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...look a little closer at these findings, they start to seem a bit murky. To begin with, observes Dr. Den Trumbull, a Montgomery, Ala., pediatrician who is vocal in the spanking debate, the mothers ranged in age from 14 to 21. That is hardly a representative slice of American motherhood. Moreover, those who spanked did so on average twice a week. These factors, says Trumbull, plus the fact that some of the kids were as old as nine, "are markers of a dysfunctional family in my mind, and in the minds of most psychologists and pediatricians...
...quickly in a free society controversy becomes consensus only to become controversy again when the new conventional wisdom jells. Take the national debate about divorce. In 1992 Vice President Dan Quayle made his infamous Murphy Brown speech railing against single motherhood and was ridiculed by almost every social observer to the left of Pat Robertson. Less than a year later, social historian Barbara Dafoe Whitehead published an essay in the Atlantic Monthly titled "Dan Quayle Was Right." Citing studies that tracked the development of children raised by single parents, she identified broken families as Public Enemy No. 1, responsible...
...hard to imagine controversy over stock-index funds, investments so sensible and pure that they are practically motherhood on Wall Street. The problem, it seems, is that this particular mother has consumed a few too many bonbons and grown to a crushing weight. Money has been flowing into stock-index funds in torrents in recent years as investors have caught on to their appeal: index funds cost little to run, compared to actively managed funds, so more of the profits are passed on to investors. Index funds are also easy to track since they move in near perfect tandem with...
Education and Motherhood...
...fact a dangerous aberration. Your comment that "Ellen is far from the first TV series to take on a controversial social issue" is also revealing. Any implied parallel between the dramatizing of Lucy's pregnancy and of Ellen's moral deviance is a real slap in the face to motherhood and the family. ROBERT COTTRILL Pambrun, Saskatchewan...