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  • Why FDR was against Public Employee Unions

    Why FDR was against Public Employee Unions0

    In the case Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, the Supreme Court announced a 4-4 vote on March 29, 2016. The tie was due to the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. For teachers unions around the country it was a great victory that would have likely not happened. Here is how The New York Times describes

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  • Why Father Figures Are Important to Boys (And Why This Idea Is Suddenly Controversial)

    Why Father Figures Are Important to Boys (And Why This Idea Is Suddenly Controversial)0

    • March 22, 2018

    I’ve taught a weekly, inner-city preschool class for some years now. Currently, the class make-up is one-quarter girls and three-quarters boys. Two members of this boy monopoly are a particularly dynamic duo, known for their grand (i.e. loud) entrances, boisterous singing, and penchant for asking to use the bathroom at the most inconvenient times. They

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  • Why Farmers Are Dumping Milk and Letting Produce Rot

    Why Farmers Are Dumping Milk and Letting Produce Rot0

    Many Americans may be surprised and confused to see farmers dumping milk down the drain or letting vegetables rot in their fields. Why would they be destroying food at a time when grocery stores and food pantries struggle to keep pace with surging demand during the coronavirus pandemic? As sociologists with a specialty in agriculture

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  • Why Families With Children Should Consider Owning a Pet

    Why Families With Children Should Consider Owning a Pet1

    We live in an era where pets are increasingly substituted for children. Each year, it’s becoming more common to wish a Happy Mother’s Day or Father’s Day to “parents” of “fur babies.” As a mother of human babies, I find this a bit insulting. Animals can never compare with children. Putting aside the question of pets versus children, let

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  • Why Families are Abandoning Public Schools, Part II

    Why Families are Abandoning Public Schools, Part II0

    • August 27, 2015

    Last week we reported that American families are increasingly choosing homeschooling over public school. This decision stems largely from the reduction in the “‘quality and content of instruction at local public schools.’” In California, however, homeschooling is seeing explosive growth for an additional reason: the mandatory vaccination requirement for students which was signed into law

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  • Why Families are Abandoning Public Schools

    Why Families are Abandoning Public Schools0

    • August 19, 2015

    Unsocialized religious freaks living in the sticks. That’s how many critics view homeschoolers. But according to TIME magazine, it’s an uninformed caricature of an increasingly popular form of education. “Today, as many as 2 million—or 2.5 percent—of the nation’s 77 million school-age children are educated at home, and increasing numbers of them live in cities.

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