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…to give your child, is that going to hurt their life outcomes; is campaign spending as important as everybody thinks it is? LAUER: So what’s freakonomics, technically? Mr. LEVITT: Well,…
…to give your child, is that going to hurt their life outcomes; is campaign spending as important as everybody thinks it is? LAUER: So what’s freakonomics, technically? Mr. LEVITT: Well,…
…and you have absolutely no choice. How does this play out? As an example, when my eldest child was applying to pre-school, I had my mother’s cousin, a prominent child…
…that statistic is accurate. BENNETT: Well, I don’t think it is either, I don’t think it is either, because first of all, there is just too much that you don’t…
The answer is at least one. This morning I saw Barack Obama dropping off his child at nursery school. Obama is the junior senator from Illinois who exploded onto the…
…In the chapter “What Makes A Perfect Parent?” it says that changing schools does not have an impact on the child. This is untrue, as i moved from Canada to…
…officer. If your pregnancy is advanced enough that you know the sex of your child and have named him or her, refer to the child as your son/daughter and use…
As many readers of this blog may recall, we have written about child car seats and how they seemingly provide no safety advantage over seat belts for children 2 and…
…like. Shall I use your office address below? Thanks, SJD _________________________ email #2: This next one is hard-nosed and thoughtful — the sort of email that we like to get…
…transform a child from this: to this: and that seemed like an awfully good way to spend $250. (You can read about this little girl Shiva’s story here.) I had…
…yet been approved by the F.D.A. for children under 5, but based on these articles, that sounds very likely. Dr. Robert B. Belshe, the lead author of the study, is…
After misinterpreting the data on the side-impact crash tests it ran on child car seats, Consumer Reports is changing its methodology on such tests, enlisting the help of experts in…
One of the most controversial small points in Freakonomics was the claim that early childhood test scores are not correlated to the amount a child is read to at home….
…about doing it? Definitely not. What programs like No Child Left Behind have changed, however, is the stake that higher levels of government have in getting rid of cheating. State…
…the future. Poverty and inadequate family resources are a key piece of the problem. One in four children of color lives in poverty. Two of three black children and one…
Is the Internet really filled with pedophilic sexual predators lurking in a social network or chat room near your child? Not necessarily, according to 3 nationwide surveys done by the…
One of my earliest and happiest memories was being released from a hospital oxygen tent when I was a small child. I had developed pneumonia and was in pretty bad…
…children, each daughter increases a congress person’s propensity to vote liberally on reproductive rights issues.” For example, looking at representatives with two children, she finds that N.O.W. (National Organization for…
…Humans are obviously more like apes than like monkeys. Q: Does religiously motivated rejection of evolution (e.g. creationism) ever get in your way when working? A: I don’t experience this…
…and revisit information on sleep, nappy changes, feeding (both breast-milk and solids), medicines, and pumping. Keeping track of your child’s evolving sleeping patterns (via the internet or even your iPhone)…
…Palin the time she needed to embrace the child’s special needs, wouldn’t you think that time would also have been valuable to her children for the same reason? And even…
…that seems like the best move. It still sounds like you would be “all set” well before you are 50. Q: What’s the best way to buy a car? New…
…your child will have, but this range must be centered on an IQ of 100. Any IQ within the range that you choose is equally likely to occur. What range…
…baby booties — for $4,050. She doesn’t care what name the buyer chooses, but hopes it’s not one that will get her child’s “butt kicked.” The seller writes she did…
…the child’s gender (for example, “Do you want the Digisports or the Hello Kitty toy?”). 3. McDonald’s asked whether the Happy Meal was for a boy or a girl. 4….
…to choose your child’s sex? The Wall Street Journal reports on a Los Angeles clinic that will soon let parents choose the sex of their unborn children. Their designer options…
Arthur Rothstein, U.S. Office of War Information Child of a migratory farm laborer in the field during the harvest of the community center’s cabbage crop, FSA labor camp, Texas, circa…
…local German authorities must also approve first names, which have to match the child’s gender and “must not expose the child to ridicule or discrimination.” (Germany is hardly the first…
…and amplification. What About the Children? It can be argued that depriving children of parents in order to incarcerate the parents for the purpose of punishment is itself a criminogenic…
…parents carry young children in their laps, making them buy a ticket for their children instead, so that every person could wear a seatbelt. The F.A.A. refused, saying that the…
…other words, what were they thinking, and why did they think they could get away with it? A. Any comments that I might make about what individuals were thinking when…