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Spanking: A black mother's view
Karen Grigsby Bates
The survival legacy of slavery taught blacks to spank more than whites -- and that's why you don't see as many black kids having public tantrums.
To spank or not to spank
Albert Mobilio
A husband from the working class squares off with his gently bred wife.
From screaming babies to screaming college students
Camille Paglia
Introducing Camille on Campus: 'The Nurture Assumption' is a rambling, anecdotal memoir that reinforces America's lazy parenting
Who needs experts?
Beth Kephart
Our children are more magical and far more precious than the reductionist equation 'genes plus peers.'
In defense of parenthood
Katie Allison Granju
A controversial and deeply flawed new book, 'The Nurture Assumption,' argues that no matter how you parent, junior might still become the next Charles Manson.
The $10,000 hoop
Zachary Karabell
Has higher education become an exercise in futility for most Americans?
He should stay
Kate Moses
The pundits blather about Hillary's "humiliation," but she would only be disgraced if her husband were forced out of office.
Getting wise to 'Babywise'
Katie Allison Granju
Do parents who buy the controversial baby-care book "On Becoming Babywise" know about its conservative Christian agenda?
One step at a time
Lori Leibovich
The author of a new study on stepfamilies says there are coping strategies for stepparents.
He should stay
Kate Moses
The pundits blather about Hillary's "humiliation," but she would only be disgraced if her husband were forced out of office.
A counterculture childhood
Lisa Michaels
In an excerpt from her new book, the author remembers toting the Viet Cong flag as a toddler.
A counterculture childhood
Lisa Michaels
In an excerpt from her new book, the author remembers toting the Viet Cong flag as a toddler.
God's own ZIP Code
Christopher Ott
Back at radio evangelist James Dobson's headquarters, a dedicated army of true believers is poised to breach the church-state line.
Global Baby Warming
Constance Matthiessen
Our Babies, Ourselves, by anthropologist Meredith F. Small, urges us to question some of the fundamental ways Americans raise their children.
Drama Queen for a Day: Mommy dearest — not!
Salon Staff
Drama Queen for a Day contest. You think yourmother is nuts. This month's Drama Queen candidates share tales of evil moms who snoop, seduce and induce eating disorders.
How to ruin your kid's summer vacation
Kate Moses
If your children could tell you what they really want to do for vacation, you might find out that your meticulous plans to keep them occupied this summer is all for naught.
My son, the cross-dresser
Lisen Stromberg
Just because he plays soccer in ballet slippers, does that make him a weirdo?
The Best of Friends
Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel
Mendelsohn looks at how Hollywood movies depict friendships between gay men
and straight women
Missing Children
Rob Spillman
"Wanting A Child" collects the stories of writers whose desire to be parents came far easier than the children they longed for.
Sex and the 7-year-old boy
Mona Gable
Parenting manuals don't tell you how to handle it when your son has a crush on you.
Paving the road to Yale — or Palookaville
Albert Mobilio
For the meritocratic baby boomer generation, choosing between public and private schools for one's children is a loaded decision.
Boys without men
Celeste Fremon
When a middle-class mom needs fatherly advice for her son, she turns to a gang member named Crazy Ace.
Dear Daughter: Go to jail. Love, Mom
Dawn MacKeen, Lori Leibovich
Pro-family advocates would rather pass judgment on Monica Lewinsky's mom than on the government forcing her to testify against her child.
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