Archive for the ‘parenting’ Category
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Who's getting married, who isn't and why
May 15
Guest: Andrew Cherlin In honor of the start of wedding season, we’re going to spend the hour talking about the state of the American marriage. Despite the odds (the U.S. Census Bureau says roughly 50% of first marriages [...]
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Should refusing medical care for children be considered neglect?
May 14
Guests: Paul Offit and Shawn Peters Eight-month old Brandon Schaible died last month after his parents relied on prayer instead of medical care to treat their sick baby. The Schaibles, who live in Philadelphia and are members of [...]
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Plan B, politics and parents
May 8
Guests: Jessica Arons and Joan Vennochi Back in 2011, in a controversial decision, Health and Human Services Secretary Katherine Sebelius announced that the morning after pill, known as Plan B One-Step, would be available over-the-counter only to women [...]
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"Far from the Tree" with author Andrew Solomon
April 17
Guest: Andrew Solomon In his new book, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, writer ANDREW SOLOMON tells the complicated, sometimes heartbreaking and oftentimes compelling stories of parents who not only learn to cope [...]
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Babies, language and the developing brain
April 15
Guests: Roberta Golinkoff, Trude Haecker Talk to your baby – it’s critical for their developing brains. And researchers now know that the choice and number of words that parents use matter. Early exposure to language helps predict kids' [...]
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When sibling rivalry follows us into adulthood
April 12
[REBROADCAST] For most of us, the bickering and battling with our brothers and sisters when we were children become amusing pieces of our family history. But for others, unresolved hurts and jealousies accompany us into adulthood and have [...]
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Household chores — figuring out who does what and why it's so hard
April 2
Guests: Wendy Klein, Andy Hinds, Emily Oster Let's be honest….no one likes doing chores, but the good news is much has changed at home when it comes to sharing the responsibilities of raising children and maintaining a home. [...]
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Marlene Zuk on "Paleofantasy"
April 1
Guest: Marlene Zuk Have you tried barefoot running, the Caveman Diet or attachment parenting? Taking lessons from our ancient ancestors has become all the rage lately. But evolutionary biologist MARLENE ZUK warns that our Paleolithic past was far [...]
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The history and legacy of mass incarceration in the U.S.
February 27
GUESTS: KEITH REEVES, JANE SIEGEL, HEATHER ANN THOMPSON As a result of stricter drug laws and more rigid sentencing guidelines enacted in the 1970s, the U.S. prison population has grown by 500 percent over the past thirty years. [...]
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Vow: A Memoir of Marriage (And Other Affairs)
February 22
GUEST: WENDY PLUMP WENDY PLUMP found out from a friend that her husband was cheating on her. What made it even worse was that he had a child with his mistress and this second family lived a few [...]
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The secrets of happy families with Bruce Feiler
February 19
Guest: BRUCE FEILER For his new book, The Secrets of Happy Families, Bruce Feiler used his experience as an investigative reporter to discover new techniques and ideas to make contemporary family life more functional, more meaningful and more [...]
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School closures and safety
February 6
The Philadelphia School District’s proposed plan to close 37 public schools by the end of the school year has some people worried about safety. Under the new plan, 17,000 students will be relocated and will have to find [...]
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The early causes and lasting impact of the education and knowledge gap
January 31
For their newly-published book, Giving Our Children A Fighting Chance, education researchers DONNA CELANO and SUSAN NEUMAN studied two Philadelphia neighborhoods — one in Chestnut Hill and the other in North Philadelphia — and found that children living [...]
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Debating mental health legislation after Newtown massacre
January 25
The massacre last month at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut galvanized the national conversation on gun control, but that wasn’t all. Family stories of shooter Adam Lanza’s mental health struggles – on the heels of mental [...]
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Food myths and fad diets
January 11
Every New Year millions of Americans resolve to lose weight, eat better and hit the gym. Sadly, many of us aren’t successful. But in our quest to be slimmer and fitter, we often seize on headlines that tout [...]
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A conversation with Philadelphia school chief William Hite
January 8
On Monday, after four months on the job, Philadelphia School Superintendent William Hite, Jr. made public his blueprint for turning around the city’s public schools. Its two broad goals are to improve academics on all levels — from [...]
