Teachers Then and Now Revised

Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com Jul 31, 2013 Dig deeper

Maternity Costs

Signe Wilkinson / Truthdig Jul 3, 2013 Dig deeper

Adam and Eve

Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons Jun 2, 2013 Dig deeper

Sandy Hook Shooting

Gary McCoy, Cagle Cartoons Dec 27, 2012 Dig deeper

Life Is Sacred

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Sep 3, 2012 The giddy, money-drenched, choreographed carnival in Tampa and the one coming up in Charlotte divert us from the real world -- the one steadily collapsing around us.We, as a species, may be doomed. And this is a bitter, bitter fact for a father to digest. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

That’s Our Boy

Mike Luckovich / Truthdig May 21, 2012 Dig deeper

Autism Study Shifts Focus From Nature to Nurture

Staff / Truthdig Jul 5, 2011 Research on autism in recent decades has emphasized the contributing role of genetics, but a new study out of UCSF and Stanford might prove to be a game-changer, ranking environmental factors (e.g., parenting) higher than biology in order of importance. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Goodnight Moon’ It Ain’t

Staff / Truthdig May 17, 2011 This is a story about a very unusual kind of children's book -- or rather, a book that looks a lot like a children's book until you read the fine print, at which time it becomes apparent that author Adam Mansbach actually wrote "Go the Fuck to Sleep" for exasperated (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Parents Behaving Badly

Ruth Marcus / Truthdig Mar 18, 2011 Lawsuit Mom Nicole Imprescia took a quintessentially American approach to raising her child. First, she paid someone else to handle the work for her. Then she sued to get the money back. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

How Mama Grizzlies Say ‘Touché’

Ruth Marcus / Truthdig Feb 11, 2011 Just in case his wife doesn't take Sarah Palin up on her offer, I'll say it: Rick Santorum is a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Parenting: To Push or Not to Push

Ruth Marcus / Truthdig Jan 19, 2011 I come from a family where the "joke," if you came home with a 97 on a math test, was to ask what happened to the other three points. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Study: Zero Child Abuse in Lesbian Households

Staff / Truthdig Nov 11, 2010 Someone call Focus on the Family: A newly published set of findings from a long-running study out of UCLA shows a child abuse rate of zero percent in dual-mommy households. A pool of 78 teenage children with lesbian parents was studied. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )