The Centers for Disease Control has released a report that says children who are raised in the biological home of their mother and father have much less trauma than children in one-parent homes or in foster care.
The study looked at a variety of traumatic experiences including divorce, death of a parent, alcohol or drug problems or suffered racial discrimination.
The report shows that 70 percent of children raised in the home of their biological parents had no adverse family experiences compared to 21.7 percent of single parent homes and 18.7 of those raised by no biological parents.
The information from the National Survey of Children’s Health shows that of the children who experienced trauma, those in the homes of biological parents saw much less extremes.
In the case of drug or alcohol problems, only 4 percent of children with their mother and father saw that problem compared to 18.9 percent in single parent homes and 42.2 percent in foster care.
The movie telling the true story of convicted murderer abortionist Kermit Gosnell is reportedly within $122,000 of being fully funded.
The filmmakers have until Monday at midnight to obtain the rest of the funding through the crowdfunding site Indiegogo or all the donations will be returned.
“Dr. Kermit Gosnell is the most prolific serial killer in American History but almost no one knows who he is,” the filmmakers wrote on their funding site. “The mainstream media or Hollywood don’t think this is a story. Even though Gosnell killed more people than [notorious serial killers] Gary Ridgeway, John Wayne Gacy, the Zodiac Killer and Ted Bundy combined.”
Gosnell is serving life in prison after being convicted of killing three babies, involuntary manslaughter in the death of a patient who died from a botched abortion and running a pill mill from his clinics.
So far, over 20,000 people have given to have the film produced and distributed to allow people to see the truth of the abortion industry.
The United States Department of State announced they are offering to send a team into Nigeria to find the over 200 girls kidnapped by the Islamic terror group Boko Haram.
The offer comes as Boko Haram has made another brazen attack on a Nigerian village, murdering 150 people at a crowded outdoor marketplace. The terrorists laughed and yelled “Allahu Akbar” as they threw improvised bombs and fired rocket-propelled grenades into innocent civilians.
The terrorists also set fire to buildings where people tried to take shelter from the murderous rampage.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the U.S. will establish a “coordination cell” to provide intelligence, investigations and expertise in hostage negotiation. U.S. military personnel will be part of the cell and based at the U.S. Embassy in Abuja.
A spokesman for British Prime Minister David Cameron said they will be sending experts to assist the American team.
In what’s being hailed as a victory in the battle to defend Americans’ religious freedom, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that it is Constitutional for government meetings to have a prayer spoken at the opening of the gathering.
The decision was specifically praised for the very clear response to the issue.
“Even if [the decision] did uphold prayer in public legislative sessions, I wasn’t sure how clear that would be. This is crystal clear,” Rev. Rob Schenck told the Christian Post. “I would say, from reading the opinion, this is going to give very clear guidance in the future and it’s going to frustrate a lot of people who will attempt to get prayer at legislative sessions or any kind of public gathering shut down.”
The court’s five conservative justices said the prayers at the opening of the meetings were for the participants in the meeting and not for the general public.
Those who have tried to eliminate Christianity from public life were expectedly upset with the court’s decision. Rob Boston of the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State said the court’s ruling upholding religious freedom was “out of step with the realties of modern-day America.”
“The majority opinion makes it clear that legislative prayer often isn’t coercive because the adults being exposed to it have options, such as leaving the room,” Boston said before making a threat. “So, if any misguided religious right activists out there is thinking this decision opens the door for a return of official school prayer, they can forget it.”
The rates of teen pregnancy and abortion have declined dramatically in the United States.
A new report from the Guttmacher Institute shows that in 2010, the number of teen pregnancies totaled 614,000, a 51% decline from the 1990 peak. It’s also a 15% decline over the last two years.
The teen abortion rate has declined 66% from its peak in 1988, from 43.5 abortions per 1,000 to 14.7 per 1,000.
“The decline in the teen pregnancy rate is great news,” says lead author Kathryn Kost. “Other reports had already demonstrated sustained declines in births among teens in the past few years; but now we know that this is due to the fact that fewer teens are becoming pregnant in the first place.”
