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...parenting psychologist for more than 20 years, I am struck by how often parents are overcontrolling until their child hits adolescence. As soon as said child shows signs of rebellion, many parents abdicate all control because the fight becomes too difficult. Teens are now let loose to drink, smoke and experiment sexually with little guidance. Since they were not taught to develop internal controls, they have great difficulty with impulse control. Really, being a little less controlling when your children are young and a little more so when they are older is a much better formula...
...Spotlight on the new mammogram guidelines [Nov. 30]: Let me see if I have this straight. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force felt that the cost of women experiencing "risks" like anxiety outweighed the benefits of mammogram screening for women under age 50? Despite the fact that yearly screening for this age group "unquestionably" reduced the risk of dying 15%? I am 41, and let me be the first to tell Dr. Diana Petitti--who found the public backlash "surprising"--that I find it more anxiety-provoking to know that my risk of dying from breast cancer...
...Let us be clear: The amendment in no way makes abortion illegal. Abortions would still be legal and widely available; however, they would require the woman to either have supplemental insurance or to pay out of pocket. There are two things to note from the start. First, the state government could provide the supplemental insurance. Many states offer such coverage to supplement Medicaid, which also does not cover abortions. Second, in 2001, the average abortion at 10 weeks of gestation cost $ 372, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion non-profit group...
...However, let us discuss for the sake of argument the small subset of women for whom the Stupak amendment would make abortions prohibitively expensive. The claim that this fact deprives them of their “right to choose” merits further inspection. First, it implies that abortion is the kind of thing that women not only have a right to obtain, but also that they have a right to obtain regardless of whether they can pay for it. To illustrate the difference, this argument likens abortion to the right to an attorney...
...officials had been optimistic that even if the Honduran Congress refused to restore Zelaya before last Sunday's election, it would at least vote after the election to let him finish the remaining two months of his term. It would be a good-faith sign that the country was returning to constitutional order. Instead the legislators, emboldened by the success of the coup, poked both Obama and constitutional order in the eye again this week. Coup-happy forces in other Latin American countries can only feel emboldened as well. (See pictures of post-coup violence in Honduras...