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Betsy Hart biography
Betsy Hart is a nationally syndicated columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service. Her column on cultural and family issues, "From the Hart," is distributed …
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Not all women want to climb the corporate ladder
Women often freely choose to say “no, thanks,” sometimes after they’ve gotten to the top itself (at work). And that’s a problem, say these authors. But a problem for whom?
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The commencement speech you won’t hear
BETSY HART: I admired Steve Jobs and love my Mac products as much as the next person. But throughout this [commencement] speech, Jobs was almost an avatar for the extreme individualism that has come to rule our age and, I would argue, leads to misery more than contentment.
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Why Betsy Hart hates this TV commercial
BETSY HART: This commercial, and the culture it represents, is so pathetic. It’s not that it depicts reality. It’s that it’s depicting a “reality” that isn’t real at all.
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Big difference between what we want and truly need
How often are we guilty in our relationships of turning our desires into our needs? I heard a pastor friend speak wisely about this very thing lately in connection to our relationship with God.
Married man tells the story of his affair
I hadn’t yet shared a story of a man who had been involved in an affair — in this case, one who almost lost his decades-long marriage over it. Meet “Mike.” Mike wrote me a beautiful letter after he saw my most recent column on “Denise.” I receive many such notes from people kindly sharing their stories with me, and I always appreciate them., but this one stood out.
Women ask for too much and settle for too little
What so few women seem to insist upon, though, is a real suitor. A good man wants the woman he loves to know that she is wanted. Whether or not there are flowers or love notes involved, it will simply be natural for him to make sure she is secure in his honest intentions of marriage for her.
After an affair, a marriage heals
It’s been a little over a year now since my friend “Denise” (not her real name) discovered her husband’s longstanding infidelity. Married over 20 years with children still at home, she experienced the betrayal like one might a hurricane. But more than a year later, she and her husband are still standing. And they are doing it together.
Hollywood offers mythical version of childbirth
It continues to amaze me that women in the Western world have babies at all today. Why? Because of the excruciatingly painful — and very loud — way that childbirth is almost always portrayed by Hollywood.
The perfect soul mate doesn’t exist
Imagine if we thought of our marriages with the same sense of purpose, self-sacrifice, commitment and openness to the unexpected that we typically do our relationships with our kids. We might then find a whole new — only this time real — kind of soul mate in a spouse.
Suitor beats boyfriend for marriage-bound
I propose that this be the year for adult, marriage-minded women to ditch the meaningless term “boyfriend.” Rather, I suggest resurrecting the old-fashioned term “suitor.”
Ignoring a child’s tantrum won’t work for everyone
This particular column is not about whether ignoring children’s bad behavior gets at the heart of the issue at all. The question for me: Where in the world are these researchers finding parents who can do this over time?
When the toy-buying years come to an end
BETSY HART: I decided to find out what I may be missing now that my kids have moved on fully to the high-end-electronics (and makeup/clothes) years.
Go ahead; feel free to wish others a heartfelt ‘Merry Christmas’
BETSY HART: The war on the word Christmas, in an attempt to be political correct is just plain silly.
Are older women really less ambitious?
BETSY HART: Could it be that older women are tiring of the rat race known as the work world? A recent poll in More magazine seems to indicate that.
Lamenting the demise of manliness in America
BETSY HART: The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood (Thomas Nelson, $34.99) by Bill Bennett is filled with accounts of what it means to be a man in six distinct areas: in war, at work, in play, in the political world, with women and children, and in prayer and reflection.
Mother-in-law stereotypes don’t always ring true
BETSY HART: Mothers-in-law. They are the stuff of legend. And of situation comedies. Who can ever forget Endora on “Bewitched” or countless other such stock characters? Letters to advice columnists are filled with plaintive cries, primarily from wives, asking what to do about the “difficult” mother of their spouse. The stereotype of the overbearing, meddling mother-in-law translates across cultures.
Taking the guidance of a helping hand
“ It’s not the long walk home that will change this heart / But the welcome I receive at the restart.” — “Roll Away Your Stone,” by Mumford and Sons I often say “It takes a parent” to raise a child. Ironically, that was …
Making demands and expecting change right now doesn’t work in the grown-up world
BETSY HART: Right now, right now, right now! That’s the mantra of everyone these days, or so it seems.
Celibacy used in a whole new way
Christopher Yuan and his mother Angela have co-written a gripping and gritty story, Out Of A Far Country: A gay son’s journey to God. A broken mother’s search for hope. Here they take turns authoring chapters and chronicling from their different perspectives his journey through …
Too many are missing out on marriage
A young single friend mentioned recently that marriage, that most intimate of human relationships, sounds like “work,” so why bother? It seems to me a lot of people, young and old, are asking exactly that. It’s likely one reason why marriage rates around the world …
