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What’s Holding Japanese Women Back
Prime Minister Abe’s call for women to “rise up” is great, but he needs to change Japan’s sexist business culture
The Pope Is No Radical
Francis isn’t throwing Catholics under the Popemobile. He’s calling for new ways of spreading the Church’s teachings
The Drama of the Anxious Child
Childhood anxiety is on the rise at every level, from fear of monsters under the bed to severe anxiety disorders
I Won’t Be Banning Porn For My Son
Eleven is the average age that kids view pornography. Sometimes it happens inadvertently via a mistakenly unfiltered search term. Or it occurs over at so-and-so’s house whose parents aren’t so savvy with Google filters
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Co-Sleeping Collides With Custody Battles
What happens when attachment parenting comes before a family court judge?
Motherhood Gave Me a Nervous Breakdown
When does the “work-life balance” debate turn into a public-health crisis?
What Pope Francis Thinks About Women in the Church
Will he give them real leadership roles or just continue to placate them by idealizing their gender?
There Is No Such Thing as the ‘Traditional Male Breadwinner’
If we’re ever going to fix our problems accommodating both work and family in our lives, we have to stop thinking that the dilemmas we face today stem from the collapse of the traditional male-breadwinner family. There is no such …
Father James Martin on the Pope’s Interview: ‘We Knew We Had Spiritual Dynamite’
The story behind — and the real message of — the Pope’s first official interview
Broken Adoptions: When Parents “Re-Home” Adopted Children
Parents who give up their adopted children have been making the news with increasing frequency of late. There’s Torry Ann Hansen, the now-infamous Tennessee nurse who sent her 7-year-old adopted son back to his native Russia on a plane, alone. Then there’s Joyce Maynard, the writer who made headlines last year when she admitted to …
Breaking Bad Normalizes Meth, Argues Prosecutor
I work as a felony prosecutor in a town where methamphetamine is our biggest narcotics problem. I’m also a big fan of Breaking Bad, but whenever I ask colleagues (particularly law-enforcement officers) whether they’ve been …
Was Sex With Children Ever O.K.?
“Things were different then” is no excuse for inappropriate sexual contact, no matter how permissive the era