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What's happened to recess?
January 7
As school districts cut budgets, worry about litigation and squeeze more academics into limited time, recess has taken a hit in terms of frequency and duration in some schools throughout the country. Only six states mandate 20 minutes [...]
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Some good news in the childhood obesity battle
December 20
This year there’s some good news in the fight against childhood obesity – particularly for Philadelphia. Rates of childhood obesity have declined in Philadelphia along with a few other cities including New York, El Paso, and Anchorage. Though [...]
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Downsizing the Pentagon budget; then, what suicide bombers & rampage shooters have in common
December 19
Should the U.S. slide off the fiscal cliff in a few weeks, over $55 billion in spending cuts a year for the next decade will kick in at the Pentagon. That amount added to the $487 billion in [...]
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The risks and rewards of older parenthood
December 13
Among the many changes in American families over the past few decades is the increasing number of parents who are having children later in life. While the average first time parent in the U.S. is in her twenties, [...]
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Nikki Johnson-Huston: from homeless to lawyer
December 12
City of Philadelphia tax solicitor and 2012 USA Eisenhower Fellow, NIKKI JOHNSON-HUSTON, returned recently from a six-week trip to India and New Zealand, to study what social safety nets look like in two, very different countries. When she [...]
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The diverse school dilemma
December 11
For young middle-class families who are committed to living in a diverse, vibrant urban environment while contributing to the economic health of the city, the decision of where to send children to school is often fraught with conflict. [...]
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Contraception, sexual health and teens
December 11
The American Academy of Pediatrics came out with a recommendation recently to increase teen access to emergency contraception. In a new policy report, the organization advised pediatricians to not only openly discuss contraception with their female patients but [...]
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PA Task Force on Child Protection, post-Sandusky
December 5
The Pennsylvania Task Force on Child Protection has been meeting for 10 months with experts in all facets of child care and protection, tasked with reviewing the commonwealth’s laws and procedures protecting children, and where and why they [...]
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A conversation with Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Scottoline Serritella
November 29
LISA SCOTTOLINE's daughter FRANCESACA SERRITELLA has gone into the family business. The duo has just published their second book together, "Meet Me at Emotional Baggage Claim." Its a collection of columns from their Philadelphia Inquirer "Chick Lit" columns [...]
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The Future of Philadelphia's Catholic schools: A conversation with Casey Carter
November 5
In August the Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced that it was turning over control of 17 of its high schools and four special education schools to an independent foundation created to raise money and stave off closures for the [...]
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Parent-trigger laws
October 8
Hour 1 The movie “Won’t Back Down” starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis is about a crusading single mother and inspiring teacher who are trying to fix their children’s failing Pittsburgh public school. It doesn’t sound like it [...]
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Pennsylvania school update: Achievement, school choice, and student drug-testing
October 1
Pennsylvania student achievement scores dropped last year for the first time since the tests began in 2002. Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Ron Tomalis blamed the decline on a statewide crack down on cheating but others say that recent [...]
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Paul Tough on 'How Children Succeed'
September 7
Hour 2 In his new book, “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character,” New York Times Magazine writer PAUL TOUGH challenges our traditional view of why and how children thrive. Instead of tested intelligence, [...]
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Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake with writer Anna Quindlen
August 31
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] Writer ANNA QUINDLEN is on the verge of turning 60 and she says that one of the best part of getting older is that she just doesn't care what people think about her anymore. She's [...]
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Terry Tempest Williams on her mother's mystifying bequest
August 30
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] Twenty-five years ago, TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS’ mother died of ovarian cancer, and she left Terry 54 journals, one for each year of her life. Later, when Terry went to read them, longing to hear her [...]
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Philly gun violence, Pt. 3: Youth perspectives
August 22
Hour 1 In the third part of our summerlong series (links to Part 1 and Part 2) on the intersection of guns and violence in Philadelphia, we hear from some young Philadelphians whose lives have been touched by [...]
