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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?
We believe children aren’t the future
Lori Steele
Infertility makes us snide and courageous and sad.
Old and in the family way
Johanna Wald
Are aging parents doing the math when they add to their families late in the game?
The pregnant pariah
Amy Benfer
I've got news for Gov. Jane Swift, and it probably isn't what she wants to hear.
Letters: Lumpen gangstas, Manilow’s roadie and good parenting
Salon Staff
Readers respond to recent articles about Snoop Dogg and Tom Waits. Plus: Robert W. Firestone on child rearing.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to "Jay Belsky doesn't play well with others" by Jennifer Foote Sweeney and "The wrong kind of black" by Cecelie Berry.
Generation S-E-X
Amy Benfer
Contrary to ancient doctrine -- and the neighborhood pimp -- mommies can be hotties.
What if our goals are meager and strange?
Jennifer Foote Sweeney
Perfection is the new minimum in child rearing and I am the lowest common denominator.
You are what you eat, but so’s the panther
Douglas Cruickshank
Welcome to a special series of articles on winning, losing, succeeding, failing, ascending, descending and living to tell the tales.
Ode to Frances
Kate Moses
Who would have known that Russell Hoban's tales of a badger would teach generations of children the difficult work of becoming human?
Life and death on the Well
Janelle Brown
Author Katie Hafner says the online community made history -- from a legendary fight against anti-porn hysteria to the simple task of providing information on head lice.
Goddess in a girdle
Jennifer Foote Sweeney
Evelyn Ryan, "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio," has delivered me from the evil of lousy mothering manuals.
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