The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake
Source: The Atlantic David Brooks The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure […]
U.S. has world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households
Pew Research Center BY STEPHANIE KRAMER For decades, the share of U.S. children living with a single parent has been rising, accompanied by a decline in marriage rates and a rise in […]
Iraq’s secret sex trade
A BBC Arabic investigation has exposed a secret world of sexual exploitation of children and young women by clerics in Iraq. The practice of temporary marriage, illegal under Iraqi law, […]
I Created a System to Make Sure My Husband and I Divide Household Duties Fairly. Here’s How It Works
Source: Time BY EVE RODSKY Eve Rodsky is the author of Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live). I was just […]
Spouses will no longer be able to contest a divorce following changes to the law
Source: CT At present, husbands and wives are able to challenge an application for divorce that has been initiated by their spouse. That will no longer be the case when the changes come into effect a few months from now in what is the most radical shake-up of British divorce […]
BBC: ‘Muslims don’t date, we marry’
Source: BBC By Sarah Finley Shahzad Younas came up with the idea for Muzmatch while working in the banking sector. The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles about […]
A Tribute By a Son: Happy Hundredth! Abbaji
By Dr. Nasir Gondal, New York My father, Chaudhry Mohammad Aslam, would have been hundred years old today. Born on the day after Armistice, he grew up in British India, got married on the first anniversary of Pakistan’s independence, lived almost all his life in Punjab and died in New […]
Video: Keeping Strife Out of Your Life
We are saving this video in the Muslim Times here as well: Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Joel Osteen has no […]
Fired Catholic philosopher: Pope Francis’ teaching could ‘lead many souls…to hell’
Source: Life Site By Pete Baklinski GRANADA, Spain, September 6, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Renowned Catholic philosopher Dr. Josef Seifert said that a “strict obligation” to serving the Pope and the Church […]
Friday Prayers 14th July 2017 – Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad: Desire for children and their proper upbringing
English Many people write to me requesting prayers for their children and for their upbringing. By the grace of God, majority of Ahmadis are worried for their children. This is a blessing of God for us in this age that we are constantly worried about such matters. Allah has laid […]
‘She terrorises us’: How entitled children are making their parents’ lives hell
The Sydney Morning Herald: by Cosima Marriner & Rachel Browne — “She terrorises us.” That’s how bad it is for Steve Richardson* and his wife when their 17-year-old daughter is at home.Public Service Commissioner John Lloyd says domestic violence victims get all the support they need. Olivia has dropped out of school […]
Video: Reza Aslan On Why America Needs A Muslim ‘Modern Family’
The Muslim Times has a large collection of articles to promote modern Islamic family values. Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor As an American Muslim living in […]
This Is the Number One Mistake Parents Make When Arguing With Kids
Time: How do you deal with out of control kids? The authors of the bestseller How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk have some […]
Arranged marriages happier, claims former High Court family judge
Source: The Telegraph By John Bingham, social affairs editor Arranged marriage could be happier than marrying for love because it removes the pressure to find the “perfect” partner before settling down, […]
Here’s the ideal age gap for a lasting relationship
Source: ET The findings suggested that the larger the age gap, the more likely it is that you and your partner will split up. Here are the chances of breaking up, depending on your age gap: 5 years — 18 per cent 10 years — 39 per cent 20 years — 95 […]
Baby born on Cebu Pacific airplane gets one million air miles
Source: CNN Here’s one kid who’ll probably learn to fly before she can crawl. After being born four hours into a flight from Dubai to Manila, baby girl Haven has been gifted one million air mile points. Haven’s mom went into labor more than five weeks early while flying on an aircraft […]
9 things never to say to your child
Source: TOI Being a parent is difficult and so is coming off as a proud child. It’s only human to give vent to your rage by using harsh words. However, when the recipient of your outrage is your own child, it might have uncertain and unmanageable repercussions. We list 9 […]
Saudi man divorces wife over her love for camel
Manama: A Saudi man divorced his wife after he became convinced she loved her father’s camel than she loved him. The husband and wife were on a visit to her family’s house west of the capital Riyadh when he verbally flirted with her to show how deep his love for […]
A Book to Improve Marital Harmony: Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, an enormously popular book by author John Gray, contains many suggestions for improving relationships between men and women through understanding the communication […]
Family Values: Western Civilization versus Islam
Epigraph: Do they seek a religion other than Allah’s, while to Him submits whosoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and to Him shall they be […]
