The $25 Million NIH Sex Study
The Federal Government wants to spend $2 million to ask 2,300 Americans when they last had sex, whether their partner was aman or a woman, and precisely what…
Category: Family
The Mommy Track is Feminist Heresy
Feminist hysteria about the “Mommy Track” has been an entertaining diversion during a spring in which the media alternate between depressing reports about the Alaskan oil spill and…
Business and the Schools – An Odd Couple
A cover article in Nation’s Business addresses the problem that so many young people are too illiterate to hire even for entry-level jobs, and challenges business to take…
Choice in Education – The Wave of the Future
When George Bush was campaigning for the Presidency, he said he wants to be the “Education President.” Nobody knew what that meant, since about 93 percent of public…
The Child Care and Career Dilemmas — April 1989
Education Reporter — March 1989
Women’s Career Adviser Urges a Mommy Track
The Harvard Business Review is not a magazine that usually stirs up emotional controversies. But an article in the January-February issue is downright incendiary because it dares to…
The Politics of Daycare
When President George Bush delivered his Budget Message to Congress on February 9, the conservative, pro-family approach to child care came of age. With striking clarity, he said:…
Minnesota School Survey Offends Parents
A questionnaire to be administered this month to thousands of Minnesota public school students has aroused opposition from parents who find it objectionable because it is privacy-invading and…
Too Much Child Awareness About Child Abuse
The Scottsdale, Arizona School District has removed a controversial “grandfather card” from use in a curriculum on child sexual abuse awareness called C.A.R.E. This is one of those…