August 2010
3 posts
Preventing Teen Pregnancy By Addressing...
In her groundbreaking piece When Teen Pregnancy Is No Accident, Lynn Harris reported on a phenomenon that clinicians and educators who work with teens are starting to notice on a systemic level: dating violence is often a factor in teen pregnancy. Researchers have coined the term “reproductive coercion” to describe this form of abuse. Lynn wrote,
Two new studies have quantified what...
Does Sarah Palin really satisfy an appetite for...
Not in the sense that a female Democratic candidate could seamlessly follow her girl-power mold, writes Betsy Reed:
But it’s not as if more assiduous Democratic efforts to recruit and support female candidates would have satisfied the same “appetite for female leadership” that Palin does, thereby preempting her astonishing ascension. What Palin satisfies, rather, is an appetite for right-wing...
