Kids these days – it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Turns out the 11-year-old boy who reported an abduction attempt in Houston earlier this week was making it all up. "He admitted that he had been missing his mother who was at work a lot and and made up the story…
Category: Child Care
Abortion Bills Stall in Congress
Samantha Torrence says: "One of the major societal epidemics in America today is the lack of respect for not only the sanctity of life, but a lack of love for our own children." No surprise that this comes during an epidemic of self-indulgent, irresponsible behavior. Suffering the consequences for one’s actions, it seems, is no…
What Are the Common Elements?
These 3 events have at least 2 things in common. What are they? First, the father who microwaved his 2-month-old "loves his baby" and today refused to give up his parental rights. Second, some un-heroic Transportation Security Administration workers have been accused of having forced a woman to remove her nipple piercings with pliers in…
Spare the Rod
More silliness from one of the bluest states of them all: The Boston Herald reported that State Rep. Jay Kaufman filed the spanking ban petition at the request of an Arlington, Mass., nurse who wants Massachusetts to become the first state in the country to stop corporal punishment. Personally I don’t really care what the…
Childless and Saving the World
The Daily Mail has an amusing article today about two couples who are doing their part to save the world by not having children. Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of…
Of Youth and Discipline
The NY Times Board wrote today: The Government Accountability Office exposed a national outrage earlier this month in a report that found thousands of allegations of abuse and neglect at treatment programs that sell military-style discipline as a way to set delinquent youngsters straight — sometimes known as boot camps. The GAO report, unveiled at…
Kids and Violence
In the wake of yesterday’s slaughter at Virginia Tech the questions “why did this happen?” and “how can we stop it from happening again?” are on everyone’s lips. I think that the two questions are closely related, but perhaps not for the same reasons as others who might agree. I think events like these have…
Drivel…
Ana Veciana-Suarez’s column on child-care research is just that. There’s so little that is sensible about this article that it’s hard to identify a point to pick on, but I’ll try. “Yet, as a society we’ve failed miserably in keeping up with the times and providing better options for families, particularly those who can’t afford…
Biology Means Very Little, Really
Thom Marshall wrote about a girl who wants to live with her step-mother instead of her biological one, only to be stymied by the courts. When will judges learn to keep their noses out of business like this? A 12-year old knows well enough what’s best. Far better, I might add, than a judge who’s…
Spanking = Child Abuse?
This Bryan, Texas jury seems to think so. The facts presented in the article are consistent with this finding. A six year old child is defenseless against a raging adult. Seemingly, justice was done. So what’s to say? What is disturbing about this story is the prosecuting attorney’s closing quote: “Do we want to send…