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There Is No Magic Bullet for Raising Birth Rates April 16, 2024
The influence of religion on fertility is undeniable. Since the dawn of Western society — first through various Pagan European faiths and then to Christianity — an everlasting purpose created a duty to carry on a legacy on earth. Through a spiritual ...
For Every Novelist, an Alt April 12, 2024
I was never one for diaries. In middle school, I tried keeping one for a while; it soon became a long list of girls I hated. Very quickly my mother found it and read it. She summoned me to her room one afternoon to review it with her. “Don’t say hate...
Rob Henderson on Reliving His Traumatic Childhood April 11, 2024
When the American writer Rob Henderson was a baby, his mother would tie him to a chair so that she could get high uninterrupted. He was taken into foster care in Los Angeles at the age of three. His mother, who was South Korean, was deported and he l...
The Anger and the Resolve April 03, 2024
In 1947, the English pediatrician Donald Winnicott listed the reasons why it might be natural for a mother to hate her baby. His intention was to challenge the inherited idea that mothers spontaneously take to their children and, in this way, ensure...
