Father No Longer Knows Best: San Francisco Set to Ban Circumcision


It’s official. A controversial petition effort has succeeded in San Fransisco. This November, the city’s voters will decide whether or not to ban infant circumcision.

Who Parents the Parents? San Fransisco Set to Ban Infant Circumcision


Should parents be able to circumcise their children? Not according to many San Franciscans working to ban the practice.

Food Fight: Chicago Schools Ban Home Packed Lunches Under Students’ Protest


  Little Village Academy, by virtue of the “authority” vested in them by Chicago Public Schools (CPS), is no longer allowing students to bring sack lunches from home. School officials have lost all faith in parents‘ ability and/or willingness to provide “better” nutrition for their children than schools can, so they’ve taken over kids’ nutrition and [...]

Could Bristol Palin’s New PSA Unintentionally Encourage Abortion?


On the campaign trail, Barack Obama famously told a Pennsylvania audience that if his daughters had sex as teenagers, he wouldn’t want them “punished with a baby.”
The message was clear: babies ruin your life.
Later that year, Rebecca Walker described how her mother, author Alice Walker, has a similarly skewed perception of motherhood:
I was 16 when [...]