpected, and for one 32-year-old single mother in Syracuse, New York, the ailing economy became a factor in her decision to have an abortion.
“More so now that we are in a recession … I felt I had to go through with the procedure because I cannot afford another child,” said the woman, a registered nurse who spoke on condition of anonymity because she was worried about job security.
“People say, ‘You’re a nurse, you’ll always have a job.’ I think it’s not as true as people think it is.”
The recession may be a factor influencing more Americans to opt out of parenthood with abortions and vasectomies, although there is no data available yet to suggest a trend
Even so, there is some anecdotal evidence that would-be parents are factoring the rough economic times into the most personal of reproductive choices, some experts said.
In 2005, the last year for which data is available, the U.S. abortion rate fell to the lowest level since 1974, according to the Guttmacher Institute in New York, a nonprofit group focusing on reproductive issues.
But at the National Abortion Federation, a hotline for women seeking abortion information has been “ringing off the hook,” according to the group’s president, Vicki Saporta.
“We are currently getting more calls from women who report that they or their partner have recently lost their job, and we are also hearing from more women facing eviction,” she said.
Source/Full Story:: news.yahoo.com
More people are living alone, more children are being raised by single parents and more grown-up children are living with their parents than ever before, according to the Office for National Statistics.
One expert said that the in-depth annual study was final confirmation that the nuclear family had become “a museum piece”.
The wide-ranging report also showed that Britain had become a nation of people who travel longer distances to work, take more foreign holidays and fill their homes with electrical gadgets.
The Social Trends report made clear, however, that the most radical changes had been to child-rearing and marriage.
Its figures showed that 30 per cent of women under 30 had given birth by the age of 25, while 24 per cent had married: the first time that having children had become the first major milestone of adult life, ahead of marriage. This was in sharp contrast to their parents’ generation. In 1971 three-quarters of women were married by 25, and half had given birth. The statistics also showed that:
Š the number of adults living alone doubled in a generation, from 6 per cent to 12 per cent, because of a combination of death, divorce and marrying at a later age;
Š single-parent households nearly tripled from 4 per cent of the total to 11 per cent between 1971 and 2008;
Š the percentage of households comprising the traditional nuclear family – a couple with children – fell from 52 per cent to 36 per cent over the same period;
Š the number of married couples hit the lowest level, in real terms, since 1895, with 237,000 marriages in England and Wales in 2006, down from a peak of 471,000 during the Second World War;
Š some 1.66 million children were being brought up by an unmarried couple, up from one million 10 years ago. The number brought up by married parents dropped from 9.57 million to 8.32 million.
The figures were published two months after official statistics showed that the annual rate of teenage pregnancy in England had risen to 42 in every 1,000, despite a £286 million government campaign to tackle the problem. The figures reinforced Britain’s position as the teenage pregnancy capital of Europe.
Source/Full Story@: Telegraph
Some points to ponder, for Biblical Patriarchs:
Patriarchal age—the time of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (between 1900 and 1600 b.c.)
A. Rulers of:
Kings and princes Gen. 12:15–20
Family heads (fathers) Gen. 18:18, 19
B. Business of:
Cattle, etc Gen. 12:16
Caravans Gen. 37:28–36
Selling, etc Gen. 23:1–20
Contracts Gen. 21:27–30
Business agreements Gen. 30:28–34
C. Customs of:
Prevalence of polygamy Gen. 16:4
Existence of slavery Gen. 12:16
Son’s wife, selected by his father Gen. 24:1–4
Children given significant names Gen. 29:31–35
D. Religion of:
Existence of idolatry Gen. 35:1, 2
Worship of God Almighty Gen. 14:19–22
God’s covenant recognized Gen. 12:1–3
Circumcision observed Gen. 17:10–14
Headship of father Gen. 35:2
Obedience primary Gen. 18:18, 19
Prayers and sacrifices offered Gen. 12:8
Blessings and curses pronounced by father Gen. 27:27–40
True faith believed Matt. 15:28; Heb. 11:8–22
Thomas Nelson Publishers: Nelson’s Quick Reference Topical Bible Index. Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1995 (Nelson’s Quick Reference), S. 474
Children are a blessing from God; debt is the curse, and yet again we have people who turn away from God’s blessings and dig their graves even faster.
The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives; for those blessed by the LORD shall inherit the land, but those cursed by him shall be cut off.
The steps of a man are established by the LORD, when he delights in his way; though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong, for the LORD upholds his hand. I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread. He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing. Psalms 37:21-26
Source: CNN.com
Dr. J. Stephen Jones had seven vasectomies to perform in a day.
