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  • Adolescents Have a Fundamental Need to Contribute

    Adolescents Have a Fundamental Need to Contribute0

    No longer children but not yet adults, adolescents need opportunities to learn and prepare for their entrance into the broader society. But, as schooling increasingly extends the adolescent period and teenagers get dismissed as supposedly selfish and irresponsible, has society forgotten an important developmental need of our youth? As a developmental scientist who focuses on

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  • Bad Quotes of Some Bad Presidents

    Bad Quotes of Some Bad Presidents0

    Presidents’ Day is just around the corner. Should we celebrate? People who love liberty and live in a free society don’t bow down and worship politicians. We understand that politicians wield power, to be sure, but we also know they still put their pants on one leg at a time. As President Reagan once put

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  • The Missing Link in Rising Depression Rates?

    The Missing Link in Rising Depression Rates?0

    We’re currently in the throes of winter. Or perhaps that’s second winter, or even third. With the multiple rounds of snow and cold, it’s easy to lose track of where we are. For those of us in northern climes, it’s easy to get the winter blues. A lack of sunshine and yet another snow day

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  • Pushing Up Daisies: Human Beings as Compost

    Pushing Up Daisies: Human Beings as Compost0

    On February 6, 2019, the Washington State Senate passed Senate Bill 5001, which would allow for the composting of human bodies. From The Spokesman-Review out of Spokane, we have this account: The bill “may change the world,” said bill sponsor Sen. Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, adding that Washington could be a leader in environmentally friendly alternatives

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  • Could Parents Who Resist the Transgender Narrative Lose Their Kids?

    Could Parents Who Resist the Transgender Narrative Lose Their Kids?0

    What happens if parents want to stop a child from “transitioning” from their natal sex? Obviously the child needs help because the desire to live as a member of the opposite sex is very distressing. The old medical consensus used to be that the best policy was “watchful waiting”, partly because nearly all children gradually

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  • Choosing to Spend Vacation… Behind Bars

    Choosing to Spend Vacation… Behind Bars0

    South Korea has a unique kind of prison problem. Unlike their neighbors to the north, they don’t have camps full of starving political dissenters. And they don’t have the same epidemic levels of mass incarceration found in America. The problem in South Korea is that people go to prison voluntarily as a way of escaping

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