What’s driving earlier puberty in girls?
Evidence that girls are reaching puberty as early as seven years of age is in the news this week following the publication of an article in the journal Paediatrics. It…
THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS IDEA
We have asked several of our contributors to respond to a question in our occasional series of forums. This time the question is: What is the world’s most dangerous idea?…
Flawed evidence about gay marriage
In one sense, Judge Walker can’t be blamed for his decision since he was provided a great deal of inaccurate and incomplete information through the trial process. I hope that…
Girls On The Edge
American family doctor turned writer Leonard Sax talks in his latest book about what’s driving the new crisis for girls. When Leonard Sax, doctor, psychologist and promoter of single sex…
Prop 8 judge displays ignorance of marriage
Jennifer Roback Morse, foundress and president of the Ruth Institute, laments the overturn of Proposition 8 by Judge Vaughn Walker, who is widely reported to be g*y. The Ruth Institute…
Asia’s fragile families lead to parent-child suicides
A recent article in Time magazine highlights a rising number of suicides involving a parent and child in Hong Kong. These “filicide-suicides” are not a new phenomenon in East Asia,…
Who can heal a guilty conscience?
We are familiar with the idea that the psychiatrist’s couch has taken over from the confessional in dealing with mental or spiritual distress. And yet, says says psychiatrist Aaron Kheriaty,…
Easter is always about dying and rising
The Resurrection, 1596-1600Easter is always about death and resurrection – and down the centuries countless people must have applied its message to their own lives, their own circumstances. I have…
You’re teaching my child what?
A psychatrist exposes the harm done to children in the name of sex education. The following is an interview with Miriam Grossman, MD, author of the recently-released You’re teaching…
A marriage proposal
Leading marriage scholars have come up with an index for monitoring the health of marriage in society. Spring has sprung in the southern hemisphere and the wedding season is…
Raining on their parade
Who is responsible for China’s infamous one-child policy? Surprisingly, it is not 60 years of Communist rule. Today China celebrates the 60th anniversary of Communist Party rule. The Party…
Russia looks to its religious culture
The Orthodox Church has won its battle to make religious education compulsory in schools, but secularists have won concessions too. Patriarch Kirill’s public triumph in Ukraine in July was…