The schedule for Jones, a Cleveland, Ohio, urologist, has become more crowded during a recent boom in vasectomies.
“My staff came to me and said, what’s happening?” said Jones, the chairman of the Department of Regional Urology of Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. “Why are we suddenly having an explosion in guys asking for vasectomies?”
They looked at their statistics and realized the uptick started around November as the economic crisis deepened. October went down in the history books as one of Wall Street’s worst months.
Since then, the Cleveland Clinic has seen a 50 percent increase in vasectomies, an outpatient surgery that is the cheapest form of permanent birth control. Vasectomies are less invasive and cheaper than tubal ligation, which involves blocking, tieing or cutting a woman’s fallopian tubes to prevent pregnancy.
“It’s unlikely that some guy read the Dow Jones numbers that day and said, ‘Why don’t we have a vasectomy?’ ” Jones said. “More likely, people have already been considering it and typically a guy and his wife have spoken a year or two about this.”
Jones was told by patients that they were getting vasectomies because they were losing their jobs and health insurance, or concerned about being out of work soon.
“They realize they don’t have the financial security long-term with what’s going on,” Jones said. “Several of them have mentioned, ‘We can’t afford to have any more children in this economy.’ My perception is that it’s more of the concept of raising children in an uncertain economic future.”
Will the ignorance ever cease?
Source: Mail Online
Using ‘Miss’ and ‘Mrs’ has been banned by leaders of the European Union because they are not considered politically correct.
Brussels bureaucrats have decided the words are sexist and issued new guidelines in its bid to create ‘gender-neutral’ language.
The booklet warns European politicians they must avoid referring to a woman’s marital status.
This also means Madame and Mademoiselle, Frau and Fraulein and Senora and Senorita are banned.
Instead of using the standard titles, it is asking MEPs to address women by their names.
And the rules have not stopped there – they also ban MEPs saying sportsmen and statesmen, advising athletes and political leaders should be used instead.
Man-made is also taboo – it should be artificial or synthetic, firemen is disallowed and air hostesses should be called flight attendants.
Headmasters and headmistresses must be heads or head teachers, laymen becomes layperson, and manageress or mayoress should be manager or mayor.
Police officers must be used instead of policeman and policewoman unless the officer’s sex is relevant.
Source: USATODAY.com
The percentage of American households with children under 18 living at home last year hit the lowest point — 46% — in half a century, government data reported Wednesday.
The trend reflects the aging of the Baby Boom generation and younger women having fewer children, demographers say.
“Baby Boomers have been a big force in driving a lot of different population dynamics,” says Rose Kreider, a family demographer at the Census Bureau, which released the data.
In 2008, about 35.7 million families (46%) had children under 18 at home, the Census figures show, down from 52% in 1950. The percentage peaked in 1963, when about 57% of families had children under 18 at home.
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… When cash-strapped workers have fewer dollars to feed another mouth, couples are likely to have fewer children, or none.
The data also show:
•About 5.3 million “stay-at-home” mothers and 140,000 such fathers.
•The median age at first marriage was 27.4 years for men and 25.6 for women.
•Fewer women in their mid- to early 40s had children in 2008 (20%), up from 10% in 1976.
•The percentage of children with two parents at home varies: 85% of Asian children have two parents at home vs. 78% of white, 70% of Hispanic and 38% of black children.
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Have you noticed that the anti-Biblical Patriarchy bloggers seem to be rapidly losing steam and falling by the way side, as readership dwindles and interest wanes. This is surprising really. It’s inevitable when one has such a narrow focus, and all to negative to boot. Oh well, Biblical Patriarchy moves forward, slowly perhaps, but progress is made indeed. Great is His name.
We have said this for years, that Scripture teaches us that children are a blessing and debt is a curse, and yet everyone, especially in today’s economic environment is practically begging to be allowed to continue going deeper in debt (a curse!), and cursing the blessings of God, ie. the children.
We need more women who value motherhood like this…and her mother needs to have faith, or at least keep her mouth shut and not continue making disparaging comments about her daughter in public.
Source: Reuters
The California mother of newborn octuplets said on Monday she was counting on God to help provide for her family but acknowledged that she already was “struggling” financially to raise her first six children.
Nadya Suleman, 33, widely criticized for undergoing fertility treatments when she already had six children, expressed confidence in her ability to care for her brood during a nationally televised interview on NBC’s “Today” show.
In addition to the six boys and two girls she gave birth to on January 26, Suleman is the mother of four older boys and two girls, including one set of twins, ranging in age from 2 to 7.
Divorced and living with her mother in suburban Los Angeles, she said all 14 were conceived with in vitro fertilization from a single sperm donor, identified only as a friend.
