Shrinking Our Super-Sized Kids: Who's in Charge Here?
Instead of allowing our children to explore and sample life in the "outside world," we keep them inside, feed them junk food, and use TV as a babysitter.
Instead of allowing our children to explore and sample life in the "outside world," we keep them inside, feed them junk food, and use TV as a babysitter.
Christina Patterson | Posted 09.01.2009 | Living
More than 80 years after women were given the right to vote, we seem more convinced than ever that the chief role of women in our society is adornment.
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.16.2009 | Comedy
Do you have any hot looking daughters? My 27 year-old adult soon still lives at home and I'd do anything to marry him off, or at least have him shack up somewhere else.
Rinku Sen | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
As our state legislatures struggle with impending budget deficits, American families are going to be presented with a bunch of terrible "choices." Do ...
Margaret Ryan | Posted 04.11.2009 | Green
Children don't play the way they used to and they are suffering for it. Some say, nature, or lack of it, is to blame.
Kyrina McCormick | Posted 03.20.2009 | Living
Right thinking does not cure a broken heart. And I remain brokenhearted over a very right decision made years ago.
Meredith Lopez | Posted 03.07.2009 | Living
I started giving him a bath every other day, because he has copious neck folds that are taking over his body and no amount of "a quick clean with a washcloth" does the trick.
Riane Eisler | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
The Real Wealth of our Nation is Its People Over half a million people lost their jobs last month. There's no question we need a job-creation plan. T...
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
The present plan includes tax cuts that will benefit even those too poor to pay taxes, and includes $4 billion for child care services for low-income families.
Robert Drago | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics
We need to spend federal money now to help jump-start employment and incomes, but once we are spending money, we should devote it to something worthwhile.
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 01.10.2009 | Living
Despite the considerable ink spilled over cultural shifts, nothing changes gendered behavior like economic necessity. During the '91 recession, more husbands were primary childcare providers.
Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 01.08.2009 | Home
While Obama aims to fund traditional infrastructure-maintenance work, in the big picture, good, affordable childcare shores up infrastructure of an even more essential kind, our citizens.
Deborah Copaken Kogan | Posted 12.05.2008 | Living
We need government-subsidized daycare. We're one of the only industrialized nations in the world that doesn't meet this most basic need for its working families.
Vanessa Richmond | Posted 11.16.2008 | Entertainment
What's really at stake isn't whether the story of Spear's pregnancy is true or not, but the way the news is delivered and then the way that pregnancy and birth are treated by the media and public.
Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
While this political season won't yield a woman president, it has seen a movement of women into the political forefront as never before.
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
The economy is about more than just Wall Street bailouts. It's about how we're going to pay for escalating childcare, how we can pull together healthcare coverage for our kids.
Nanette Fondas | Posted 11.02.2008 | Living
Let's ask our leaders to lead us toward solutions to the very real concerns mothers and families have today. Perhaps if we keep asking we will finally get an answer.
Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics
Will Palin's difficulty on the big stage set back the progress of women into higher office?
Emily Pease | Posted 10.11.2008 | Home
It's time Palin got real. Let's hear how she's going to help families obtain childcare, how she'll win better pay and benefits for the child care workers and advance early childhood education. Let's hear her give some respect to working women without the time to be "hockey moms."
Ramon Resa, MD | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living