Patrick Boyle
Patrick Boyle
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Patrick Boyle is editor of Youth Today, the national trade newspaper and website for people who run youth programs, and an essayist who specializes in fatherhood.

Boyle has covered youth issues as a staff reporter and freelancer for the Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Newsday, Child and Parenting magazines, ABC News, The Watertown Daily Times and The Washington Times, among others.

His book, Scouts’ Honor, examined child molestation in the Boy Scouts of America.

Boyle has received awards for news, feature, investigative reporting and essay-writing from the National Newspaper Association, the University of Missouri/Science School of Journalism, the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association, the National Headliner Awards, the Society of Professional Journalists, the American Society of Business Publication Editors and the New York Press Association.

He is married with three children.

Blog Entries by Patrick Boyle

Save a Kid; Bring a Molester to Church

Posted September 9, 2009 | 08:59 PM (EST)

Jaycee Dugard's kidnapping story got me thinking about the day I got a call from a distraught child molester.

I had gotten to know Carl well when he was in a Virginia prison, as I based a book about sex abuse on his life as a pedophile. After Carl...

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Let Them Eat Ice Cream, and Puke

5 Comments | Posted August 3, 2009 | 02:23 PM (EST)

On day three of our week-long fathers-and-sons trip from our homes in Maryland to a wrestling camp in Vermont, the boys finally get what they've been demanding for a year: Friendly's ice cream.

"We're going to Friendly's every day!" our wrestling coach's son had promised his teammates on the same...

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Kindergarten Cop: Let Your Kids Catch You Breaking the Law

2 Comments | Posted June 30, 2009 | 01:10 PM (EST)

Like most parents, over the years I have gradually abandoned my youthful vices for the comfort of family life, to the point where the only indulgences I have left are pathetic. One of them is speeding.

I'm not even talking about fun speeding -- the kind that makes other...

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