From Surveillance and Society, a special issue on surveillance, children and childhood. Annette Appell (WUSTL): Ghosts in the Postmodern Family. Menelaos Apostolou (Nicosia): Parent-Offspring Conflict over Mating: The Case of Mating Age. Snack bags and a regular paycheck — the happy life of a Swedish dad: The bliss of an 18-month, paid, Swedish paternity leave. From the Scavenger, AJ Zachary on why she helps teenagers get secret abortions. What happened to losing? Today's kids live in a world of scoreless games and trophies for everyone — when we cushion them from defeat at the early ages, are they less prepared to cope when real competition kicks in? Sex for beginners: A review of It's Perfectly Normal by Robie H. Harris. A review of Radical Homemaking: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture by Shannon Hayes and The Urban Homestead by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen. The Third Variable: Does sexualized media encourage sexual activity? From Touchstone, Mormon vampires in the Garden of Eden: John Granger on what the bestselling Twilight series has in store for young readers; bad books for kids: David Mills on a guide to the world of youth literature and what you can do about it; and Mark T. Mitchell on the oddity of giving children a moral imagination. Lindsay Beyerstein on the politics of teen sex stats. Doing Good and Doing Well: How do you teach virtue to a skeptical generation? A review of At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson. A review of The iConnected Parent: Staying Connected to Your College Kids (and Beyond) While Letting Them Grow Up by Barbara K. Hofer and Abigail Sullivan Moore. A review of Sex and the American Teenager: Seeing through the Myths and Confronting the Issues by R. Murray Thomas. Are two Mommies better than a Mom-and-Dad combo?