The report also showed that the decline was across all racial and economic groups. However, the rates for black and Hispanic teens were double the rates for all other racial demographics.
Emily Letts, a 25-year-old abortion counselor, filmed her own abortion as a promotional tool to show how wonderful it is to kill your baby via abortion.
The video does not show the lower part of Letts’ body nor the actual abortion process, so viewers can’t actually see the life of her child being ended by an abortionist. The video was also part of a essay for Cosmopolitan magazine.
At the end of the procedure, Letts tells the camera how good she feels from the abortion.
Letts also told the website ThinkProgress a month after her abortion that she doesn’t feel bad about it and that “I don’t feel sad. I knew that what I was going to do was right.”
The pro-abortion ThinkProgress site tries to take Letts video and use it to call for other women to say how great abortion is in an attempt to counter those who are trying to protect the sanctity of human life.
Boxing champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is facing a heavy backlash on social media after taking a strong anti-abortion stand.
Mayweather, who unified the WBA and WBC Welterweight titles in a controversial win Saturday night, revealed during the week that he had broken up with his fiancée after she secretly had an abortion.
“I’m totally against killing babies,” Mayweather said on Twitter as he posted a sonogram photo of what he said was the twins. “She killed our twin babies.”
Floyd was immediately attacked by pro-abortionists on Twitter and Facebook saying that he had no right to demand his now ex-fiancee have the babies and that he had no right to say abortion is killing a baby. Many slammed him for making a public statement about something they felt was only his ex’s business.
Some even called for him to be stripped of his title before the fight and to no longer be allowed to professionally fight because of his anti-abortion stance.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has told the State Department they need to add eight countries to the list of “countries of particular concern” where severe violations of religious freedom are taking place.
The group is calling for Egypt, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Vietnam to be added to the list that already includes Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Uzbekistan.
“With religious freedom abuses occurring daily around the world,” USCIRF Chairman Robert George wrote, “the United States must by words and deeds stand in solidarity with the persecuted.”
The announcement is the 15th from the group since they were founded in 1998. The commission often travels to foreign nations to study the levels of religious freedom in countries and to determine levels of persecution.
Christian persecution advocacy group Open Doors said that all of the countries on the proposed list are in their top 50 worldwide for Christian persecution and 11 were in the top 15.
The Centers for Disease Control has confirmed the deadly MERS virus has reached the United States.
The patient was found in Indiana. He had traveled from Saudi Arabia to London and then to Chicago where he entered the country through O’Hare International Airport. The male patient reportedly went to the hospital for treatment after experiencing shortness of breath on April 28th.
“The CDC, IDPH and CDPH do not consider passengers on the flight or bus to be close contacts of the patient and therefore are not at high risk,” CDC Director Dr. LaMar Hasbrouk said in a news release.
The U.S. now the 14th nation in the world to have reported cases of the killer virus.
The CDC is trying to assuage any fears among the public of an outbreak of the virus.
“It is understandable that some may be concerned about this situation, but this first U.S. case of MERS-CoV infection represents a very low risk to the general public,” said Dr. Anne Schuchat, assistant surgeon general and director of CDC’s National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases.
The CDC has not yet issued a travel health warning for Saudi Arabia as Egypt has recently done because of the MERS outbreak.
WASHINGTON – At the National Day of Prayer event held on Capitol Hill Thursday, Rabbi Jonathan Cahn issued a dire warning to America: The nation “stands in danger of impending judgment, and we all know it.”
“Too much of the church has lost its saltiness to do anything about it,” he declared. “And now the same biblical signs of national judgment that appeared in the last days of ancient Israel are reappearing on American soil.”
At the beginning of his commanding speech, Cahn, author of runaway bestseller, “The Harbinger,”and its movie companion “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment” from WND films, warned that his address would not be politically correct. He urged the nation to “come before the Lord and seek His face, and His purposes, and His will for this land and to pray for America.”
While Cahn said America has been blessed as no other nation has been blessed, he added, “To whom much is given, much is required.”
Source: WNB – WND: ‘Harbinger’ Rabbi Warns America of ‘Impending Judgment’