This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John Rustin welcomes North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby to discuss his work in Ukraine, the American Constitution, and America's 250th anniversary. 

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Aubree Adams, Director of Every Brain Matters, to discuss the how her family was harmed by marijuana and what parents and legislators need to know to protect others. 

Learn more about Every Brain Matters

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Luke Healy, an Ambassador for Independent Women, to discuss his experience being pulled into transgender ideology as a child and his experience as a detransitioner. 

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, NC Family's Mitch Prosser and Adamo Manfra take a deep dive into marriage and the role that it plays in building strong families, communities, and even a strong nation.

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 Spiritual Biography.

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 accountable for pushing her down this path. 

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 David Closson, the Director of the Center for Biblical Worldview at the Family Research Council, to discuss his book Life After Roe: Equipping Christians in the Fight for Life Today.

Learn more about the book: https://www.davidclosson.com/post/life-after-roe-equipping-christians-in-the-fight-for-life-today

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.

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Brad Wilcox to discuss the importance of marriage and his new book, Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization. 

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Danielle Pimentel, Policy Counsel at Americans United for Life (AUL), to discuss AUL's Annual Life List and how North Carolina ranks compared to other states.

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Christy Stutzman, author of The Spiritual Price of Political Silence, to discuss why and how Christians should engage in politics. 

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Reverend Mark Perko and MiRandi Chewning to discuss Deep Creek Christian Academy, the school that they run through their church in rural North Carolina.

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes John Amanchukwu, a pastor at the Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh, North Carolina, to discuss his book Eraced: Uncovering the Lies of Critical Race Theory and Abortion.

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Tonya Baker Nelson, Founder and CEO of Hand of Hope Pregnancy Centers, to discuss the new coffee shop she is opening this spring. 

You can learn more about Hand of Hope Pregnancy Centers here. 

This week on Family Policy Matters, we are re-airing a show from January 2023, where host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Erica Komisar to discuss ways that we can help adolescents navigate the mental health crisis that is wreaking havoc on our country. Erica is a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst, and parent guidance expert.  

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Danny Funt, a reporter and author of the book Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling, to discuss the increasing dangers that have come with the rapid proliferation of sports gambling. 

Learn more about Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling:https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Everybody-Loses/Danny-Funt/9781668062029

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes the staff at NC Family to discuss everything from the best book they read this year to what they're looking forward to in 2024.

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Michael Foley, author of the new book Why We Kiss Under the Mistletoe: Christmas Traditions Explained, to discuss some of our favorite Christmas traditions and the history behind them. 

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Jenna Robinson, President of The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, to discuss new model legislation that would revamp general education courses at public universities to better prepare college students for their adult lives.

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Dr. Neil Shenvi and Dr. Pat Sawyer, authors of the book Critical Dilemma: The Rise of Critical Theories and Social Justice Ideology―Implications for the Church and Society, to discuss how Christians should respond to the rise of critical race theory. 

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Monica Swanson, author of Raising Amazing: Bringing Up Kids Who Love God, Like Their Family, and Do the Dishes without Being Asked, to discuss some practical ways that parents can raise kids with character.

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Dr. Lynn Wogamon, author of Standing for God in America: How Christians Can Make a Difference in Today's Society, to discuss what the Bible says about being an engaged citizen and impacting the world around us in a positive way. 

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Clare Morell, Director of the Ethics and Public Policy Center's Technology and Human Flourishing Project, to discuss how cell phones and social media are harming children and what we can do about it. 

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Nancy Nelson, the founder of NCSU Free Moms, to discuss the organization and the work that they do loving on kids at NC State University.

This week at Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs Samuel James, author of the new book Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age, to discuss the role of technology in a Christian's life.

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Josie, a parent of a transgender-identifying child and co-editor of the new book Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans: Tales from the Home Front in the Fight to Save Our Kids. Josie shares what she has learned in her experience with a transgender-identifying child and her experience publishing the stories of other parents in similar situations. 

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Danny Funt, a reporter and author of the book Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling, to discuss the increasing dangers that have come with the rapid proliferation of sports gambling. 

Learn more about Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Everybody-Loses/Danny-Funt/9781668062029

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Joseph Backholm, Senior Fellow for Biblical Worldview at the Family Research Council, to discuss the importance of having a biblical worldview and how we can cultivate one.

This week on Family Policy Matters, NC Family President John Rustin welcomes NC Family's Sharon Sullivan and Jere Royall to recap the highs and lows of North Carolina's 2023 Legislative Session, including pro-life protections, fairness for women's sports, gambling legalization, and more.

This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Liz Boulware and Laura Gillion, leaders in the organization Braver Angels, to discuss the organization and the benefits of bringing together individuals from both sides of the political aisle.