America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

Work-family conflicts-the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child-would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men expe…