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How the recession is affecting children's health
August 3
Hour 1 Often lost in the staggering and numbing statistics about U.S. households suffering these hard times is specifically how children in those households are affected by threats like unemployment, hunger, foreclosure and poverty. On today’s Radio Times, [...]
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Gun violence Philly: Victims & City's perspective
August 2
Hour 1 The grim tally of homicide victims in Philadelphia continues to grow, with 208 lives lost in 2012 thus far, and the vast majority slain by gun. That’s 16 murder victims since our last show on this [...]
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There's no place like home: Why we get homesick
July 25
Hour 2 “There's no place like home," said Judy Garland as Dorothy in the 1939 classic film, "The Wizard of Oz," as she clicked her heels and hoped for the return to the comforts of her own bed [...]
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The statute of limitations in sex abuse cases
July 10
Hour 1 A victim of sexual abuse in New Jersey has to report the incident two years from the day they turn 18, or else the statute of limitations runs out, and the abuser can’t be prosecuted. In [...]
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Life without parole for juveniles: The Supreme Court decides
June 26
Hour 1 The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that states may no longer sentence juveniles under the age of 18 who have committed homicide to mandatory life sentences without parole. The 5-4 majority ruling in the case called such [...]
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Kids & screen time
June 21
Hour 2 You’ve probably noticed that kids spend a lot of time staring at screens – smart phones, iPads, laptops, TVs. They spend more time with electronic gadgets then they do engaged in any other activity– school, hanging [...]
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Visiting national parks before climate changes them
June 5
Hour 1 MICHAEL LANZA is a longtime backpacker, climber, skier and freelance writer and photographer of outdoors and wilderness. He is the northwest editor of Backpacker magazine, where he chronicled the effects of climate change on Montana’s Glacier [...]
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Terry Tempest Williams on her mother's mystifying bequest
May 17
Hour 2 Twenty-five years ago, TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS’ mother died of ovarian cancer, and she left Terry 54 journals, one for each year of her life. Later, when Terry went to read them, longing to hear her mother’s [...]
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How the new economic power of women is changing work, home and family
May 11
Hour 1 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, full-time working women earned 81 percent of what full-time working men earned in 2010, but over the past three decades women's wages have been steadily increasing. And now, more [...]
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Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake with writer Anna Quindlen
May 10
Hour 2 Writer ANNA QUINDLEN is on the verge of turning 60 and she says that one of the best part of getting older is that she just doesn't care what people think about her anymore. She's raised [...]
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Khalil Wimes' foster family; then, remembering Maurice Sendak
May 9
Hour 1 Three years before he died, Khalil Wimes was living in the happy, healthy, loving home of ALICIA NIXON, her husband J. Evans, and Alicia's mother La REINE NIXON. The family took Khalil in just one week [...]
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Child welfare: protecting children's interests
April 30
Hour 1 The shocking death of 6-year-old Khalil Wimes, who was allegedly starved and beaten to death by his parents, has outraged and confused many Philadelphians. Why was this young boy removed from a safe foster home and [...]
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Fun family getaways in NJ, PA & DE
April 20
Hour 2 With summer approaching and gas prices averaging around $4 a gallon, a lot of families are rethinking the long vacation road trip or one that involves expensive airfare. So how about taking a few smaller trips [...]
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Sexual assaults on college campuses
April 16
It is estimated that 20 to 25 percent of women will be the victim of a completed or attempted rape while in college, but fewer than 5 percent of these cases go reported. High profile cases at Penn [...]
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Cutting-edge science & challenges of premature babies
April 5
Hour 2 The science and stories of premature babies, viable ever-earlier thanks to advances in medicine and technology but with medical challenges testing the limits of neonatology. Dr. ADAM WOLFBERG knows about these challenges intimately – he’s the [...]
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Delaware Valley's response to the rising rates of autism
April 4
Hour 1 A new estimate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests the rates for autism in American children is rising ever faster. Now, about one in 88 children in the United States has autism or a [...]
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When sibling rivalry follows us into adulthood
April 4
Hour 2 For most of us, the bickering and battling with our brothers and sisters when we were children become amusing pieces of our family history. But for others, unresolved hurts and jealousies accompany us into adulthood and [...]
