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Children Should Do Chores
That children should do chores might seem so obvious as to be unworthy of mention. I considered the question in a recent Boston Globe article . No suspense:...
Hating the Teens We Indulge
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
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
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...
