Back soon…

August 4, 2009
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Just a little makeover.  See you soon!

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The benefits of being a single mom.

June 24, 2009

The marriage debate continues…it’s not just about same-sex couples. It’s about whether people, especially women, should even be married in the first place.
Banish the image of the tired, stressed, single mom who’s trying to make ends meet. Now, some are suggesting that they prefer their status as single moms and some married women are saying [...]

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President Obama Promotes Fatherhood

June 19, 2009

While I am at odds with certain policy positions of the President, especially those relating to the life issues, I was really pleased to see the talk that he gave on fatherhood last weekend. We need more of this type of discourse.
For a long time, women, e.g. various strands of feminism, claimed that they got [...]

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Is there anyone out there besides me?

June 17, 2009

‘The NYT recently ran a piece about a grad student’s decision to have an abortion. I was so stunned by the article that I’m only now able to articulate some semblance of a response.
This section of my website is called “Thinking Out Loud…” because I don’t make any pretenses that the thoughts are polished and [...]

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Getting Back To Nature

June 12, 2009

Professor Janet Smith has a new piece in Our Sunday Visitor discussing the always sensitive topic of homosexuality and same-sex marriage.
There appears to be growing acceptance of homosexual behaviors, to the point that they are becoming normative. I recall a conversation about one of the California initiatives on same-sex marriage. A friend was leading a [...]

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