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The Briefing 04-30-13

1. Overwhelming celebration of homosexuality and marginalization of all who disagree Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now, Sports Illustrated (Jason Collins with Franz Lidz)   ESPN’s Chris Broussard clarifies his views on Ja ...

April 30, 2013

The Briefing 04-11-13

Story 1 - The new arguments for gay marriage  - now conservative and good for kids? A Conservative Case for Gay Marriage, Wall Street Journal (Bret Stephens) About the Children, New York Times (Bill Keller) Marriage: evolution truly in the ...

April 11, 2013

The Briefing 04-05-13

Story 1 - What should happen to living baby after botched abortion? A haunting moment of clarity. 'After-birth abortion': a moment of clarity in the abortion debate, Baptist Press (James A. Smith Sr) Killing babies no different from abortion, e ...

April 5, 2013

The Emergence of Digital Childhood — Is This Really Wise?

The easiest way to infuriate the young is to lean into nostalgia. Nevertheless, it's hard not to be nostalgic for a childhood in which the basic equipment for elementary school was pretty much limited to notebooks, pencils, and an occasional ruler. T ...

November 30, 2011

In the Danger Zone: Raising Our Children in the Age of the Screen

We are now the people of the screen. We are surrounded by screens, monitors, and other flickering devices, and each demands our attention. What began with the television has now spread to a host of other technologies. Our minds are increasingly shape ...

October 21, 2011

The Myth of the Genderless Baby

Back in the nineteenth century, the British people were introduced to a fairy tale about "water babies" through a story written by Rev. Charles Kingsley. The water babies entered folklore, and generations of British children imagined the water babies ...

May 24, 2011

The Briefing

Fights brew on abortion rights... Who's the Extremist Now?... Puberty too soon... Parents decry marketers who push sexuality on little girls... Why Do We Let Them Dress Like That?... Fighting Teenage Pregnancy With MTV Stars as Exhibit A ...

April 14, 2011

The Misplaced Aims of the Tiger Mother

Are Chinese mothers superior? Amy Chua clearly believes so, and her argument has just as clearly caught the attention of the American public. Chua's book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, has made The New York Times bestseller list for the past ten w ...

March 29, 2011

The Global Scandal of “The Global Baby”

The Wall Street Journal blows the cover off the international trade in babies and reproductive technologies this week, as reporters Tamara Audi and Arlene Chang tell of the emergence of a market that assembles the "global baby." Just consider the sh ...

December 16, 2010

The Retreat from Marriage — A Recipe for Disaster

If you were determined to consign a population to poverty and any number of social pathologies, how might you do it? If your design is to extend the effects of these pathologies and pains to successive generations, what might be your plan? The answer ...

December 7, 2010

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