All Posts Tagged With: "parenting"
The Love of Power vs. the Power of Love
Lawrence Reed is president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a free-market research and educational organization in Midland, Michigan. “We look forward to the time when the power of love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.” So declared British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone [...]
1May2007 | Lawrence W. Reed | 2 comments | ContinuedAn Open Letter to My Parents
Dear Mom and Dad: I suppose I’m typical: not until my own child came along did I reflect seriously on the sacrifices you made and on the challenges you confronted in raising my siblings and me. There’s so much to thank you for. But here I focus on what is surely your most precious gift [...]
1Jul2002 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 3 comments | ContinuedLove and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn’t Work
Reviewed by Ryan H. Sager In Love and Economics, Jennifer Roback Morse explores territory where many libertarians fear to tread: The importance of the family to civil society. In her view, libertarians have spent so much time making the case for the autonomy of the individual that they have become reluctant to consider the importance [...]
1Jul2002 | Jennifer Roback Morse | 0 comments | ContinuedThere’s No Place Like Work by Brian C. Robertson
Spence Publishing Company · 2000 · 206 pages · $24.95 Reviewed by Robert Batemarco This book is about the choices American parents struggle to make regarding the balance between work and home life. The author, Brian C. Robertson, a research fellow at the New Economy Information Service, has found those choices, over the past four [...]
1Aug2001 | Robert Batemarco | 1 comment | ContinuedToward an Educational Renaissance
Chris Cardiff is a homeschooling father of three spirited girls, a trustee of the California Homeschool Network, and a vice president of AOL. None of these groups—including his family—necessarily endorses his views. Can parents be trusted to educate their own children? The underlying assumption of America’s vast government school system is that they cannot. Yet [...]
1May2001 | Chris Cardiff | 2 comments | ContinuedUniversal Values
I’m writing these words on my son’s first day at school. Well, really, today is his first day at pre-school. Thomas is only three. Nevertheless, in just a few minutes he and his mommy will walk a few blocks to the Immaculate Conception School here in Irvington, meet his teacher and classmates, and set foot [...]
1Dec2000 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 2 comments | ContinuedAsk the Children: What America’s Children Really Think About Working Parents
Let me be first to admit that a review of Ask the Children seems out of place in the pages of Ideas on Liberty. Ellen Galinsky travels outside libertarian circles. She has filled her book with cheerful anecdotes, not policy prescriptions, and she has found audience with viewers of the Today Show, not the Lehrer [...]
1Jul2000 | Darcy Ann Olsen | 0 comments | ContinuedCan the Free Market Provide Public Education?
These remarks were presented at the Children’s Scholarship Fund conference “Freedom and Equal Opportunity in Education,” January 12, 2000, in New York City. The short answer, of course, is: yes, look around. Right now, private enterprise and nonprofit organizations provide all manner of education—from comprehensive schools with classes in the traditional academic subjects, to specialized [...]
1Jun2000 | Sheldon Richman | 19 comments | ContinuedCome to America, John Paul
David Boaz is executive vice president of the Cato Institute and editor of The Libertarian Reader and Liberating Schools. You don’t have to be Catholic to admire Pope John Paul II’s role in undermining communism in Europe and his courageous visit to Cuba last year. Who else in the world could make Fidel Castro broadcast [...]
1Feb1999 | David Boaz | 1 comment | ContinuedObscenity: The Case for a Free Market in Free Speech
Mr. Harris, tfharris@HiWAAY.net, is the news librarian for a major daily newspaper in Alabama. Despite the unambiguous language of the First Amendment, speech—of all kinds—has been regulated by government—at all levels—throughout the history of the United States. The first federal attempt to circumvent the First Amendment’s prohibition of laws “abridging the freedom of speech, or [...]
1Sep1996 | T. Franklin Harris Jr. | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Spread of Education Before Compulsion: Britain and America in the Nineteenth Century
Most persons agree that children need the protection of the law against potential abuse by parents. But evidence shows that only a small minority of parents turn out to be delinquent. In practice it is very seldom indeed that governments remove children from their family home. At the end of the 1980s fewer than two [...]
1Jul1996 | Edwin G. West | 3 comments | Continued-
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