NC Family's Family Policy Matters

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Dr. Bill Donohue, president of Catholic League and author of  Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of Our Moral Crisis, to discuss why it is so important for Christians to be engaged in the culture around them.   

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Patrick T. Brown, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, to discuss America's aging population and the impacts that could have on the pro-life movement and public policy. 

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Dr. Leonard Sax, a practicing physician and a New York Times bestselling author, to discuss how social media is impacting kids and how parents can mitigate its effects. 

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Matt Sharp, Senior Counsel and Director of the Center for Public Policy at Alliance Defending Freedom, to discuss the legal battle that is underway to protect women's and parental rights from the Biden Administration's changes to Title IX.

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Lyman Stone, Research Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, to discuss America's falling fertility rates what we can do to fix them. 

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Governor Scott Walker, President of Young America's Foundation, to discuss the importance of teaching America's foundational values and the significance of our independence. 

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Michael Graham, Program Director for The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, to discuss what is known as the "great dechurching" and how Christians should respond. 

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Angela Sullivan, a North Carolina mom of four, to discuss how she has been able to pursue higher education and a medical career after an unplanned pregnancy at the age of eighteen.

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Luke Niforatos, the Executive Vice President of Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM), to disucss attempts to legalize marijuana and the dangerous impacts that could have. 

This week on Family Policy Matters, hear Part 2 of Katy Faust's keynote address at NC Family's 2024 Raleigh Dinner. Katy Faust is the founder and president of Them Before Us, and speaks on the critical responsibility that Christians have to protect children.

This week on Family Policy Matters, hear Part 1 of Katy Faust's keynote address at NC Family's 2024 Raleigh Dinner. Katy Faust is the founder and president of Them Before Us, and speaks on the critical responsibility that Christians have to protect children.   

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Aaron Renn, Senior Fellow at American Reformer and the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, to discuss how society's view of Christianity has declined in the United States and how people of faith can live in the new anti-Christian culture. 

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Carter Satterfield, a swimmer at Roanoke College, to discuss her experience swimming with a transgender-identifying male and how that prompted her to join the lawsuit against the NCAA.

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Kylee Alons, a former swimmer at NC State University, to discuss Kylee's experience swimming against Lia Thomas and why that prompted her to join the lawsuit against the NCAA. 

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Dr. Holly Ordway to discuss the growing indifference to religion and how stories and literature can be used to share the Gospel. Dr. Ordway is the visiting Professor of Apologetics at Houston Christian University, the Professor of Faith and Culture at the Word On Fire Institute, and the author of the book Tolkien's Faith: A Spi...

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes back Mike Long, President of Parents for Educational Freedom North Carolina, to discuss North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship and the impact that it has. 

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Josh Payne, attorney and co-founder of Campbell Miller Payne, PLLC, to discuss Prisha Mosley's legal case. Prisha is a North Carolina citizen who was pushed to pursue so-called gender-affirming care as a teenager, including cross-sex hormones and surgery. She has now detransitioned and is seeking to hold her medical team accoun...

This week on  Family Policy Matters , we are re-airing a show from June, 2020 where host Traci DeVette Griggs sits down again with Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse of The Ruth Institute to discuss the issue of surrogacy. Dr. Morse shares how surrogacy ignores the rights of the child, and often leads down a dangerous path to the commodification of both children and women.

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Mary Szoch, Director of the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council, to discuss a new report that explored perinatal hospice as an alternative for babies with a prenatal diagnosis of a life-limiting medical condition.    

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Adam Holz, Director at Plugged In and co-author of Becoming a Screen-Savvy Family: How to Navigate a Media-Saturated World--And Why We Should,  to discuss how parents can create healthy media habits for themselves and their children.

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Timothy Carney, author of Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be , to discuss how America has created an increasingly family-unfriendly culture and what parents can do to combat it. 

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Joshua Arnold, Senior Writer at The Washington Stand, to discuss four biblical principles to inform a Christian approach to immigration. 

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Nancy Pearcey, a professor and author of the book  The Toxic War on Masculinity,  to discuss the many cultural challenges that men are facing today. The Toxic War on Masculinity : https://www.amazon.com/Toxic-War-Masculinity-Christianity-Reconciles/dp/0801075734

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Dr. George Barna, author of  Raising Spiritual Champions,  to discuss why it is critical for parents to instill a biblical worldview in their children and some tips for how they can do so. 

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Kallie Fell, Executive Director of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network (CBC Network), to discuss the CBC Network's new documentary and book and how they share the stories of those most hurt by the transgender movement.