Congratulations to representative Dana Rohrabacher, 56, and his wife Rhonda, 34, who gave birth to triplets last month. As we tend to suspect when a couple has triplets, the new parents used the services of a fertility clinic
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Growing Up in Black and White
“Mommy, I want to be white.” Imagine my wife’s anguish and alarm when our beautiful brown-skinned three- year-old daughter made that declaration. We thought we were doing everything right to develop her self-esteem and positive racial identity.
Study: PTSD Survivors’ Children May Have Genetic Scars
The Holocaust is a crime that never seems to quit.
The Education Crisis Everyone Is Ignoring
On Tuesday, when President Obama traveled to El Paso, Texas, to again make the case for immigration reform, he talked about the tragedy of a policy that denies children the chance to earn a college education because of the way that their parents entered the country. But in many ways, we’ve already failed our fastest growing ethnic group, Hispanics Americans, long before they reach college and regardless of whether they were born here or not.
Five Biggest Myths About College Admissions
Now that acceptance and rejection letters have all been mailed, students and parents are taking stock of their lot. Some are happy, but a great many more probably feel disappointed.
After the Royal Wedding: Why Kate and William’s Royal Marriage Will Last
The royal family has proved yet again that it’s rather good at weddings. At marriage, however, it sucks.
Education: Nature v. Nurture
Few years ago a psychologist named Harold Manville Skeels, a professor at University of Iowa, was assigned by the State to advise the State orphanage.
Education: Well Begun Is Half Done
In the next two months, some 1,400 teen-age boys and their parents all over the U.S. will tremulously collect the credentials—IQ scores, grades, test results, recommendations, interviews—needed to apply for admission to what they are sure is the nation's best prep school: Massachusetts' Andover.
Reagan’s Daughter Patti Remembers Father: Grace Under Fire
Several years into my father’s journey down the narrowing road of Alzheimer’s, when he was still going out for walks, I looped my arm through his one afternoon and walked with him along a leafy street near my parents’ home. A few people recognized him, waved and called out, “Hello, Mr.
McDonald’s Happy Meals: Group Threatens to Sue over Toys
Millions of parents know the drill. Stevie wants to go to McDonald’s for a Happy Meal, because along with his burger and fries comes the ultimate little kid payoff: a toy