Jenet Jacob Erickson

Perspective

Perspective: Some say my religion is ‘terrible’ for women. Research says otherwise

As a scholar and woman of faith, I know the good that religion offers.

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

Perspective

Perspective: Roe was supposed to liberate women. Here’s what really happened

With abortion on demand, cohabitation, single parenthood and child poverty have increased.

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

Opinion

Casting stones in abortion debate is wrong, but so is accepting abortion’s ‘necessity’

Genuine compassion demands that we see mother and child together, addressing the challenges facing the mother while honoring the developing life she carries.

By Daniel Frost and Jenet Jacob Erickson

Opinion

#GiveThanks for the Pilgrims of 1620

There is a reason that 400 years later we continue to honor and remember our Pilgrim forbearers.

By Jenet Jacob Erickson and Michael Erickson

Opinion

America has a legacy of loving its enemies. Don’t forget that now

With political opponents vilified in cataclysmic terms, talk of love may seem naïve, even treacherous

By Michael Erickson and Jenet Jacob Erickson

Opinion

Lessons from a pandemic: A letter to my children

Someday, you will tell your children about the year of the coronavirus. It has been filled with upheaval, uncertainty, suffering and strife. But it has also been instructive.

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

Opinion

Father’s Day honors the transformative gift of fatherhood — which makes them true heroes

Fathers’ Day also honors the transformative gift of fatherhood in men’s lives, and how it invites the development and change that makes them true heroes.

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

Opinion

Mother’s Day is a celebration of vulnerability, brokenness and love

For most of us, Mother’s Day evokes complex feelings. What it celebrates, though, is a gift worth sharing.

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

Opinion

One blessing of coronavirus quarantine: Enforced family time

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

A new study from researchers based at the University of Kansas looked into whether or flirting is real.

Opinion

Guest opinion: Changing our sexual culture starts with a focus on morality

By Daniel Frost and Jenet Jacob Erickson

Opinion

Erickson: More women are in the workforce than men. Should we celebrate or be concerned?

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

Opinion

Ebeneezer Scrooge and our current culture of loneliness

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

Opinion

America’s leaders need to hear our prayers, and we need to hear America’s history

While America’s enemies abroad are real, there is an increasing sense that the greatest danger to our Republic is the slow, corrosive weakening from within

By Michael Erickson and Jenet Jacob Erickson

Opinion

Why shame a mother for wanting to be a mother?

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

Opinion

Jenet Erickson: To change the future, children need history

A study of history deepens our sense of connection and identity because it requires us to acknowledge our dependence on the work, sacrifices and devotion of others.

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

Findings from the World Family Map, as well as previous research, found that for women, the happiest marriages were those in which both spouses shared more traditional views about marriage and attended church together.

Opinion

Jenet Erickson: No, religious women are not brainwashed

The World Family Map survey, along with previous research, found that for women, the happiest marriages were those in which both spouses shared more traditional views about marriage and attended church together.

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

What do we do when it appears we have created a culture that sabotages the capacity to experience those deepest sources of meaning and happiness?

Opinion

Jenet Erickson: Current culture sabotages the capacity for happiness

What do we do when it appears we have created a culture that sabotages the capacity to experience those deepest sources of meaning and happiness?

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

Children need to hear and experience over and over again the truths, habits and traits of character that will enable them to become masters of themselves, rather than slaves to their desires.

Opinion

Jenet Erickson: Children depend on us to learn self-mastery

Anxious to make sure we don’t handicap our children emotionally in a world where anxiety and depression seem to be their destiny, we work at being their “emotion coaches.”

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

People tour the Christmas lights near Temple Square in Salt Lake City on Friday, Nov. 25, 2016.

Opinion

Jenet Erickson: Children need Christmas, but so do we

The truth is children do need Christmas. But not for the reasons they may be led by a hyper-consumerist culture to believe.

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

We shout because we don’t feel heard. If whispering falls on deaf ears, then raising our voices will get our point across, or so the fallacy goes.

