Carolyn Moynihan
 Carolyn Moynihan is an Auckland (New Zealand) journalist with a special interest in family issues. She is Deputy Editor of MercatorNet and editor of Family Edge. |
Hollywood cleans up teen movie language
Carolyn Moynihan | 1 Jun 2009
Is it a bit of Harry Potter magic? While profanity is increasing on television and in music lyrics, some Brigham Young University researchers have been pleasantly surprised to discover that it has markedly decreased since the 1980s in movies aimed at teens.
Where's the will to reduce maternal deaths?
Carolyn Moynihan | 29 May 2009
It is easy, when enthusing about family life, to forget that motherhood
is a very risky and often fatal thing for hundreds of thousands of
women in the developing world. Complications of pregnancy and
childbirth kill more than 536,000 women a year, more than half of them
in Africa, according to the World Health Organisation.
Teenage hugging epidemic
Carolyn Moynihan | 28 May 2009
Is it an expression of a nurturing concern for the others? Or is the
outbreak of hugging amongst teenagers an empty fad that thrives in
today’s atmosphere of boundless informality? Whatever is behind it,
hugging is hip with teens.
‘Mum, Dad, where are you? I need to talk’
Carolyn Moynihan | 27 May 2009
It’s Youth Week in New Zealand and a survey of almost 10,000 students
at 96 secondary schools shows that more than half of them want to spend
more time with their parents.
Two divorces, a new partner, and the great mortgage meltdown
Carolyn Moynihan | 26 May 2009
Here’s a telling family angle on the Great Mortgage Meltdown in the
United States: two divorced people get together and start up a new
household in a very expensive house while he is paying more than half
his take-home pay in alimony and child-support and she hasn’t even got
a job. But the bank says, “No Problem!” -- or, at least, none that we
can’t get around.
A great new British brand: National Family Week
Carolyn Moynihan | 25 May 2009
It’s National Family Week (25th to 31st May) in Britain, a new idea
that has the simple aim of bringing families together and has the
support of leading commercial brands, charities and all political
parties.
From grades to goals: middle schoolers and education
Carolyn Moynihan | 22 May 2009
Helping middle school students with their homework may not be the best
way to get them on the honour roll. But telling them how important
academic performance is to their future job prospects and providing
specific strategies to study and learn might clinch the grades,
according to a research review.
Think family, not soul-mate, Singapore tells singles
Carolyn Moynihan | 21 May 2009
Singapore’s National Family Council is pushing the boundaries of taste
somewhat in its latest effort to promote marriage and family life, but
the island nation’s dismal fertility rate of 1.09 children per woman
helps explain why.
The secret of self-control
Carolyn Moynihan | 20 May 2009
Remember the marshmallow kids? The four-year-olds who were tested for
their ability to delay taking a sweet back in the late 1960s are still
under the microscope as scientists try to fathom the secrets of self
control.
What makes us happy?
Carolyn Moynihan | 18 May 2009
The scientific search for the secret of happiness continues, and one of
the longest-running studies of mental and physical well-being -- involving 268 men who entered Harvard in the late 1930s -- provides some interesting insights, but they won't altogether surprise you.
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