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October 2020

October 13, 2020

Amy Coney Barrett and the Right’s Exploitation of Children

There is one other thing I want to address. I'm somewhat reluctant to say anything...

August 2020

August 24, 2020

If You Cared About Children

Campaigns like these are not actually about the children. They are about using children as...

December 2018

December 26, 2018

Why Paid Maternity Leave and Subsidized Childcare Are Not Enough

The next time I hear someone complaining about millennials not having children, I'll make doubly...

July 2018

July 02, 2018

Baptist Church Pledges to Use Ivanka’s Money to Proselytize Migrant Children Separated from Their Parents

Most of the immigrant children who have been separated from their parents at the border...

April 2018

April 10, 2018

The Hart Family and the Crafting of Image

I'm left with questions. Was Devonte required by his parents to hold that sign? Was...

April 03, 2018

Teenage Activism and Conservative Hypocrisy

As for claims that the Parkland teens are being manipulated and used to push someone...

June 2017

June 01, 2017

House Passes 15 Year Minimum for Teen Sexters

Depending on prosecutors not to prosecute juveniles for sexting is a sorry excuse, especially coming...

February 2017

February 09, 2017

What Conservatives Get Wrong about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child protects and empowers parents, too. Children's...

January 2017

January 26, 2017

Do Children Have a Right to Medical Care?

I am all for empowering parents by making sure that they can afford to take...

January 10, 2017

Why Can’t DeVos Support the School I Chose?

I'm well aware that Republicans are test-happy when it comes to the public schools. Think...

December 2016

December 20, 2016

Rudolph the Bullied Reindeer

Why didn't Santa tell the other reindeer to stop making fun of Rudolph? Surely he...

December 08, 2016

The Terrible Inconsistency in Ohio’s Abortion Ban

It's hard to take seriously those working to ban abortion when there is a completely...

September 2016

September 07, 2016

What We Can Learn from Mother Teresa’s Defense of a Pedophile Priest

Mother Teresa has finally been proclaimed a saint by the Catholic Church, offering people around...

August 2016

August 09, 2016

Trump’s Childcare Plan Helps the Wealthy, Not the Poor

By now, you're probably aware that Donald Trump gave a speech on economics yesterday. You...

July 2016

July 13, 2016

Gender, Gender, Everywhere

I was recently at an appointment in a medical office with my preschool son, Bobby....

July 06, 2016

Why Is the Catholic Church Lobbying against Statute of Limitations Reform?

Next time someone tells you that the Catholic Church has changed, and that it now...

June 2016

June 20, 2016

Kids These Days . . . Are Actually Okay

Apparently "selfish, disrespectful brats who have no respect for people, property or authority" commit less...

June 06, 2016

Supergirl’s Jeremy Jordan: My Gay Cousin Has Been Sent to a Christian Home for Troubled Teens

I have a good friend who was sent to a Christian home for troubled teens...

May 2016

May 16, 2016

“Do I look like a boy, or a girl?”

My children each wear a range of clothes in a range of styles. I've never...

May 05, 2016

Christian Homeschool Leader Announces Conference for Arranging Child Marriages

This November, in Wichita, Kansas, fundamentalist and conservative evangelical parents will gather at a conference...

May 05, 2016

Why Do We as a Society Still Spank Our Children?

I've sometimes seen spanking advocates respond by arguing that studies of spanking include corporal punishment...

May 04, 2016

How Do I Explain Trump’s Rise to My Children?

To be perfectly honest, I'm somewhat ashamed. I'm ashamed that the grownups of this country...

April 2016

April 06, 2016

The Duggars, the Dionnes, and Child Exploitation

Child labor laws frequently come up in discussions of the Duggars. There are laws about...

April 04, 2016

Why I Don’t Force Confrontation with My Children

I remember what it felt like to have a parent staring at me and trying...

March 2016

March 21, 2016

How (Not) to Convince Someone to Have Kids

McInnes is right that global population is projected to peak and then decline, by the...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

How I’ve Learned (and Unlearned) Parenting

I was raised in a strict evangelical home, and was taught that children must learn to respect their...

February 23, 2016

Guest Post: Not a Nice Story

By Darcy Originally posted on Darcy's Heart Stirrings From babyhood they said "You are a dirty...

February 15, 2016

How Should We Understand Children’s Political Agency?

I don't remember my first political activity, but my parents do. I'm told I was...

January 2016

January 21, 2016

Demons and the Consequences of Feeding Children’s Fears

So, demons. I've written on this topic before, but it's been a while, and when...

November 2015

November 16, 2015

Please Don’t Deny Our Agency

Yes, children who grow up in Christian homeschooling families are often more sheltered than other...