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Pennsylvania's public welfare on the chopping block
April 2
Hour 1 Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has proposed $629 million in cuts to the Department of Public Welfare's budget, including $319 million in General Assistance ($150 M for cash; $169 M for health care); $168 million to human [...]
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American parenting and whether other cultures do it better
March 23
Hour 1 The recent spate of books for American parents about parenting in France, for example, got us wondering what's wrong with American moms and dads anyway? Are French kids really better eaters? Are they more polite? OK, [...]
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Hate crimes, cyberbullying & the Rutgers spy cam case
March 22
Hour 1 The ruling against Rutgers student Dharun Ravi, who used a webcam to spy on his roommate Tyler Clementi, provides stern warnings regarding the punishment for bullying by young people and the prosecution of hate crimes. Clementi [...]
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Nagging: The Marriage Killer?
March 5
Hour 2 A recent story in The Wall Street Journal described nagging in marriage as potentially more toxic than adultery. Some of us are guilty of it, most every couple has experienced it and we all know it's [...]
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Poet Philip Schultz: My Dyslexia
February 8
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] PHILIP SCHULTZ is a famous poet and writer. This poetry collection Failure won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. He founded and directs The Writers Studio in New York and has been teaching creative writing for years. [...]
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Reversing Philadelphia's high school dropout crisis
February 6
Hour 1 In Philadelphia, over half of all students drop out from high school. In the U.S., only seven of 10 ninth graders will get high school diplomas. Locally, Mayor Michael Nutter has made raising the number of [...]
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Cursing & public discourse: Have we gone too far?
January 27
Hour 2 Mayor Nutter recently turned a few heads after he used some choice words when responding to the senseless murder of three Philadelphia teenagers. The award-winning ABC sitcom Modern Family also found itself in a little bit [...]
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Role of Technology in Education
January 19
Hour 1 Laptops, tablets, electronic white boards and PowerPoint are increasingly at home in K through 12 classrooms. Some education reformers see technology as the central to improving learning, personalizing education, and saving money for cash-strapped schools. But [...]
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Why & how people change their names
January 10
Hour 2 Our names tell people a lot about us—perhaps our gender, our marital status, our race or religion or country of origin and sometimes the name we are given no longer fits or we just don't like [...]
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What to do when you witness child abuse?
January 5
Hour 1 You’re playing in a public park with your kids, riding on public transit or shopping in a supermarket and witness a parent cursing at and/or pushing their child. What is the right thing to do? Is [...]
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Hazing, bullying and how to stop them
January 5
Hour 2 A number of hazing-related deaths have made headlines in recent months. Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion died within an hour of a hazing ritual, according to the state medical examiner, that involved “multiple blunt [...]
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Debating your kids' music playlist: children's music or adult music?
December 23
Hour 1 What kind of music should parents be playing for their kids? Should parents dive into the growing world of music aimed at children, or should they just play their favorite “adult” music and hope the kids [...]
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Poet Philip Schultz: My Dyslexia
December 23
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] PHILIP SCHULTZ is a famous poet and writer. This poetry collection Failure won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. He founded and directs The Writers Studio in New York and has been teaching creative writing for years. [...]
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The changing multicultural traditions of the season
December 21
Hour 2 Many families are gathering for the holidays this year, but if it’s Christmas being celebrated, is the feast day December 25th or January 6th – or January 19th, when Ethiopians celebrate the Epiphany? Elsewhere a table [...]
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Pennsylvania's New Abortion Clinic Bill
December 19
Hour 1 Pennsylvania's state Senate passed legislation last week that places new restrictions on abortion clinics. The bill is largely in reaction to the horrific case of Kermit Gosnell, who ran an abortion clinic in West Philadelphia and [...]
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Distracted Driving
December 16
Hour 1 This week the National Transportation Safety Board recommended that states ban talking and texting behind the wheel, including hands-free devices. Studies have shown that distracted driving plays a role in 8,000 crashes daily in the United [...]
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Modern Childhood and the Brain
December 12
Hour 2 In the effort to give kids a leg up in life, parents bombard them with educational toys, rush them to chess, fencing, and piano lessons, and place them in preschool programs that stress academics in the [...]
