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Dec 24, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Jenet Erickson
Keywordslove, covenant, LGBTQ, mental health, religion, youth, young adultsAbstractOur youth are experiencing a profound hunger for connection, evidenced by an epidemic of loneliness and increasing mental health challenges despite the seeming connectivity of a world swimming in social media. The deepest loneliness stems from disruption and disorder in family life, including ruptured or never formed family relationships.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Alyssa Brown |Jenet Erickson |Brigham Young
Keywordsratification, convention, rights of the child, parent-child relationshipCollegeFamily, Home, and Social SciencesAbstractThe Convention on the Rights of the Child is a United Nations treaty declaring the government’s duty to protect children and to provide for their material and immaterial needs, essentially seeking to protect children’s rights. On a worldwide scale this treaty has been greeted with open arms as it has been ratified by 193 UN States Parties.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
deseret.com | Jenet Erickson
Marketers of Hulu are well-versed in the art of tabloid - draw viewers in with a juicy headline that tells them they're going to get the real truth about the "darker secrets" people have been covering up.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
publicsquaremag.org | Jenet Erickson
Former Princeton professor and renowned sociologist Sara McLanahan describes reading an article in the 1980s when she was a new professor that claimed that growing up with a single parent could be harmful to children. She was “stunned” by the implication. A single mother of three, she set out on a “relentless mission” to prove the idea was wrong. “Dogged” in her pursuit of truth, she analyzed and re-analyzed the implications of single-parenthood for children.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
publicsquaremag.org | Jenet Erickson
A greater awareness of sexual pleasure is not enough to confront the serious challenges young people face navigating sexuality in America today.
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May 10, 2024 | 
deseret.com | Jenet Erickson
We had been home with our first newborn for less than six hours when my husband started doing calisthenics with her. I looked at him in wonderment. "What are you doing?!" My protective mother's heart wanted to swaddle up her 6.5 pounds and hold her close, while he couldn't wait to bounce her around and play with her. That pattern persisted. Two years later, I was sitting on the couch reviewing research on parenting.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
christianitytoday.com | Justin Dyer |Jenet Erickson
In 2021, the Religious Exception Accountability Project (REAP) brought a lawsuit calling for "an end to the U.S. Department of Education's complicity in the abuses and unsafe conditions thousands of LGBTQ+ students endure at hundreds of taxpayer-funded, religious colleges and universities." The underlying premise of REAP's suit is that the federal government "is duty-bound by Title IX and the U.S. Constitution to protect sexual and gender minority students at taxpayer-funded colleges and...
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Jenet Erickson
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Aug 14, 2023 | 
ifstudies.org | W. Bradford Wilcox |Jenet Erickson
Editor's Note: The following blog post is excerpted from the new Sutherland Institute and Institute for Family Studies report, The Utah Family Miracle: Five Policy Ideas to Keep Utah Families Strong and Stable.
Utah lands at the top of many rankings of state performance across America. But the Beehive State is perhaps best known for its top rankings on the economic front. Utah’s economy is widely seen as the best in the nation.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
aei.org | W. Bradford Wilcox |Patrick Brown |Jenet Erickson
Utah ranks at the top of many rankings of state performance across America. But perhaps the Beehive State is best known for its top rankings on the economic front. The “Utah economic miracle” — marked by exceptional economic growth, a favorable business climate and high rates of economic mobility — has garnered attention across the nation and helps explain why Utah’s economy ranks No. 1 among all 50 states, according to U.S. News & World Report.
