Instead of just saying, "I love my baby and I pick him up because he's adorable and it's so nice to cuddle with him," we practice attachment parenting. We let our children play outside and have age-appropriate freedoms and are labeled free-range parents.

Caring, whether for children or the dying, shouldn't be instrumental. It should be an intrinsic, moral good.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.

What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

To support the people we care about is intrinsic, it is not instrumental. It's not something we do because we're hoping to get some other outcome.