Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | yesterday
From liberal Democrat David Blankenhorn Marriage is society’s most pro-child institution. In 2002 — just moments before it became highly unfashionable to say so — a team of researchers from Child Trends, a nonpartisan research center, reported that "family structure clearly matters for children, and the family structure that helps children the most is a [...]
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
Back to David Blankenhorn again , and, picking up where we left off, he comes up with this howler: For these reasons, children have the right, insofar as society can make it possible, to know and to be cared for by the two parents who brought them into this world. The foundational human rights document in the world today regarding children, the 1989 U.N. Convention on the Rights of the...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
Back to David Blankenhorn: Blankenhorn quotes a “research brief” from Child Trends on the ideal family structure for children: In 2002 - just moments before it became highly unfashionable to say so - a team of researchers from Child Trends, a nonpartisan research center, reported that “family structure clearly matters for children, and the family structure that helps children the...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
[This is the first of a series of guest posts, reprinted from Hunter at Random .] David Blankenhorn periodically comes out with an OpEd against same-sex marriage, apparently with the idea in mind that if you keep repeating arguments that have already been refuted, that makes them irrefutable. I was alerted to this one by this post at Pam’s House Blend. Ol cranky does a decent job of countering...
Gay Patriot (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
... difference defined marriage. In the two best books published in recent years on marriage, only David Blankenhorn coming out against gay marriage in The Future of Marriage addresses gender difference. Jonathan Rauch, in his excellent book making the case for gay marriage , brings it up only to dismiss it . In order to make a better case for gay marriage, advocates of expanding the...
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
... answer, what is? Thrift is the “miracle cure” for the economic ills of our society, according to David Blankenhorn, author of a new book about the misunderstood word. “Thrift: A Cyclopedia,” is a collection of historical quotes and images – many of which pay homage to a word that today is narrowly defined by Americans to mean “to be cheap” or “to save.” Many consumers think of thrift...
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
A call to shop is wholly inappropriate when it's all too clear that spending beyond our means with the help of easy credit contributed to our current financial mess. Notice that the president hasn't asked the American public to hit the malls this time.So if consumer spending isn't the answer, what is'Thrift is the "miracle cure" for the economic ills of our society, according to David Blankenhorn,...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
... silly tropes always advanced by people who claim to be “sympathetic”? That’s almost as good as David Blankenhorn claiming to be a liberal Democrat.) Lemieux also does a number on Megan McArdle . McArdle’s core argument echoes Rosen’s, which echoes all the “sympathetic” right-wingers who think we should wait for Daddy to give us a present. Using the courts to establish a right to gay...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... answer, what is'Thrift is the "miracle cure" for the economic ills of our society, according to David Blankenhorn, author of a new book about the misunderstood word. "Thrift: A Cyclopedia," is a collection of historical quotes and images -- many of which pay homage to a word that today is narrowly defined by Americans to mean "to be cheap" or "to save." Many misguided consumers think...
