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Love in the age of irony, Part 5
"Since You Asked" readers
Young readers tell us that real sex is when you don't use a condom, that real love is always hard to find -- and that they don't hate baby boomers that much. Really.
It’s all good
Dr. Lynn Ponton
As a parent and a psychiatrist, Dr. Lynn Ponton has daily encounters with the danger and exhilaration that accompany adolescence. Teenage risk is scary, she says, but it is also a developmental necessity.
A pediatrician in shining armor?
Dr. Lawrence Diller
There are no flawless parenting gurus, says Dr. Lawrence Diller, but as a behavioral pediatrician with 25 years in practice, he can guarantee thoughtful advice and plenty of moral support.
Where’s poppa?
Audrey Fisch
Another study causes alarm about children of working mothers. But one of the authors admits that fathers were again left out of the equation.
Rites revenge
Cary Tennis
My mother hijacked my wedding, and my husband and I now want a "do-over" in Vegas with an Elvis impersonator. Is that so wrong?
Big issues, big answers
Cary Tennis
Not enough sex, too much sex -- and what to do with a man who insists on baby talk with his teen girls?
Flour power
Susan Straight
The authorities have decided that hauling around sacks of flour will teach middle schoolers not to get pregnant. My daughter and I think it's a half-baked idea.
On bended knee
Heather Havrilesky
Pro-marriage revivalists praise matrimony as the way and the light. But are they bowing to a false god?
All about basketball
Susan Straight
My girls live and breathe hoops with a passion that carries us beyond the season into moments of frightening uncertainty.
A new stunt to stunt growth
Janelle Brown
New restrictions on high school graduation go further to infantilize teenagers in the hope of making them perfect adults.
Baby panic and drug tests
Salon Staff
Readers respond to recent articles on Sylvia Ann Hewlett and mandatory drug testing in public schools.
A woman’s place
Michelle Goldberg
It's been 12 years since "Backlash" -- it must be time to scare women into domestic submission again.
The week in dirt
Amy Reiter
Red carpet nastiness: Is Peter Fonda the next Joan Rivers? Plus: Why Will and Jada Smith should get a Parenting Award, why stick figure Kate Moss suddenly eats for two, and more.
Fat kids, silent parents
Amy Benfer
Hectored by experts and afraid of hurting their kids' self-esteem, parents of overweight children remain silent -- as the nation faces a youthful obesity crisis.
So much for family values
Robert Scheer
Right-wing moralists threaten to take a child out of the only home he's ever known, simply because his parents are gay.
Future mothers of America
Deborah Bishop
For a while, I traded e-mails with a pregnant, terrified 18-year-old. Then she stopped writing, and I'll always wonder.
Saying no to propaganda
Janelle Brown
Critics say the government's new anti-drug campaign is reactionary and moralistic. Worse, it may not even work.
Loving animals to death
Chris Colin
Animal hoarders think they're helping their furry friends, but mostly they're just feeding their own twisted psyches.
A cruel choice
Jennifer Foote Sweeney
A woman decides to have a child knowing that she's about to descend into dementia. That's morally indefensible.
Ten years as a willing Microsoftie
Andrew Leonard
A programmer's account of life at the evil empire is surprisingly un-Borg-like.
Outlaw mom
Spoon Bennett
As a lesbian mother, I've been pushed into the shadows by the law. Will the pediatricians' humane report finally make me a legal parent?
Men behaving oddly
Carina Chocano
"The Other Half" does nothing to quell the Oprah-ization of TV. "The Man Show" simply runs it over with a manly power mower.
Feminism, that old whipping boy
Salon Staff
Readers respond to articles on Erma Bombeck and female fatherhood.
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