A new book has debunked many evangelical Christian parenting methods, including corporal punishment, arguing that they are not as biblically grounded or effective as their proponents claim. In The ...

I can still hear my mom’s sewing machine. The gentle hum as she worked, drinking black coffee, listening to Christian radio. I was a child in the 1980s, growing up Southern Baptist in a small Texas ...

(RNS) — In ‘The Myth of Good Christian Parenting,’ authors Marissa Franks Burt and Kelsey Kramer McGinnis argue that these methods aren’t as biblical or effective as their purveyors would have ...

Parenting books—even Christian ones—capitalize on fear and longing, sometimes making promises that don’t hold true. Professor Harold Hill had to create a problem to sell a solution. The shifty ...

Today’s resources aim to offer reassurance instead of adding to the weight parents already feel. A majority of mothers with kids at home today—69 percent in a new survey from Barna Group—say they ...

(RNS) — When former “Bachelor” contestant Madison Prewett Troutt announced this summer that she and her husband would be disciplining their daughter by spanking, many of the Christian influencer’s 1.8 ...