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Doing a better job of protecting our children
November 29
Hour 2 Several high profile cases in recent years involving the abuse of children have highlighted serious weaknesses in Pennsylvania's child welfare system and the Commonwealth's laws designed to protect them. Charges of sexual abuse at Penn State and [...]
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Jennifer Weiner on writing novels and TV shows
November 25
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] Novelist and Philadelphian JENNIFER WEINER’s ninth book, Then Came You, is the story of four women brought together over issues of egg donorship, surrogacy, motherhood and class. But besides writing bestselling books about real women [...]
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What we can learn about child sexual abuse from the Penn State case
November 15
Hour 1 As shocking and disturbing as the allegations against former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky are, some of the facts of the case come as no surprise to experts in the field of child sexual abuse. As [...]
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Penn State Child Sex Abuse Scandal
November 10
Hour 1 In a disturbing and graphic grand jury report (pdf), the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office has provided details of the child sex abuse case against former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky. The report alleges that while [...]
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Twentysomethings & the longer and winding road to adulthood
November 8
Hour 2 Today's twentysomethings, particularly those armed with college degrees and facing high unemployment rates, are marrying later, committing to careers later and perhaps even relying on their parents far longer than twentysomethings of previous generations. Many young [...]
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Youth courts and the value of a jury of their peers
October 27
Hour 2 In the last decade the number of juvenile offenders in jail has dropped about 25 percent — welcome news since research and experience show that young people who serve time are more likely to become more [...]
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The Sibling Effect: Do parents have favorites?
October 19
Hour 2 Whether you have brothers or sisters or are an only child, sibling relationships, or lack of them, have played a powerful role in who you are. Even the birth order in family shapes us as individuals. [...]
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The Debate over Single-Sex Schooling
October 13
Hour 1 A recent paper in the journal Science attacks single-sex education. In the article, “The Pseudoscience of Single-Sex Schooling”, the authors write that the recent push for sex-segregated education is “deeply misguided, and often justified by weak, [...]
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Unnatural sex selection & its repercussions/Steve Jobs obit
October 6
Hour 1 In some Asian cities, 150 boys are born for every 100 girls. Noticing the persistence and frequency of that gender imbalance set MARA HVISTENDAHL, science journalist and Asia correspondent for Science magazine, off on an investigation [...]
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Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen's "The Way"
October 3
Hour Two EMILIO ESTEVEZ has written and directed a new film about walking the medieval Christian pilgrimage route, El Camino de Santiago, or The Way of St. James. “The Way” stars MARTIN SHEEN, about a widowed father who [...]
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Poet Philip Schultz: My Dyslexia
September 21
Hour 2 PHILIP SCHULTZ is a famous poet and writer. This poetry collection Failure won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. He founded and directs The Writers Studio in New York and has been teaching creative writing for years. And [...]
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New Jersey's Anti-bullying Law
September 14
Hour 1 New Jersey has passed what’s been described as the toughest anti-bullying law in the country. It requires schools to appoint anti-bullying coordinators, there’s an anonymous Crime Stoppers tip line that students can call, and schools are [...]
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Jennifer Weiner on her new novel & her new TV show
September 13
Hour 2 Novelist and Philadelphian JENNIFER WEINER’s ninth book is out. Then Came You is the story of four women brought together over issues of egg donorship, surrogacy, motherhood and class. But besides writing bestselling books about real [...]
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The '9-11 Generation,' & Rutgers' 9/11 student journalism project
September 12
Hour 2 As our last look at how the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed our world, we look at their impact on those who were kids then, what some demographers have called “the 9/11 Generation.” This [...]
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Parenting Teens
September 8
Hour 2 The teenage years aren’t easy for anyone – not for kids or parents. Teens face dating, driving, social networks, school and peer pressure, and they increasingly long for independence. Many parents though are conflicted out their [...]
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Philadelphia youth on violence, jobs, recreation and more
August 17
Hour 1 With so much talk about violent so-called “flash mobs” in Philadelphia, many are wondering: Have Philadelphia’s teenagers gone crazy? Or are the media blowing the crimes and misbehavior of a few bad apples way out of [...]
