I’m convinced that if Texas Child Protection Agency would have acted more reasonably, the court decision today would have been completely different. Unfortunately the extreme panic reaction of the state expose some of the children for future abuse, and does very little to protect them.
A Texas state court of appeals ruled Thursday afternoon that the [...]
A while ago I posted about a mother that allow her young child to ride the NY subway alone. I read her op-ed with a mix of admiration and hesitation. While I do agree with the main premise that we underestimate the abilities of our children and overestimate the risks, I am not sure where [...]
This short video is a good example for the difference between bad choices, or at least odd one, and illegal choice. The fact that we might not approve of the practice of throwing babies from hight doesn’t make it illegal. Since there is no physical abuse the practice is, and should be, legal. On the [...]
There is very little in common between the crazy FLDS cult, which is now all over the news, and Professor Christopher Ratte and his wife Professor Claire Zimmerman. And yet it is obvious for most of us that taking all the children from the FLDS compound in Texas was justified but we nodding our heads [...]
The story about the polygamist compound in Texas will probably be material for movies - a mysterious phone call, wired cult that is most likely damaging its children and abusing it women and the heroic raid of the authorities to save the children. Should the authorities have acted upon the phone call - unequivocally yes. [...]
We didn’t have subway in my small hometown, in the Israeli desert, but the norm was the same. I always wonder about the level of independence that our parents gave us compare to what we are giving to our children. My mother claim that the world was very much different twenty years ago, but that [...]