Kay Mathiesen (Arizona): The Internet, Children, and Privacy: The Case Against Parental Monitoring. Deborah Lupton reviews Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate by Christine Overall (and more). Not wanting kids is entirely normal: Jessica Valenti on why the ingrained expectation that women should desire to become parents is unhealthy (and more). I'm not a “Mother First”: Jessica Valenti on why women need to put personhood before parenthood. From artificial wombs to men and women being able to reproduce entirely alone, Aarathi Prasad says science is rewriting the rules of sex and human reproduction — what would that mean for our ideas of family and parenthood? Julian Savulescu says creating so-called designer babies could be considered a "moral obligation" as it makes them grow up into "ethically better children". Which matters more, cognitive ability or motivation? An excerpt from Paul Tough's How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough. Razib Khan on the waning of the nuclear family. Marcia Segelstein interviews Jennifer Roback Morse, founder and president of the Ruth Institute, which seeks "to promote lifelong married love to college students by creating an intellectual and social climate favorable to marriage".