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What to do about violent flash mobs in Philadelphia?
August 9
Hour 1 We’ll discuss the “flash-mob” youth violence crime wave plaguing the city of Philadelphia, what’s causing it and the city’s official response, which was announced by Mayor Michael Nutter yesterday [Monday Aug. 8]. In it, Mayor Nutter [...]
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Free Birth Control? Covering Prevention Services for Women
August 1
Hour 1 An expert panel for the Institute of Medicine recently released recommendations for improving women’s health. The Institute identified eight preventive services that could improve women’s lives and that health insurance plans should cover, including contraception, at [...]
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Are Childhood Food Allergies on the Rise?
July 13
Hour 1 A recent study in the Journal Pediatrics found that food allergies among children are more widespread than previously thought. According to the report, almost six million children have allergic reactions to peanuts, milk, shellfish or other [...]
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Is Young Adult Fiction Too Dark?
July 6
Hour 2 There’s a debate going on about young adult fiction. In an article in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago, children's book critic MEGHAN COX GURDON argued that young adult books (or YA for short) [...]
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Make the Bread, Buy the Butter
July 5
Hour 2 After journalist Jennifer Reese lost her job as book reviewer for Entertainment Weekly in 2008, she decided it was time to save her family some money. So she started cooking from scratch and making foods usually purchased in [...]
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Have charter schools fulfilled their promise?
June 27
Hour 1 Since 1997 when Pennsylvania first authorized the establishment of charter schools, over 70,000 students in grades K-12 have enrolled in one of 135 "bricks and mortar" charter schools and a dozen cyber charter schools state-wide . [...]
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The Effects of Violence on Kids
June 27
Hour 2 It’s no surprise that soldiers fighting in war zones develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from the fighting and the bloodshed. But far more children suffer from PTSD from the violence they witness or experience at home or [...]
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Hollywood's fathers, with film historian David Thomson
June 16
Hour 2 In time for Father’s Day, we take a look back at memorable fathers in film history with film historian and critic DAVID THOMSON, author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film and a library’s worth of [...]
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The challenge of preparing students for college and, once they are there, finish
June 8
The Obama administration has set an ambitious goal for the nation's students –by 2020, every American should get at least a year of post-high-school education. But many high school graduates now enter college ill-prepared to tackle the coursework. [...]
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Teresa Nicholas: Buryin' Daddy
June 2
Hour 2 Writer TERESA NICHOLAS went home to Yazoo City, Mississippi to reconcile her father’s death and comfort her mother. She had been a book publicist for more than 20 years, a Northeast life she wanted to escape [...]
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Kids and sports — when is it too much?
June 1
Hour 2 For parents with kids involved in sports, spring and summer schedules are overflowing with and dictated by Little League, soccer and lacrosse games and swim meets — but could all this focus on athletics detrimental to [...]
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Ina May Gaskin, America's leading midwife
May 31
Hour 2 INA MAY GASKIN has often been called “America’s leading midwife.” She has practiced for nearly 40 years at The Farm Midwifery Center in Summertown, Tennessee, attending well over 1,200 births, and she’s the only midwife who’s [...]
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Andrew Ferguson's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College
May 30
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] The United States higher education system is an international bragging right. Many overseas families send their children off to the States, investing in a commodity that is supposed to have infinite returns. Some brilliant [...]
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Support for Military Families
May 23
Hour 2 Last month Michelle Obama and Jill Biden announced the initiative “Joining Forces” to focus on the issues facing military families, the people President Obama has referred to as the “force behind the force.” The program will [...]
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David Goldman's international battle to reclaim his son
May 13
Hour 2 In December 2009, New Jersey’s DAVID GOLDMAN took custody of his son Sean, then 9 years old and living with his grandparents in Brazil. That reunion came after David waged a six-year, international legal and diplomatic [...]
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Teen Driving and Safety
May 10
Hour 2 Do you remember learning to drive as a teenager? Have you recently taught one of your kids the rules of the road? Teens behind the wheel unnerve a lot of us and for good reason. Teens [...]
