Preventing child abuse and neglect is everybody's business -- not a job for government alone. National Child Abuse Prevention Month is a time to commit to working together to keep our children safe.
Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 05.08.2009 | Style
I am wistful not because I miss Georgia's split pea soup (though I truly do), but because I'm expecting that such gleeful times in places like Deities may never occur again.
Sara Whitman | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics
Today, we are approaching the fifth anniversary of marriage equality in our state. We have pushed the envelope, no question. And we will continue to.
Jim Wallis | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics
While I support the president's budget, it does not bring Easter morning to the country.
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner | Posted 03.18.2009 | Politics
While Wall Street rails against restrictions on executive salary bonuses, families are suffering. Some moms are selling their blood plasma to put food on the table.
Jim Wallis | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics
The stars have now aligned in the midst of this economic crisis, and it is precisely the time to address the urgent issues of poverty in America.
Indra Adnan | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics
Hilary could not then and cannot now afford to promote 'soft power' for fear of appearing weak. 'Smart power', given her own concerns about politics and gender, is the best she can do.
Charles Lachman | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics
In each succeeding generation, the misfortunes of Abraham Lincoln's direct descendants multiplied into a litany of alcoholism, squandered fortunes, and outright dissipation.
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics
From 1996 to 2007, the number of single-parent families with children living below the poverty line fell by a whopping 2.5%. Who says there's no progress in America?
Josa Young | Posted 03.02.2009 | Media
This morning, thanks to darling husband, I woke to find muesli with yoghurt and a cup of tea beside the bed in acknowledgment of my editorial marathon.
Stephanie Elliot | Posted 03.01.2009 | Living
Giving blood is not painful, and you'll come away from this experience feeling like you've just given someone the greatest most expensive gift: life.
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.
Jason Notte | Posted 02.22.2009 | Living
Obama and his mother benefited not only from their own unique gifts, but from the willingness of Dunham's parents to assist in the process.
C. Nicole Mason | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics
The numbers also fail to consider the number of individuals employed in the shadow economy who have become unemployed as a result of the economic downturn.
Sara Whitman | Posted 01.09.2009 | Living
Let me have the full responsibility of being an American. Because every child in this country deserves a family. I am an asset to this society.
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner | Posted 12.27.2008 | Living
Daily worries about work and family responsibilities proved to be frequent for 72 percent of working fathers and 67 percent of working mothers with children under 18.
Jeannie Ralston | Posted 12.26.2008 | Living
As my friends and I considered the implications of what we had uncovered, paranoia set in. What other areas of life were affected? Men always want to drive," declared a friend.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.09.2008 | Business
What is a Christian response to a deepening economic crisis like this? What should people of faith be thinking, saying, and doing?
Melody Serafino | Posted 10.26.2008 | Living
It's time to get past the fear of talking about AIDS because no one is immune.
Laura Vanderkam | Posted 07.16.2008 | Living
These days, wives are doing things we enjoy more than running errands with our days --and so an industry of concierge services, household managers and the like has sprung up to try to make the little things littler.
Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 08.15.2008 | Living
From the political left or right, we should be able to come together around the idea that it's bad to use psychiatric drugs to control children. There are better ways.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.21.2009 | Living