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Pro-Circumcision Culturally Biased, Not Scientific: Experts
Shockingly, most male infants in the USA still undergo circumcision. Last year the American Academy of Pediatrics put out a report that infant…
Human Rights in Childbirth – From Niche Cause to a Global Movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8w9WNtTAVYU#at=33
Over the past year, I've become a champion of a niche cause. Few people have heard…
Making a Difference
A philanthropist asked: ‘With so many worthy nonprofit organizations and such need, what would you do? Where would you invest ten thousand or ten million…
We Are The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Part One
Human development is ‘model dependent.’ Every generation stands upon the shoulders of the previous. Nature assumes that the adult model, each…
Birth Family History: Sometimes You Get It, Sometimes You Don’t
Among the hundred thousand worries adoptive parents harbor before, during and long after their adoption has been finalized, one of the most common concerns…
Raising Kids to be Nonconforming Nazis
I’m a fervent fan of psychology’s so-called “Obedience Studies.” You know the ones – Stanley Milgram instructing experimental subjects to supposedly deliver 450…
There Are More Ways Than One That Antibiotics End Up In Food
While the big media “meat” of last year, pink slime, a filler in ground beef, got some extreme press exposure, there’s another additive present in meat – and…
Not So Smart After All: Are Smart Technologies Making Us Less Human?
Four twenty-something’s sit together pushing their happy meals around the table oblivious to each other and the environment. Each is enchanted by a different…
For Whom the Bell Tolls: A Response to the Newtown, Conn. Massacre
We are again stunned by a shocking tragedy. How can such a thing happen? The roots of today’s violence were sewn long ago. At the beginning,…
Breastfeeding Commence Controversy!
Breast milk provides nourishment, immunity, and a sense of connection to the child. The World Health Organization recommends six months of exclusive…