Raising boys for fun and profit
There are things parents can do to help their sons make the leap from stumbling boyhood to manhood. Okay, I was kidding about the fun. And, I was lying about…
The spiritual world of children
News that the spiritual welfare of young children is being neglected somewhere will not surprise anyone, but the evidence adduced by a British researcher produced an eye-catching headline in the…
Parenting pathways
If your parents were negative and harsh with you growing up, that’s the way you will be with your kids. And if they were positive and affectionate, well, lucky for…
The UN’s sex-ed plan for kids
Some years ago I saw a cartoon whose subject becomes more real by the day. It showed a Brave-New-Wold nursery in which newborns were being instructed via a loudspeaker: “Today…
Calling all monogamous men
Family scholar Patrick Fagan has come up with an elegant schema contrasting “monogamous” culture with other kinds of sexual culture which he calls, collectively, “polyamorous”. Speaking at the World Congress…
Ted Kennedy’s ambiguous legacy
For America’s most famous Catholic, morality and politics had little to do with each other. Today Massachusetts mourns its Lion of the Senate, Ted Kennedy. At Dunkin Donuts, the…
The Democrats after Kennedy
What Obama must now do is to articulate a clear, distinct course of policy. The first time I met him, on a boat trip along the coast in Florida…
All shall be poor
How today’s sexual narcissists insist on propagating their dreary values. A hot new must-read book making the rounds is Frenchwoman Corinne Maier’s No Kids: Forty Good Reasons Not To…
Decline of traditional media
Should the threat to traditional media from the internet really be a cause for concern? The new social media — blogging, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and YouTube are current faves —…
Abstinence, yes, but what about marriage?
The abstinence-until-marriage movement in the United States has been a positive and courageous response to the sexual revolution. As the basis for sex education it has met with determined opposition…
Rag trade withdraws sexy baby clothes
It is almost beyond belief what some companies will try to get away with in the line of exploiting children. Australian clothing group Cotton On has withdrawn baby clothes with…
Are girls risking death now to avoid cervical cancer?
The vaccine promoted as a safeguard for girls against developing cervical cancer later in life has been linked with at least 20 deaths in the United States and hundreds…