Parents wonder if cancer jabs are worth the risk
Debate over vaccinating girls against the human papillomavirus to prevent cervical cancer is running hot in Britain after a 14-year-old schoolgirl died and an older teen developed epileptic seizures and…
Working mums have less healthy kids
Last night on New Zealand television the British female lead of the live show Mamma Mia! joked about how she went to work to get away from her four young…
China’s stolen babies
Girl babies adopted by American and other overseas couples from orphanages in China in recent years may have been forcibly taken from their parents, not abandoned, as the adoptive parents…
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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…