We did see this coming. With relentless energy, the revolutionaries have bulldozed through the culture, breaking down one moral barrier after another—...
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The New York Times Magazine is often the most interesting section of each Sunday's edition, and often the most controversial as well. The May 9, 2010 edition of the magazine certainly proves the point with its cover article, "The Moral Life of Babies ...
Uwe and Hannelore Romeike may have been considered outside the norms of civil society in their native Germany, but not in Morristown, Tennessee, where they and their five children now live. The Romeike’s were banned from homeschooling in Germany and ...
What makes gifted children special and unique, setting them apart from their peers? Jennifer Senior, writing for New York Magazine, has published a fascinating piece on the myth of gifted children. She asks the question, can the entire future of a ...
What is that makes a boy become a man? Is it the accoutrements he purchases or the people he associates with? While some external factors make a difference in rearing a young man, boys don’t become men by dousing themselves with strong smelling deo ...
Whatever happened to being seen but not heard? Diana West asks that question in a recent essay, noting that there has been a massive shift in Western culture away from adult authority and toward the "wise child." All around us are signs that authorit ...
New research reveals that children are always digitally on. The Kaiser Family Foundation has just released a new study on the online lives of children and teenagers, and the statistics are simply astounding. America's children and teenagers are now ...
Does age matter when dealing with moral accountability? Governments are often faced with deciding how society should punish both the young and the old for wrongs they have committed. The conversation becomes very difficult when dealing with the cas ...
Clothing makes a statement, and if The New York Times is any indicator of where the culture is headed, clothing is speaking loudly. According to a recent article by Jan Hoffman, high schools are forced to tackle gender issues of a new magnitude: boy ...
Hilary Stout of the New York Times has recently written a piece on parenting titled “For Some Parents, Shouting is the New Spanking.” Why has shouting at children become a common form of discipline for parents? When shouting becomes the norm, parents ...
Banned Books Week is this week in America, trying to draw attention to the dangers of limiting access to all types of information. But are books really being banned in America? Certainly not. The American Library Association’s problem actually fal ...