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  • Has Promoting Mother Absence Spawned Campus Crybabies?

    11/01/2017 1:44:14 PM PDT · by punknpuss · 19 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 11/1/2017 | Joy Pullman
    The reflective Mary Eberstadt has the latest Weekly Standard cover story, asserting that the late rise of identity politics especially among the young descends from the decline in family, despite myriad other theories. An excerpt: Maybe that cultural scream of ‘mine!’ is issuing from souls who did have something taken from them—only something more elemental than the totemic objects now functioning as figurative blankies for lost and angry former children. As of today, less than 65 percent of American children live with both biological parents, even as other familial boughs have broken via external forces like the opioid crisis, criminality...
  • British News: £ year old denied nursery place because he is "English speaking" & has a back garden.

    06/29/2004 1:28:26 AM PDT · by BritishBulldog · 69 replies · 941+ views
    NO NURSERY FOR ENGLISH-SPEAKING BABY Jun 29 2004 By Richard Smith A BOY of three had a full-time nursery place taken away partly because he speaks English and has a garden, says his mum. Christopher Townsend was due to start in September but he no longer qualifies for a place under the council-run school's new admissions policy. Mum Nicki, 39, said yesterday: "I was told he did not fit the criteria as he had English as his first language and that he came from a home with a garden." Nicki, an occupational therapist, has lived in the catchment area for...
  • Spare us the devoted working mother act, Cherie

    12/16/2002 10:10:50 AM PST · by WaterDragon · 4 replies · 217+ views
    Sidney Herald ^ | Muriel Gray
    I DON'T care about Cherie Blair's rubbish friends and her attempts to mislead. She wasn't elected, she's not publicly accountable, and if Downing Street press officers are stupid enough to mislead on her behalf then our fight should be with them and not her. Curiously, what I do care about is being forced by the media to judge the connecting parts of this woman's life, and I care because she is currently being held up as an example of 'perfect' working motherhood found flawed and wanting only by being too 'protective' of her family...(snip) For Complete Article, Please Click Here.