Glenn T. Stanton

God creates man and woman as reflections of the image of the Trinity.

We dishonor God when we fail to mirror the Trinitarian reality and beauty in our relationships.

Many people mistakenly believe that living together is an effective way to test a potential marriage. But is cohabitation really a smart move for couples interested in a healthy, lasting marriage?

While it might seem old-fashioned or passé to people outside the faith, the Christian view of sexuality is actually a very radical one. God’s design for sex is bigger than we often realize.

A continually growing mound of data shows that premarital sex is associated with increased risk of divorce. Here are some of the studies.

It has been well-established for decades that there exists a dramatic connection between thriving, intact families and financial well-being for women and children. Here is a summary overview of the major academic contributions to this field of inquiry over the last few decades and their various findings.

Compared with off-spring from married, intact mother/father homes, children raised in same-sex homes are markedly more likely to…

For Focus on the Family, Millennials are the present generation moving (or not) into family life.

What helps ensure our children carry their faith into adulthood?

Male and female are not what we feel we are, but what we actually are. Help your kids sort the truth from fiction regarding transgenderism because transgenderism doesn’t physically exist.

Why traditional Christians believe as they do regarding gender, sexuality, marriage, and the family.

How is marriage faring in terms of young people’s attitudes and life dreams?

There is not a great wealth of research on the best age to marry, but there is some good data that can be helpful.

Is marriage an old-fashioned, outmoded institution? Is it merely a piece of paper, having no real impact on our lives?

civil marriage (noun) a marriage performed, solemnized, recorded, and recognized by a government official as a civil contract.

To be human is to be gendered — male or female. And one of the most important jobs of a parent is to help their children develop as healthy boys or girls and into strong, confident men and women.

When fathers take the time to build relationships with their sons, they help them develop their identity, confidence and perseverance

Christianity is blessed with extremely strong and clear teaching on abortion found in ancient texts from the earliest church fathers.

Children have the right to be loved by his or her own married biological or adoptive mother and father. But the trends of divorce, artificial reproductive technology/surrogacy, and same-sex marriage and parenting intentionally robs every child they touch of the daily love from a mother AND father. We might not like this truth but the reality is that it is them before us

Dr. Bradley captures the reason for this boy crisis bluntly, “Men and boys are lost!” He adds, “They don’t know why the country needs them. They don’t know why they are here.” The male problem today is a crisis of hopelessness. They lack a sense of purpose.

The victorious God of Easter morning can relate all too well to whatever anguish you might be suffering on your own Holy Thursday and Good Friday—as a pastor, the weight of your vocation, and the unknown trials of your congregation.

Married individuals … experience less stress and emotional pathology than their unmarried counterparts.

Why is a couple’s prayer life such a strong aspect of marital happiness? Three types of prayers happen in different instances and have unique marriage-enhancing effects.

Manhood is not so much about anatomy and age as it is a particular set of character qualities.

A woman offended by a man’s genuine kindness doesn’t deserve an apology.

Family formation expert Glenn Stanton offers insight and advice from his book Secure Daughters, Confident Sons: How Parents Guide Their Children Into Authentic Masculinity and Femininity. (Part 2 of 2)

Family formation expert Glenn Stanton offers insight and advice from his book Secure Daughters, Confident Sons: How Parents Guide Their Children Into Authentic Masculinity and Femininity. (Part 1 of 2)

Teaching our boys to be men is not dangerous, and we fathers should not shrink from this essential task.

Authoritative research conducted at leading universities presents the case that religious service attendance makes a strong positive contribution to marriages, including a resistance to divorce.

Manhood is in crisis today. The increasingly accurate term “perpetual adolescence” is not a reference to girls failing to grow up.

What is it about manhood that requires intentionality in turning boys into men?

Knowing why manhood is essential and what it does.

Why is the human male and female nature constant across time and cultures?

It has become an oft-repeated truism that young people are leaving both the faith and Church in very disturbing numbers. The truth, however, is a much more encouraging story.

The Recent Pew Report Offers Surprising Good News.

One of the very interesting, and underappreciated, things about the differences in the human male and female nature is that femininity doesn’t need to prove itself. Manhood does.

Here’s why God cares about your family.

Regardless of culture or socio-economic status, research shows overall positive effects of marriage on a couple’s health and wealth.

Most boys enter healthy manhood with the help of a “point man” — someone who leads the way and offers support through the trials of life.

A new report from the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) examines a large and diverse array of health behaviors of high school students classified by their sexual activity. There are two major conclusions from the report.

While the Centers for Disease Control states that “(LGBTQ) youth are happy and thrive during their adolescent years,” their own data from tells a different story.

How should we feel about our world population at 7 billion?

A Brief Explanation.

Glenn Stanton, Focus on the Family’s Director of Family Formation Studies, discusses the benefits of marriage and describes the negative consequences of couples living together before getting married – not only for couples who engage in that practice and their children, but society as a whole.

Marriages formed today have about a 41 to 43 percent chance of ending in divorce.

Strong and reliable research show this widely reported “fact” is far from it.

A new study from Australia claims to say kids do better with same-sex parents. Is it true?

An Annotated Bibliography.

What empowers women more than anything else? You might be surprised.

Out-of-wedlock births have taken a marked and sustained decline of late.

Many are quite pessimistic that today’s parents will be able to pass on lasting faith to their children.

The sustainability of humankind’s oldest institution, the family & the fount of fertility, nurturance, and human capital & is now an open question.

A central question regarding same-sex parenting is how it might impact the sexual orientation and identification of children raised in such homes.

A serious topic like is drastically deserving of more careful, less partisan research.

Given the difference in married and single men’s health outcomes, it appears — not surprisingly — that wives are more powerful in changing grown men’s behavior than even their own mothers.

Many studies have shown that married adults have a greater likelihood of living longer than their unmarried counterparts.

Couples who regularly practice any combination of serious religious behaviors and attitudes enjoy significantly lower divorce rates.

USA Today: Same-sex couples can be effective parents, researchers find.

An overview of current research on mom/dad families as compared to same-sex homes.

Does a woman really become strong and liberated by submitting herself to the rules of the male sexual market?

Students of the family must consider and appreciate how marriage operates as a formative institution.

Pew Study: Nearly 40% say marriage is becoming obsolete.

Infidelity is not growing among marriages like one might be led to believe from the proliferation of such high-profile cases.

An analysis of three new articles on the status on men in society today.

Family is the first institution God gave humanity. No surprise then that it is the best mechanism for improving human thriving and the establishment of justice.

What is the health of marriage in America today?

There was a great flurry of news last week about an increase for the second consecutive year in teen births.

Fathers are just as essential to healthy child development as mothers. Psychology Today explained, “Fatherhood turns out to be a complex and unique phenomenon with huge consequences for the emotional and intellectual growth of children.””Shuttle Diplom …

Christians have a far more beautiful story to tell about the glorious nature of human sexuality than most imagine.

Sex is one of the biggest somethings of all time in more fabulous ways than most people appreciate.