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Children Should Do Chores

Agnes Howard

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Hating the Teens We Indulge

Agnes Howard

A young woman in the house helps the once idealistic parent to see the error in assuming that people are basically good and rationally calculating, in crediting articulated motives...

In Moral Labor

Agnes Howard

Near the end of Reproduction and Responsibility, the 2004 report of the President’s Council on Bioethics, comes a call to safeguard women and pregnancy. “In an effort to express...

What Else to Expect When You’re Expecting

Agnes Howard

Last Christmas our parish hall displayed a Nativity painting by a local artist, showing a dark-haired woman in a wheelchair holding an infant, with a man in hospital scrubs...