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Opinion: The Institution Formerly Known as Marriage
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 5) -- The essential public purpose of marriage is to attach mothers and fathers to their children and to one another. Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling overturning California's Proposition 8 illustrates that he does not understand this basic point. He replaces this public purpose with private purposes of adults' feelings and desires. He approvingly quotes a historian who explains that marriage is "a couple's choice to live with each other, to remain committed to one another, and to form a household based on their own feelings about one another, and their agreement to join in an economic ...
Dad in Chief: Obama Father's Day Speech Launches Parenting Programs
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyThe last time Barack Obama tackled the tricky-if-universal subject of fatherhood, he was a candidate for president, addressing a largely black audience at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago in June 2008. The speech -- one of Obama's most popular -- was a spirited address about the realities of fatherhood in the U.S., one peppered with real talk and comic asides. During the speech, he referenced everything from Chris Rock ("Too many of our men brag about doing the stuff they're supposed to do. They say, 'I'm not in jail!' Well, you're not supposed to be in jail!") to ESPN ("Don't just sit ...
A Baby: The Road Not Taken
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyNever had one. When I was 20 years old, I thought I never would. I seriously considered tying my tubes. For lots of reasons, well cataloged by my fellow writer Sarah Wildman in her post "Best Age to Have a Baby? A) Before 26? B) After 26? C) Never?" Besides, babies are noisy. They're grabby. On their foreheads are neon signs: I want! I need! Right now! ...
Parents, Wake Up -- 'Educational' Videos for Babies Don't Work
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyColor me surprised. Another study has come out saying that educational videos for infants are not helpful, and might be harmful. This latest study is set to be published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine in May -- and it reports that educational DVDs aimed at infants are not likely to boost their word power. Yes, I too am shocked (shocked!) that sticking your 1-year-old in front of the DVD player for an hour a day will not, in fact, turn her into a prodigy. The APAM study is not the first with this finding. One done almost three years ago by researchers at the University ...
Good Parent or Smother Mother? It's a Fine Line
By Ria Misra - Politics DailySandra Tsing Loh's article on motherhood in this month's Atlantic has kicked off quite a discussion among my colleagues, Melinda, Lynn, Delia and Lizzie, about what makes a good parent. But, if we could set aside questions of parental quality for just a moment, I want to talk about something a little easier to measure: quantity -- namely, too much parenting. Loh references Ayelet Waldman's book on motherhood, "Bad Mother," early on, mostly to complain that Waldman, as a mother, is too good, with far too model a family to deserve the moniker. But it was a quote from the book written by the ...
Babies Change Everything, Including Your Vote
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyDoes having kids change the way men and women vote? Researchers from North Carolina State University think so. A new study finds that after having children, men and women tend to move further apart on the political spectrum, with mothers becoming more liberal on social welfare issues and fathers becoming more conservative. Researchers found that after motherhood, women also became more liberal in their views toward the Iraq war. Thefinding was at odds with speculation in some media that mothers, fearful of terrorism, were hawkish on the war. "(It) is a very different understanding of the ...
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