Love comes first in childraising

"ONLY 25 per cent of parents think it is important to teach their children "respect for authority", a survey shows.
The survey, which asked parents which values they considered most important in raising their children, also found only 3 per cent valued religion.
Parents rated love and affection as the most important family value, with more than four in five placing it first.
TV channel Nick Jr polled more than 1,000 parents for the survey.
Findings showed younger parents are less likely to be disciplinarians than their older counterparts.
They also take a much keener interest in their children's education.
One in five 16-24-year-olds said academic achievement was a top priority, while only 3.5 per cent of 55-year-olds said the same."

Coventry Telegraph, Sep 20 2007

Cosmopolitan Religious-Right Groups Travel to Europe to Fight Gay Marriage, Abortion

""[T]he cultural battle has gone international," declared Allan Carlson, president of the Illinois-based Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society. "The American religious right, instead of being isolationist, has in fact gone global." Indeed, representatives from leading far-right groups – including American Family Association, Concerned Women For America, the Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, the Heritage Foundation and the Discovery Institute (advocate of "Intelligent Design" creationism) – are taking a field trip to Poland this weekend for the Howard Center's fourth World Congress of Families."

Rightwingwatch.org, May 10, 2007

See also RHRealityCheck.org and "Showed pictures of battered foetuses"