Opinion

Jenet Erickson: Contempt is keeping us from becoming ‘a more perfect union’

We must resist the pull toward contempt, the pull to assume that those who see things differently must either be “stupid” or “evil.”

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2017, file photo, a syringe loaded with a dose of CBD oil is shown in a research laboratory at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colo.

Opinion

Michael and Jenet Erickson: Legalize medical marijuana, the Utah way

Here are five likely scenarios to unfold if Prop 2 passes.

By Michael Erickson and Jenet Jacob Erickson

Anti-abortion and abortion activists stand side by side in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, in Washington, Monday, Jan. 24, 2011, during a rally against Roe v. Wade on the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision.

Opinion

Jenet Erickson: Abortion’s culture is antithetical to women’s equality

Whether abortion means terminating a developing life is no longer debated. That is clear. The debate now centers on what abortion means for women.

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

Fathers are more likely to encourage children in risk-taking and pursuing opportunities that facilitate educational and occupational achievement. And fathers typically encourage children in developing independence and finding solutions to their problems.

Opinion

Jenet Erickson: Rediscovering the indispensable role of fathers

This tragic loss of fatherhood had one silver lining. We were forced to learn how important the nurturing of fathers is in the lives of children.

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

Brene Brown insightfully writes, “The real question for parents should be: Are you engaged? Are you paying attention? If so, plan to make lots of mistakes and bad decisions.”

Opinion

Jenet Erickson: Successful mothers grow from failure to failure

I knew mothers matter. I was just not prepared for how often I’d fail at it.

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

According to Harvard sociologist Carle Zimmerman, the defining feature of civilizations at their peak of creativity and progress was their orientation to children, specifically the bearing and nurturing of children within families.

Opinion

We need children as much as they need us

Children are more than just human capital. The ultimate beneficiary of children is society itself.

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

Largely ignored in the exposés of Hollywood harassers is the way in which they use nudity and sexual scenes in their films to perpetrate their harassment.

Opinion

Michael and Jenet Erickson: #TimesUp for Hollywood’s sexual addiction

Unless that national dialogue begins to address Hollywood’s broader addiction to objectification and sexualization, we risk perpetuating many of the far-reaching effects of Hollywood’s sexual harassment.

By Michael Erickson and Jenet Jacob Erickson

Our cultural embrace of individualism has now made it difficult to accept “the ideal of self-denial” that might be implied by terms like commitment and sacrifice. Once heralded as a high virtue, today “sacrifice” is often feared to be a “personality defec

Opinion

Can commitment and sacrifice survive a culture of cheap sex?

Abandoning norms of sexual behavior held for millennia has robbed men and women of the social structures essential to guide them toward the “sacrifice” and devotion that actually begets love.

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

FILE"”My experience with our daughter teaches me that the capacity to engage “with the other,” to withhold judgment and to show empathy is learned first, and practiced best, at home.

Opinion

Jenet Erickson: Recognizing and respecting the humanity in the souls all around us

My experience with our daughter teaches me that the capacity to engage “with the other,” to withhold judgment and to show empathy is learned first, and practiced best, at home.

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

Children, then, are not only a compass for parents, but for society as a whole. For without that precious but fragile life there is no future society.

Opinion

My view: Children are a compass for parents and society as a whole

Children, then, are not only a compass for parents, but for society as a whole. For without that precious but fragile life there is no future society.

By Jenet Jacob Erickson

In everything from the daily rituals of family dinner and bedtime stories to the annual rituals of birthday traditions and holiday celebrations, we enact the family connection that binds us and the meaning that connection holds in our lives.

Opinion

Jenet Erickson: Family rituals bind hearts and homes together

In everything from the daily rituals of family dinner and bedtime stories to the annual rituals of birthday traditions and holiday celebrations, we enact the family connection that binds us and the meaning that connection holds in our lives.

By Jenet Jacob Erickson