‘Reasons My Son is Crying’ and the Suffering of Children
This is not just a dancing cat blog.
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Becoming Forever Lonesome: How Violence Changes Us
I knew something horrific had happened just from my friend Lisa’s email: “R U watching the news?” When you report on violence, when your family has been pierced by violence, people assume you are interested in violence. And you are. Very.
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Women and Children First: Syria’s Day of Dignity
A consciousness change is happening in Syria, a country of twenty-three million that has been brutalized under Martial Law since 1963. My parents left in 1971 with their children, including me, because the repression of civil liberties had already become intolerable. The sense of helpless terror became so ingrained among Syrians that relatives who remained in Syria spoke only in hushed tones and coded words about the brutality of the state—even, incredibly, when they were visiting us in our suburban U.S. home, miles from the reach of any Syrian state police agent.
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Tucson, Like All Tragedy, is for Adults
The decision to deploy the image of innocent childhood at the end of Obama’s Tuscon speech seemed strange then, and still seems strange now.
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RD10Q: The Fight Against Feminism
It’s not just another weird religion story about families with eighteen kids. The Christian Patriarchy movement represents a growing backlash against women’s rights within religious communities.
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Consumerism’s New Frontier: The Preschool Set
Recent studies show that children as young as three years old use “brand cues” to choose among food and play options—and thus is a Pandora’s toybox opened.
Read MoreCan Johnny and Sally Handle the Truth About Thanksgiving?
Maybe it’s time to stop framing European conquest as dinner party between Pilgrims and Indians.
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Presidential Pep Talks and the Religion of Fear: How did an Uncontroversial Speech Become a National Controversy?
The conservatives who were frightened by Obama’s speech to schoolchildren weren’t afraid he’d say something radical—quite the contrary—they were afraid that the president would sound moderate and human. The real question, why did they buy the fear? is impossible to answer without considering religion.
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O(Pinn)ion: God’s Little Soldiers: Procreation as a Weapon
The Quiverfull movement sees children as an army of missionaries meant to reshape the United States along biblical lines.
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When Medicine and Religion Conflict Around Children: The Case of Daniel Hauser
When Daniel Hauser and his mother, members of new Native American religion the Nemenhah Band, opted out of chemotherapy and fled to Mexico, the media were ready with a religion vs. medicine narrative.
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