The choice to abort a baby is often driven by poverty and isolation. One study states, “Sixty percent [of women who aborted their children] reported they would have preferred to give birth if they had received more support from others or had more financial security.1”... Read More →

  When a young person joins a religious order, his or her parents often have a sense of loss: they feel that they are having to give up their child; this child has declined to carry on their line; in a sense, this child has left their family. I’m pretty sure my parents felt... Read More →