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Sommers: ‘The Boys at the Back’
At the NYT Opinionator blog, Christina Hoff Sommers writes: …A few decades ago, when we realized that girls languished behind boys in math and science, we mounted a concerted effort to give them more...
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‘DNA Dads’
A new comedy, Seeds, debuts in Canada next week: Toronto-native Adam Korson plays Harry, a 30ish bachelor bartender who doesn’t quite live up to the Princeton resume he submitted to the clinic where...
View Article“I was afraid to die alone…….I wanted someone to lean on in my old age. I...
This article, from the New York Times this morning, tells the story of a group of women who have lived for 30 years as a community in a village in northern Vietnam. “The American War,” as it is called...
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Just Say ‘Non’
On Friday I had the pleasure of nipping into a French café for lunch with a special friend and her gorgeous little baby, then going with her to our public library for a lecture by former Wall Street...
View ArticleHoney, you’d never guess what happened today….
It started out like all the stories of its kind that we New Yorkers get used to, so sad and cold, it hurts your bones: August 29, 2000 A newborn boy was found abandoned on a subway platform at 14th...
View ArticleTwo Articles Offer Food for Thought on Same-Sex Families
Two items caught my attention while I was going through my RSS feeds yesterday. The first (via Feministing) was news of a new study released in the UK that looked at 130 couples raising adoptive — 49...
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It’s Not Just About Marriage Law
April DeBoer (second from left) sits with her adopted daughter Ryanne, 3, and Jayne Rowse and her adopted sons Jacob, 3, and Nolan, 4, at their home in Hazel Park, Mich., on Tuesday. (caption by NPR)...
View ArticleFinnish Educational Success: Public Schools, No Standardized Testing, and Equity
This piece from The Atlantic by Anu Partanen, “What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success” caught my eye last week. I am perennially fascinated by what our debates about education and...
View ArticleA Review of the What is Parenthood? Symposium
Dr. Gregory Popcak at Patheos offers a review of the What is Parenthood? Symposium using Professor Laura Rosenbury’s piece as a springboard to thinking about how to keep children the focus of our...
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“Look for the Helpers”
In the wake of yesterday’s tragedy in Boston, Huffington Post Parents ran this article, which they had previously run following the Newtown School shootings, quoting the incomparable Fred Rogers on...
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