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There are some rights so deep and protections so inalienable that we don't mention them, and neither did the Founding Fathers. If pressed, I would have guessed that parent-child communications fall into that constitutional sweet spot, the Ninth Amendment, which acknowledges rights so sacred they don't need to be enumerated. But that's the lawyer in me reaching. Like almost every other parent in America, I simply took for granted--until I saw Marcia Lewis psychologically strip-searched last week on what she knows about the sex life of her daughter Monica Lewinsky--that the government could...
...Starr's defenders argue that he is only following standard procedure. But does anyone remember Ted Bundy's mother being called? Or John Gotti's? Surely the parent-child bond is equal to that between husband and wife. Children should be encouraged to confide in their parents, to tell us their secrets, to turn to us for help, in complete confidentiality. It's because we know so much that we shouldn't, by all we hold dear, be made to divulge it. The Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination ought to include the right not to incriminate a child...
Whereas in many other countries and cultures, the nuclear family survives a university education and often well beyond one, whether under one physical roof or simply in the same city, in America, the dynamics of the parent-child relationship changes forever once high school is over. In France, for example, it is very common for students to attend university in their home city and live with their parents, or to spend another year at home preparing their Baccalaureate. Similarly in Israel, 18-year-olds who enter the army often split their time between the base and home, and then live...
What is being done for (or perhaps to) today's unconventional children? Those who don't fit into standard or acceptable modes of teacher-student or parent-child interaction are still obliged to function within those structures, somehow, someway. We all know kids who fit the mold of not fitting the mold. We volunteer with them, we babysit them, and perhaps at one point we were even one of them...
...Buchenwald) who pioneered in the treatment of emotionally troubled children. In 18 books (including Love Is Not Enough and The Uses of Enchantment) and dozens of articles and TV appearances, he was an all-knowing guru to millions on topics ranging from the meaning of fairy tales to parent-child relations...