A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity.

Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?