“I will feed them. I will do the best I possibly can,” Suleman said of her newly expanded family. “And in my own way, in my own faith, I do believe wholeheartedly that God will provide in his own way.”
Suleman said she also was hoping for help from “volunteers, friends and family,” adding that her mother, Angela, deserves much of the credit. “I was struggling, but it was OK … thanks to my mother,” she said.
But Angela Suleman was far less sanguine in a separate interview she gave to the Web site RadarOnline.com, calling her daughter continued childbearing “unconscionable.”
“How she’s going to cope, I don’t know,” the grandmother said. “Now I’m struggling to look after her six. We had to put in bunk beds, feed them in shifts, and there’s children’s clothing piled all over the house.”
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And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. 1 Timothy 2:14
Source: CNN.com
The Rev. Sharon Watkins will deliver the sermon at the traditional National Prayer Service on January 21, the day after Barack Obama is sworn in as president, the Presidential Inaugural Committee announced Sunday.Watkins, the general minister and president of the 700,000-member church Disciples of Christ, will be the first woman to deliver the sermon at the inaugural event.
It takes place at the National Cathedral in northwest Washington.
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Source: Associated Baptist Press
A group of conservative Christian women is seeking 100,000 signatures on a “True Woman Manifesto” aimed at sparking a counter-revolution to the feminist movement of the 1960s.
Introduced at a gathering of more than 6,000 women in early October, the document calls not for equal rights, but instead proclaims that men and women are created to reflect God’s image in “complementary and distinct ways.”
That includes the idea that women are called “to honor and support God-ordained male leadership in the home and in the church.”
“That is very explosive stuff,” organizer Mary Kassian described the campaign Nov.25 on a radio program hosted by Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. “It is countercultural, because the world would be screaming at us, women would be screaming at us: ‘What are you doing? All those rights that we fought so hard for, how can you say ‘ust give that up and say that men are to be the heads of the homes?’
“The basis on which we do that is because we believe that is taught in Scripture,” Kassian explained. “And we believe that is a blessing for women and not a curse against women, and that actually when we live according to God’s design, we find blessing and peace and wholeness in our lives.”
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Source: The Independent
The male gender is in danger, with incalculable consequences for both humans and wildlife, startling scientific research from around the world reveals.
The research – to be detailed tomorrow in the most comprehensive report yet published – shows that a host of common chemicals is feminising males of every class of vertebrate animals, from fish to mammals, including people.
Backed by some of the world’s leading scientists, who say that it “waves a red flag” for humanity and shows that evolution itself is being disrupted, the report comes out at a particularly sensitive time for ministers. On Wednesday, Britain will lead opposition to proposed new European controls on pesticides, many of which have been found to have “gender-bending” effects.
It also follows hard on the heels of new American research which shows that baby boys born to women exposed to widespread chemicals in pregnancy are born with smaller penises and feminised genitals.
“This research shows that the basic male tool kit is under threat,” says Gwynne Lyons, a former government adviser on the health effects of chemicals, who wrote the report.
Wildlife and people have been exposed to more than 100,000 new chemicals in recent years, and the European Commission has admitted that 99 per cent of them are not adequately regulated. There is not even proper safety information on 85 per cent of them.
Many have been identified as “endocrine disrupters” – or gender-benders – because they interfere with hormones. These include phthalates, used in food wrapping, cosmetics and baby powders among other applications; flame retardants in furniture and electrical goods; PCBs, a now banned group of substances still widespread in food and the environment; and many pesticides.
The report – published by the charity CHEMTrust and drawing on more than 250 scientific studies from around the world – concentrates mainly on wildlife, identifying effects in species ranging from the polar bears of the Arctic to the eland of the South African plains, and from whales in the depths of the oceans to high-flying falcons and eagles.
It concludes: “Males of species from each of the main classes of vertebrate animals (including bony fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) have been affected by chemicals in the environment.
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“Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.” Genesis 25:1-2
God loved Abraham, and He had tested and tried him as few men have been. Abraham had met the tests marvelously, and now, rejuvenated, God blessed him with a young woman. Earlier (Gen. 24:1), we see Abraham “old, and well stricken in age.” Now he married Keturah and fathers six sons, and he sees them grow to maturity. More than what this tells us about Abraham is what it tells us about God. God does not bless Abraham by finding some ancient monastery for him. Rather, God provides for His friend (James 2:23) a fresh bride in his old age. Failure to see this means a failure to know the God of Scripture.
From: R.J. Rushdoony: Commentary on the Pentateuch. Genesis. California 2002, p.182.
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