A report submitted to next week’s meeting of the American Medical Association recommends that “video game addiction” be added to the manual used for psychiatric diagnoses. On today’s program, Dr. Mohler considers what this says about families, entertainment, and the therapeutic culture in which we live.

Our greeting cards betray us. According to Hallmark, Americans gave approximately 103 million Father’s Day cards this past weekend, but only half of those were given to fathers. As Heather MacDonald reports in City Journal, Hallmark’s 2007 line of over 800 different Father’s Day cards provides a “barometer of social breakdown.”

As so many women have moved into the marketplace, employment has taken the front seat as marriage and motherhood have been forced to move to the rear. Then, after spending their years of peak fertility in the workplace, many women decide that they want children after they reach the age of 40.

A recent episode of ABC’s 20/20 followed three families with children who claim to be transgender. And in an increasingly morally confused age, Christians are the people who must think through issues of gender and identity with sensitivity, love and uncompromising biblical fidelity.

What do teenagers fear most? It’s not global warming. A newly-released survey from New America Media suggests that American teenagers see the breakdown of the family as the most severe threat to their generation.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad played the media like a musical instrument, greeting the captives just prior to their release. The Muslim world loved it. Tragically, the most damaging element of Ahmadinejad’s media triumph was handed to him by the Royal Navy in the person of Leading Seaman Faye Turney, the only woman among the captives…