Mitt Romney's Family Plan Isn't Great, but It May Be Better Than the Alternatives
Whether the federal government should be subsidizing families at all is another matter.
Whether the federal government should be subsidizing families at all is another matter.
While the task force is a move in the right direction, truancy shouldn't be up for criminal prosecution in the first place.
The New York Times misleadingly claims that cases like the abortion sought by a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim "are not as rare as people think."
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The debate isn’t a panorama of the whole American abortion war, but it is a snapshot of a key battle after a surprise victory, and it shows no path to peace.
There is demand for child tax credits, paid family leave, and funding for crisis pregnancy centers but the Rubio-Romney plan is not the answer.
A kid roaming the streets on his own is like an endangered species: once common, now rare, and worth trying to bring back.
A compendium of my writings defending the morality and legality of this program - but also warning that it remains imperiled unless and until Congress passes a law institutionalizing it.
Even if the value of their property goes down, current homeowners still often have much to gain from breaking down barriers to new housing construction.
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Many parents are on the child abuse and neglect registry, and they don't even know it.
While that impulse is understandable, it can lead to policies that do more harm than good.
“Scared straight” juvenile policing programs have a history of not working. They’re not the solution to school shootings.
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"The knot in getting that product into the U.S. isn't safety, it's a regulatory issue," says Peter Pitts.
"I really think I'm allowed to stay here," I explained, in vain.
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Preet Bharara's new children's book, Justice Is... purports to be "a guide for young truth seekers."
In Japan, even very young children are seen as capable.
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"We certainly don't want parents getting in trouble because their kids were playing on the playground," says Gov. Jared Polis
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Even if the senators are genuinely confused, that underlines the recklessness of their attack on Ketanji Brown Jackson.
The senator argues that questioning sex offender policies "endangers our children."
The Supreme Court nominee raised serious constitutional concerns about laws that punish sex offenders after they complete their sentences.
"There are no known stories of any abductions here," says Anna Hershberger.
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The broken foster system for Native American kids is finally up for Supreme Court scrutiny.
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ACLU: “The agency’s new rule substitutes parents’ judgment as to what medical care is in the best interests of their children for the judgment of the government.”
"If this study doesn't put the nail in the coffin of academic training to little children, it's hard to imagine what will," says psychologist Peter Gray.
The education pioneer’s authoritarian personality was at odds with her commitment to children’s independence.
A seventh grade health teacher says that masks and lockdowns have made her students less resilient.
British police want greater surveillance powers and they’re willing to destroy everybody’s cybersecurity to get them.
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Children forced to Zoom into school ended up with suboptimal immune systems—the opposite of herd immunity.
"You could hear they were trying not to laugh."
A new study of 915 childhood COVID-19 hospitalizations found that most involved underlying conditions.
“We essentially reorganized our society around the control of a single infectious disease, when in fact, health is plural," says Stanford professor of health policy Jay Bhattacharya.
This Brooklyn-bred New York Post columnist and her family are fleeing to Florida due to bad education policy and COVID mismanagement.
Requiring kids as young as 5 to either get vaccinated or stay home is not as smart or as necessary as de Blasio claims.
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