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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
News flash: "Author Falls Prey to Common Myths About Parenting"
Myth: you should have children when you're ready
Truth: you will never really be ready
Myth: you should have children when you know what you are getting into
Truth: you will never know until you have them. give up the search for forewarning.
Myth: children are expensive, messy and troublesome
Truth: OK, that's not just a myth. But it is easy to articulate and be understood about what PROBLEMS children present. It is hard to articulate and is very easy to sound hopelessly mushy and inane about the wonders and the benefits of children...but they are very real.
So I would tell Mr Smith, etc: Jump in the water or don't, but don't spend the rest of your life contemplating what the jump might feel like, because you will never know without jumping.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
