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Category: Children and Family
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Lydia Denworth discusses the recent backlash over new government regulations designed to keep lead out of children’s products.
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Jeremy Adam Smith looks at how kids deal with race and what parents can do to guide them.
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With the economy in trouble and budgets tight, fewer people will be traveling this Thanksgiving, but the authors of The Lonely American remind us why going “home for the holidays” matters.
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Clare Dunsford discusses the implications of genetic testing and the promising start of the Genetic Information Non Discrimination Act toward protecting against genetic discrimination.
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Artist Jamar Nicholas discusses his adaptation of Geoffrey Canada’s Fist Stick Knife Gun, and how Canada’s memoir of growing up in the South Bronx resonated with memories of his own childhood in Philadelphia.
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I am standing in the exam room, in the Women’s Health Center, listening to the rapid heartbeat of a four-month-old fetus on a Doppler. The patient, Carey McDonald, 17, a slim blond cheerleader, is alone today. Sometimes her mother, a single waitress, comes with her. The father of the baby, a star football player on…
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I’m not a sky-is-falling kind of guy; I tend to see history as the story of progress, and I have a great deal of faith in the creativity, decency, and resilience of human beings. But the signs and portents are not good; it is now very likely that America is about to enter a full-blown…
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I’m reminded of that now in the weeks since the Palin nomination–weeks when apparently even so-called liberal women with “special” children have to remind themselves of their political affiliation because of what I see as their weird identification with Ms. Palin, and Trig, her now-famous Down’s syndrome son, displayed like a new brooch at the…
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