I hope I can live this down. Someday, I’ll be able to look Erin right in the eyes and tell her that it didn’t matter, really, in the long run. Maybe I’ll be able to use it as an object lesson for Adrian. He needs to know that part of being a man means you…
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Parenting in the Digital Age: Two Problems with Technology
We’ve been hearing, and worrying, for years about the irresponsible and scary ways kids and teens use digital technology. They send inappropriate, and permanently scarring, texts and Facebook updates. They engage in cyber-bullying. They record video of themselves beating the hell out of each other and then upload it boastfully to video-sharing sites. They have…
Cancer Affects Women in the Military More than Other Americans
This is an abhorrent truth about cancer: It rewards those servicewomen who survive wars in service to their country with a doubled cancer risk. A 2010 study of the VA Cancer Registry finds that women who serve as twice as likely to develop cancer, they have lower breast cancer survival rates, and they were diagnosed…