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When you call parents, you want them to "extract the cruelty" from their bullying children, says Laura Kavesh, a child psychologist in Evanston, Ill. "But many parents are blown away by the idea of their child being cruel. They won't believe it." In a recent police-department survey in Oak Harbor, Wash., 89% of local high school students said they had engaged in bullying behavior. Yet only 18% of parents thought their children would act as bullies...
There was little in your report that addressed the fact that most priests serve with integrity. You quoted clinical psychologist Thomas Plante as saying "about 5% of the Catholic clergy have had involvement with minors." If this is true, then why don't the other 95% deserve more than a fleeting mention? The majority of Catholic priests are innocent and have done nothing wrong. JOHN CIESLA Fort Lewis, Wash...
Allison Rosen, a clinical psychologist in New York City who has made it her mission to make sure her female patients know the fertility odds, disagrees. "This is not a case of male doctors' wanting to keep women barefoot and pregnant," she says. "You lay out the facts, and any particular individual woman can then make her choices." Madsen of A.I.A. argues that the biological imperative is there whether women know it or not. "I cringe when feminists say giving women reproductive knowledge is pressuring them to have a child," she says. "That's simply not true. Reproductive freedom...
Peter Goldenthal, a psychologist in Philadelphia, has also experienced the problems of a rocky family relationship. He dedicated his book Why Can't We Get Along? Healing Adult Sibling Relationships (Wiley) to his younger brother Lance. "We fought physically when we were boys, and we argued a lot when we were young men," says Goldenthal, 53. "Now we argue once in a while, but the whole complexion of the relationship is different...
...member of the Agassiz Neighborhood Council (ANC), Goldberg is a very well-spoken woman. She speaks with all the precision and diplomacy of her profession (she’s a school psychologist...