Familienpolitik

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Corporal punishment of children is slowing disappearing in many countries. This Economist article says the U.S. may soon be one of the only wealthy countries and one of the only countries in the Americas to continue to allow spanking.
In recent years, several European countries (Greece and Portugal, for example) have quietly abolished parental smacking [...]

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I’ve been following this issue closely since it first was reported. You can see a copy of the original affidavit here. Now the Texas Supreme Court has ruled that Child Protective Services had no right to remove the children from the YFZ ranch, upholding a lower court’s ruling. This CNN.com article goes [...]

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Doug Kmiec responds to Eric Posner’s response to Kmiec’s blog post recommending that the U.S. pay families to have children the way they do in Europe.  I blogged about the discussion and gave my two cents on European family support plans here.
Kmiec defends the continued relevance of marriage, saying
In its traditional form, marriage transforms by [...]

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In case my baby bottle video didn’t convince you that what we feed our infants has a lot to do with bigger events in our society, read this excellent Modern Love column about a woman trying to get her chilled breast milk through airport security while on a business trip.

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