Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.

I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.

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.

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.

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

It's smart to be friends with one's sex partner but dumb to have sex with one's friends.

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