Annie Holmquist served as the editor of Intellectual Takeout from 2018 to 2022. When not writing or editing, she enjoys reading, gardening, and time with family and friends.
Over the weekend, New York Times author KJ Dell’Antonia penned an article on children and chores. Such a subject is nothing new and Dell’Antonia acknowledges this. The problem, she notes, is the fact that many parents know how helpful chores are for child well-being, but then avoid giving them. Instead, they make excuses, arguing that
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By now, it’s a well-known fact that American adults don’t read. Fourteen percent can’t read at all. Thirteen percent can’t read proficiently. And according to Pew, one in four adults didn’t even bother to pick up a book in the last year. But these are adults, right? They’re busy with work and parenting and social
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As a colleague of mine recently observed, today’s high school students seem to be much more prone to choosing college alternatives than they were a few years ago. Such observation is not a figment of imagination, but a reality across the globe, a fact which various sources confirm. The first source is a poll out
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A recent edition of the NPR program “Hidden Brain” asked an increasingly prevalent question: “When Did Marriage Become So Hard?” The idea that marriage is difficult is underscored by the fact that nearly 40 to 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce. And although divorce rates are supposedly falling, the numbers of divorced couples
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