Scott Altman (USC): Parental Control Rights. A Brooklyn at war with itself: In a borough where two conservative notions, competitiveness and traditionalist purity, flourish, the tension is made more apparent by parenting. Child care isn’t just a personal problem — it’s an economic one, too: Suzy Khimm on why the government should subsidize daycare for millions of American families. More hands to rock the cradle: Both parents should be paid to spend time at home with their babies. If we want to help working mothers, we could start with paid paternity leave. Matt Bruenig on how the best way to save money is to stop rich people from having kids (and more). The worst parents ever: Michael Mooney goes inside the story of Ethan Couch and the “affluenza” phenomenon. Parents are all useless for a prime twenty years of their lives; raising children with one or two parents is terrible and inefficient and rotten in dozens of ways, for all of us, and a huge waste of your own time and energy, which you could be expending on something meaningful.
