Family

The LA Times ran a piece about abortion that is hard to categorize [http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-abortion29nov29,0,2003322,full.story] . Meant to make abortion look acceptable, it has so many disturbing passages that I suspect it does the exact opposite. The piece revolves around an

Great piece at NYT about our growing exasperation with ill-behaved children [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/weekinreview/27warner.html?pagewanted=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1133263837-BovfueQHnmNpOKkW7rc02g] . Excerpt: > Whether children are actually any worse behaved now than they ever have been before is, of course, debatable. Children

Britain has very permissive abortion laws. An article in the Sunday Times raises a bunch of interesting issues about the practice over there. Link [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1892696,00.html]. The same issues apply over here. Excerpts: > A government agency is launching an inquiry into

The new spate of privacy laws apparently are preventing parents from helping their teenage children with addiction, depression, and other problems. Excerpt: > Whether the legal snare was embedded in the Personal Health Information Protection Act or the Child and Family Services Act or the Mental Health Act, the essence

The NYT reports that middle-aged women are leaving their careers in order to take care of their parents [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/24/national/24daughter.html]. > In another era, the task of caring for elderly parents often fell to the unmarried daughter who never left home and

Fascinating development in the Middle Kingdom: Men are taking mistresses [http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fi-mistress22nov22,0,6002074.story?coll=la-home-headlines] . > China's economic boom has led to a revival of the 2-millennium-old tradition of "golden canaries," so called because, like the showcase birds,

I think the NYT meant for this piece [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/20/national/20siblings.html?hp&ex=1132549200&en=19a9c34b71b8af37&ei=5094&partner=homepage] to be a feel-good story, at least in part, but I found it eerie. It's about children

> "If you deny a 14-year-old girl her mobile phone and MSN (Internet chat) access, it borders on child abuse," Elisabeth Staksrud told financial daily Dagens Næringsliv. Link [http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1158710.ece]. Scandinavians are great fun. They avoid having children, and then go