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The forgotten feminist dystopias that predicted our present

Parents / Mom's Advice / Oct 13, 2025

At a time when women’s rights are once again threatened, it’s worth looking back at what feminist authors warned us about decades ago. When Margaret Atwood published "The Handmaid’s Tale" in 1985, she was part of a powerful wave of women writing feminist dystopian science fiction, which we now call speculative fiction.

The late 20th ...Read more

Belonging after brokenness: One woman’s search for truth and healing

Parents / Mom's Advice / Oct 13, 2025

Wendy B. Correa’s new memoir "My Pretty Baby: Seeking Truth and Finding Healing," details a fascinating life defined by resilience and accomplishment in the face of childhood trauma and a dysfunctional family environment. As Correa deftly shows in this writing debut, life is not so much about what happens to you as it is what you do with what ...Read more

When It Comes to Halloween, I'm on the Supply Side of the Economy

Parents / Georgia Garvey / Oct 11, 2025

I'm told that ours is a market economy -- driven by supply and demand, or end-stage capitalism at its finest.

But I find that around this time of year, as plastic skeletons hang from suburban rooftops and air-stuffed Jack-O-Lanterns droop in the October wind, things get a bit more banana republic. Or, more of a Banana Laffy Taffy Republic, I ...Read more

Parents Shouldn't Live in Fear of Child Protective Services

Parents / Lenore Skenazy / Oct 09, 2025

"Let me tell you about Alice," said Mariel Mussack, an attorney with Community Legal Services, testifying in the Pennsylvania state Legislature on Monday. Alice, Mussack said, is a single mom of two who was also caretaker for her younger brother, aged 13. When she needed to run a brief errand, Alice had her brother babysit her nearly 1-year-...Read more