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California Should Not Pass "Multiple Parents" Bill
There are better ways to protect children without conferring full parental status on three or more people. The doctrine of "equitable estoppel" has been used to prevent adults from shedding responsibility for children they promised to support. More explicit agreements between adults agreeing to shar...
Authoritative Communities : The Scientific Case for Nurturing the Whole Child
Kathy Kovner Kline and David Blankenhorn discuss "Hardwired to Connect"
Kathy Kovner Kline and David Blankenhorn discuss "Hardwired to Connect" during the National Research Institute Speaker Series at Girls and Boys Town
Kids & Depression
Kathleen Kovner Kline discusses "Hardwired to Connect" with Diane Sawyer.
Hardwired to Connect : The New Scientific Case for Authoritative Communities
Written by the Commission on Children at Risk, a panel of leading children's doctors, research scientists and youth service professionals, Hardwired to Connect describes for the nation new strategies to reduce the currently high numbers of U.S. children who are suffering from emotional and behaviora...
Give Stay At-Home Parents Equity
The best solution—the only way for public policy to reflect the principle that child care means caring for children—is to both expand and universalize fully the current child care tax credit, making it available on a nondiscriminatory basis to all families. It would be fair. It would expan...
Shouldn't We Help Parents Be Parents?
Everything we know about children tells us that we should encourage parents to spend more time with their children, not less. Could there possibly be a worse policy than taxing everyone, including millions of struggling at-home parents, to help relatively affluent families put their children in day ...