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Madonna the conformist
Emily Jenkins
Her second awful children's book, "Mr. Peabody's Apples," is a finger-wagging, moralistic tale that condemns a kid to permanent guilt for a very minor sin.
These are your kids on drugs
Sheerly Avni
Journalist Meredith Maran spent two years searching for answers to America's epidemic of teenage addiction, while her son Jesse found his own answers -- and got clean -- through the Bible and the Baptist Church.
Twilight of the dorks?
Ian R. Williams
Geeks and nerds produced the art and science that define the modern age. But now that everybody's climbing on the dork bandwagon, where's the rage and resentment that fueled their creativity going to come from?
Letter to a pregnant friend
Anne Lamott
What advice do I have for new parents? Assemble a pit crew, don't expect to take showers, and beware of noxious orange poop.
Hollywood goes down
Rebecca Traister
A spate of new films -- one with girl-next-door Meg Ryan -- depict graphic oral sex scenes. Is the film industry's portrayal of sexuality finally beginning to get real?
Navel-gazing their way through parenthood
Katie Allison Granju
Why do Gen X moms and dads have an insatiable appetite for reading and writing about the experience of raising kids?
Same-sex family values
Laura McClure
Toby and Jean Adams moved to Auburn, Calif., to raise their daughter in a close-knit community with good schools. The reaction of their neighbors and fellow churchgoers -- from anger to acceptance to confusion -- mirrors Middle America's evolving attitudes toward gays and gay marriage.
Sinners in the hands of an angry dad
Dave Gilson
The latest product from O'Reilly's factory is, God help us, a self-help book.
Letters
Salon Staff
Don't blame the children for deadbeat, bankrupt parents: Readers respond to Katharine Mieszkowski's "Americans Are Not Going Broke Over Lattes!"
Letters
Salon Staff
Parents of disabled children commiserate with Scot Sea; others thank him for helping them understand a foreign world.
Letters
Salon Staff
"It's the parenting, stupid!" Readers respond to "From G.I. Joe to Tora Bora Ted," by Petra Bartosiewicz.
Sanitized for our protection
Charles Taylor
Teenage movie fans can watch the stars of the execrable "Bad Boys II" leer over a corpse's breasts, but the all-powerful movie ratings board probably won't allow Americans to see the Italian master Bertolucci's new film intact.
Will she be my daughter? An update
Jon Lowry
I'm still in the hands of the court system that will decide the fate of my foster child.
Sports stars, sex and stalkers
Dan McGraw
You are young, rich and chiseled, and life offers sexual opportunities that few can imagine. But increasingly, pro-spor insiders say, the risks are harrowing.
God’s hip language
Steven Kotler
The Kabbalah Centre has turned centuries' worth of impenetrable Jewish mysticism into a self-help fad for Madonna, Winona and 200,000 others.
Letters
Salon Staff
The joy and agony of parenting: Readers respond to "Gods and Monsters" and "Will She Be My Daughter?"
“Keep the wise, wild and courageous columns coming!”
Salon Staff
Readers rush to the defense of Anne Lamott.
The war off drugs
Nell Bernstein
The success of a California measure that offers drug offenders treatment before prison points a way out of the drug-war stalemate.
The neuropsychology of the playground
Fred Branfman
Psychiatrist Dan Siegel explains how understanding the complexities of your own brain chemistry can make you a better parent.
Letters
Salon Staff
"I'm black, and I do hate my nose." Readers respond to stories on plastic surgery for African-Americans and Father's Day cards from juvy.
“What a pile of codswallop!”
Salon Staff
Salon readers on rabid conservatives, randy senior citizens and impoverished 20-somethings.
Abuse and neglect
David Tuller
Domestic violence occurs as often among gay couples as among hetereosexuals, according to a new study, but victims of same-sex battering do not have equal protection under the law.
Parents on the verge of a nervous breakdown
Katy Read
Three new books explain why you're always freaking out about your kids -- and tell you to ignore the experts.
“I love my son, and I hate him”
Salon Staff
To breed or not to breed: A struggling mother and three other readers tell their stories.
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