I first have to say that I know a lot of great teenagers. I’m immensely proud of my sons and almost as much so of many of their friends. I stopped as I was writing this and nearly discarded it, keenly aware that I could inadvertently hurt one of these great kids by causing them…
Category: Parenting
Study: TV Sex Leads to Teen Pregnancies
The Washington Post reports that a new study has determined the obvious: teenagers who watch sexually explicit programs on television are more likely to become pregnant than those who don’t. “Watching this kind of sexual content on television is a powerful factor in increasing the likelihood of a teen pregnancy,” said lead researcher Anita Chandra….
Birth Control Rules
Following on to yesterday’s piece about birth (and death) control, here’s more from ABC News: The Department of Health and Human Services draft proposal, which began circulating around Capitol Hill last week, would require hospitals receiving federal funds to certify that, in their hiring, they do not discriminate against people who refuse to provide forms…
Obama’s Father’s Day Message
Barack Obama to black men: "Fatherhood doesn’t end at conception." Right on. If Obama is to deliver on his promise of positive change, that’s perhaps the area in which he can do the most good. More: “Too many fathers are M.I.A, too many fathers are AWOL, missing from too many lives and too many homes,”…
Effects of Feminism
Rebecca Walker, daughter of feminism and author Alice Walker, who publicly called her own child a calamity in her life, has some interesting things to say about the movement. Well worth reading. the truth was I was very lonely and, with my mother’s knowledge, started having sex at 13. I guess it was a relief…
Why American Education Stinks
Despite spending vast amounts on our primary education system, the United States is getting only moderate return on that investment. In primary education, on a per-pupil basis, the United States spent 66 percent more than Germany, 56 percent more than France, 27 percent more than Japan, 80 percent more than the United Kingdom, 62 percent…
1st Grade Harassment
In pointing out another case of legalistic lunacy, Susan Duclos writes: The "zero tolerance" policy at some school and in some states, reaches levels of complete incompetence when a 6 years gets written up as a sexual offender for copying what another kid did and playfully smacking little Katherine DeLeon on the bottom twice. ……
Obama: Sense and Nonsense
Inside every candidate there are multiple personalities, each of whom run the show in turn, depending on who the audience is. Barack Obama is no different than any other. He’s touched on personal responsibility before and he does it well by not trying to pull any punches, as in Gary, Indiana today: "You should have…
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…
No Right to Home School
Michelle Malkin has this story about a California court that has issued an outrageously harsh – and grotesquely incorrect – indictment against the practice of home-schooling. From the LA Times: "Parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children," wrote Justice H. Walter Croskey in a Feb. 28 opinion signed by the…