Digital multitasking: scourge or blessing?
Anya Kamenetz
| 22 May 2013 |
tags: education, multitasking, social media
How can we teach students to focus on what they ought to be doing?
Who or what is a “child”?
Margaret Somerville
| 22 May 2013 |
tags: abortion, Canada
Canada's Parliament lacks the courage to take a stand on defining when an unborn child will be protected by the law.
Japan - Where did the children go?
Marcus Roberts | 22 May 2013 |
tags: birthrate, demography, Japan
The number of Japanese under the age of 15 has hit (another) record low.
Declaration of 2013 World Congress of Families
Tamara Rajakariar | 21 May 2013 |
tags:
Congress 2013's declaration as orated by its General Secretary.
“Obama’s campaign to silence”
Sheila Liaugminas | 21 May 2013 |
tags: Associated Press, Fox News, James Rosen, Justice Department overreach, Obama administration, Obama Justice Dept.
That, by the usually Obama friendly Christian Science Monitor, is a pretty apt description of what’s going on lately.
We’re all mad here
Allen Frances
| 21 May 2013 |
tags: DSM-5, psychiatry
That's the message of the new edition of the bible for American psychiatrists, DSM-5. Diagnostic inflation is about to become hyperinflation.
Jolie’s Choice
Michael Cook
| 20 May 2013 |
tags: bioethics, breast cancer, celebrities
Angelina Jolie's decision to have a double mastectomy made headlines around the world. But is she sending women the right message?
A fight for equality or a war on difference?
Brendan O'Neill
| 20 May 2013 |
tags: discrimination, equality, same-sex marriage, UK
To invite the government to give us phony equalities by recognising gay marriage is to invite greater state intervention into our personal lives.
A shortage of women workers in China pushes up wages
Michael Cook | 20 May 2013 |
tags: China, labor shortages, one-child policy
Believe it or not, China is facing labour shortages. There is a shortage of women (I wonder why) and wages…
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Ronan Wright
| 20 May 2013 |
tags: film reviews
The familiar characters face very contemporary issues of terrorism and militarism in this nicely characterised film.
The undying legacy of the African woman
Robert Odero | 20 May 2013 |
tags: African women legacy, true feminism
The African woman is neither a mirror image of man nor a slave. She feels no need to imitate men…
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Jennifer Minicus | 20 May 2013 |
tags: boys, bullying, family, sports
A charming story filled with believable characters and reverence for family relationships.
Defending traditional marriage
Blaise Joseph | 19 May 2013 |
tags: Australia, family, marriage, parenting
A forum on marriage at the World Congress of Families provided a strong defence of marriage.
IRS targeting scandal grows, among others
Sheila Liaugminas | 17 May 2013 |
tags: Barack Obama, scandal
There is bi-partisan outrage over the widening scope of the revelation that the powerful Internal Revenue Service has been targeting…
Chinese Author Ma Jian and the One-Child Policy
Marcus Roberts | 17 May 2013 |
tags: China, Ma Jian, one-child policy
More first hand testimony from inside China about the one-child policy's effects.
Improving a child’s ability (& desire) to learn
Clare Cannon | 17 May 2013 |
tags: education, learning, non-fiction, reading, school, writing
Build skills and excite interests that will stay with a child for life.
How legal euthanasia changed Belgium for ever
Tom Mortier
and Steven Bieseman
| 17 May 2013 |
tags: autonomy, Belgium, euthanasia
The ideology of absolute self-determination has become sacred and unquestionable.
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