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Hollywood hypocrisy
Amy Benfer
"Riding in Cars With Boys," the uplifting memoir of a teenage mom done good, is twisted into a smarmy fable designed to promote abstinence-only sex education.
Only correct
Laura Miller
Jonathan Franzen talks about the medicalization of love and loss, the charms of Narnia and living in an America where no one grows up.
An interview with Jonathan Franzen
Salon Staff
Listen to Laura Miller's conversation with the author of "The Corrections," recorded at Salon's studios in New York.
If a child is a killer, are the parents to blame?
Damien Cave
Psychologist and author James Garbarino says the responsibility for teen violence must be shared.
The hippie mom and others respond
Salon Staff
Sarah Beach, author of "Curse of the Hippie Parents," is both hailed and criticized by readers.
“Beauty and the Beasts” by Carole Jahme
Charles Taylor
Women primatologists braved death threats, rapist orangutans and the twisted mentoring of Louis Leakey to bring us the truth about apes.
Curse of the hippie parents
Sarah Beach
Benign neglect and noodle dancing to Ravi Shankar do not a healthy childhood make.
Pretending us
Carol L. Skolnick
Why do we make this big deal out of this simple and absurd thing that two bodies do?
The myth of the deadbeat dad
Suzy Hansen
A researcher who interviewed black fathers who don't live with their kids talks about their surprising views on parenting.
Reading, writing and propaganda
Daniel Forbes
American school kids are being subjected to "news" programs that contain covert government-sponsored anti-drug messages.
Rebel, rebel
Joyce Millman
James Dean lives again in a riveting, beautiful TNT movie and an uncanny performance from James Franco.
The mind of a killer
Suzy Hansen
A neurologist who studies murderers' brains talks about factors that make someone kill, the difficulty of predicting violence and why most murderers can never be rehabilitated.
“Defusing the explosive child” and “A child’s first funeral”
Salon Staff
Readers respond to the war between the psychologist and the pediatrician. Plus: Angry readers say, "Kill the gerbil!"
Larry Clark
Stephen Lemons
Hide your children! The director of the controversial new film "Bully" and 1995's "Kids" talks about sex, violence and parenting.
Letters
Salon Staff
Psychologist Ross Greene, author of "The Explosive Child," responds to pediatrician Lawrence Diller's review of his book.
Defusing the explosive child
Lawrence H. Diller
Prescribing drugs, not discipline, will only escalate conflict, lead to more
difficult kids and weaken our already-lax culture of parenting.
Letters of the week
Salon Staff
Readers call Jason D. Hill a eugenicist, provide testimonials on the joy of antidepressants and tell the parents of cyberbullies to rein in their kids.
Save lives! Defy nature!
Jason D. Hill
Parents who kill their kids prove that we shouldn't have an automatic right to reproduce.
A pandemic fueled by poverty
Daryl Lindsey
A doctor says the fight to get cheap AIDS drugs to Africa is misguided: These people need water, food and basic healthcare.
Kiss of death
Garrison Keillor
Out of nowhere, my dear friend kissed me and declared his devotion. I swear I wasn't flirting!
Cruising for teen boozing
Amy Standen
Jenna's not the only one under scrutiny. One city puts cops on the party circuit to stop underage drinking.
The morality police
Charles Taylor
Our hysterical attempts to shield kids from images of sex and violence are stunting young lives -- and trapping us all in a Big Lie.
The nuclear family takes a hit
Amy Benfer
Census data deals a blow to an American icon -- and the conservative groups that promote it.
Banish the boogeymom!
Jennifer Foote Sweeney
Why, when a woman chooses both to work and to mother, does she incite the sort of rage reserved for wayward clerics and defilers of sacred things?
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