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Published: 07/14/10

Choosing Children: A Huge Investment in a Perilous World

By  Donna Trussell - Politics Daily
Choosing Children:  A Huge Investment in a Perilous World

Kids. Are they bundles of joy? Or crippling burdens? A trip to the mall will remind anyone that it depends on the parent and depends on the kid. However, a headline like that is not going sell papers. Despite the title of New York Magazine cover story "I Love My Children. I Hate My Life," readers learn on page six of the six-page article that research reveals in the long run parents do not regret having kids. It's the childless who have regrets. Sure, kids will ruin your life. But so does everything, if you live long enough. My colleague Sarah Wildman acknowledges the frustrations of ...

Published: 12/21/09

'Lovely Bones' Cuts Too Close to the Bone

By  Bonnie Goldstein - Politics Daily
'Lovely Bones' Cuts Too Close to the Bone

"The Lovely Bones" is a lovely book. Alice Sebold's 2002 novel, narrated by a murdered 14-year-old named Susie Salmon as she watches over her family from heaven, was praised by critics, discussed by book groups, and sold over a million copies. The New York Times' Michiko Kakutani extolled Sebold's ability "to capture both the ordinary and the extraordinary . . . in lyrical, unsentimental prose" that displayed her "gift for making palpable the dreams, regrets and unstilled hopes of one girl and one family." As inevitably happens with successful books, the elegiac story has been rendered into ...

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