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...adoption research has said for many years. What this new study challenges are the reasons behind this phenomenon. In the past, most researchers have dismissed the adoptees' disproportionate number of behavioral or mental health problems as a result of adoptive parents' demographic trends. That is, since people who adopt tend to be wealthier and more educated, they are likelier to access psychiatric care if their kids exhibit symptoms of, say, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Also, through the adoption process, these parents are generally more familiar with mental health services than non-adoptive parents. Yet after studying more than...
...Upper East Side or Pasadena—traveling 60 miles inwards to Athol, Massachusetts might entail more of a lifestyle shock than traveling 4,700 miles outwards to Athens, Greece. Too many study abroad programs operate in elite enclaves, little Harvard facsimiles. Those that don’t tend to bear the suspicious scent of noblesse oblige...
...Harvard, MIT and the area-hospitals tend to be consistent producers of economic growth because we don’t tend to be affected by markets,” Casey said...
...Taxpayers should be treated with decency: To assume that the entire nation holds law or economics degrees is not only practically problematic and costly, but hardly good manners. As voters, Americans tend to keep their economic interests in mind when they shop for the right candidate. All presidential hopefuls should realize that tax reform is essential for the country’s success—and could be the key to their...
...only survived, but enormously prospered.” Franzen said only that he was “disappointed” with Wood’s review of “The Corrections,” but quickly took aim at critics more generally. “The reviews tend to be repetitive and tend to be so filled with error that they’re kind of unbearable to read, even the nice ones,” Franzen said. “The most upsetting thing nowadays is the feeling that there’s no one out there responding...