Author: unitedfamilies

Baby Steps Is getting married and having a family a political act?

I read this book on my honeymoon. Loyal readers might have noticed my byline’s absence for a couple weeks. Worry not for a wife abandoned even then to professional obligations; I only began Domestic Extremist on our trip. It seemed amusingly fitting, as we celebrated the newest triumph in our own careers of domestic extremism and the merger of our operations.

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Teen Mental Health: A Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore

The remarkable social reformer, Jane Addams, once said, “We all know that each generation has its own test, the current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements.” In these moments, she added, “to pride one’s self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.”

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