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Philadelphia public school update
May 5
Hour 1 With an estimated $629 million shortfall, the School District of Philadelphia warns of dramatic cuts in administrative and teaching staff, the elimination of full-day kindergarten, and reductions in art, music, gifted education and summer programs, as well [...]
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Times Two: When both moms are pregnant simultaneously
April 29
Hour 2 One’s a rock star, bassist for the all-female band Antigone Rising. The other’s the VP of Real Simple Magazine. When KRISTEN HENDERSON and SARAH KATE ELLIS fell in love and decided to start a family, they [...]
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Who's getting married, who isn't and why
May 15
Guest: Andrew Cherlin In honor of the start of wedding season, we’re going to spend the hour talking about the state of the American marriage. Despite the odds (the U.S. Census Bureau says roughly 50% of first marriages [...] -
Should refusing medical care for children be considered neglect?
May 14
Guests: Paul Offit and Shawn Peters Eight-month old Brandon Schaible died last month after his parents relied on prayer instead of medical care to treat their sick baby. The Schaibles, who live in Philadelphia and are members of [...] -
Plan B, politics and parents
May 8
Guests: Jessica Arons and Joan Vennochi Back in 2011, in a controversial decision, Health and Human Services Secretary Katherine Sebelius announced that the morning after pill, known as Plan B One-Step, would be available over-the-counter only to women [...] -
"Far from the Tree" with author Andrew Solomon
April 17
Guest: Andrew Solomon In his new book, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, writer ANDREW SOLOMON tells the complicated, sometimes heartbreaking and oftentimes compelling stories of parents who not only learn to cope [...] -
Babies, language and the developing brain
April 15
Guests: Roberta Golinkoff, Trude Haecker Talk to your baby – it’s critical for their developing brains. And researchers now know that the choice and number of words that parents use matter. Early exposure to language helps predict kids' [...] -
When sibling rivalry follows us into adulthood
April 12
[REBROADCAST] For most of us, the bickering and battling with our brothers and sisters when we were children become amusing pieces of our family history. But for others, unresolved hurts and jealousies accompany us into adulthood and have [...] -
Household chores — figuring out who does what and why it's so hard
April 2
Guests: Wendy Klein, Andy Hinds, Emily Oster Let's be honest….no one likes doing chores, but the good news is much has changed at home when it comes to sharing the responsibilities of raising children and maintaining a home. [...] -
Marlene Zuk on "Paleofantasy"
April 1
Guest: Marlene Zuk Have you tried barefoot running, the Caveman Diet or attachment parenting? Taking lessons from our ancient ancestors has become all the rage lately. But evolutionary biologist MARLENE ZUK warns that our Paleolithic past was far [...] -
The history and legacy of mass incarceration in the U.S.
February 27
GUESTS: KEITH REEVES, JANE SIEGEL, HEATHER ANN THOMPSON As a result of stricter drug laws and more rigid sentencing guidelines enacted in the 1970s, the U.S. prison population has grown by 500 percent over the past thirty years. [...] -
Vow: A Memoir of Marriage (And Other Affairs)
February 22
GUEST: WENDY PLUMP WENDY PLUMP found out from a friend that her husband was cheating on her. What made it even worse was that he had a child with his mistress and this second family lived a few [...] -
The secrets of happy families with Bruce Feiler
February 19
Guest: BRUCE FEILER For his new book, The Secrets of Happy Families, Bruce Feiler used his experience as an investigative reporter to discover new techniques and ideas to make contemporary family life more functional, more meaningful and more [...] -
School closures and safety
February 6
The Philadelphia School District’s proposed plan to close 37 public schools by the end of the school year has some people worried about safety. Under the new plan, 17,000 students will be relocated and will have to find [...] -
The early causes and lasting impact of the education and knowledge gap
January 31
For their newly-published book, Giving Our Children A Fighting Chance, education researchers DONNA CELANO and SUSAN NEUMAN studied two Philadelphia neighborhoods — one in Chestnut Hill and the other in North Philadelphia — and found that children living [...] -
Debating mental health legislation after Newtown massacre
January 25
The massacre last month at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut galvanized the national conversation on gun control, but that wasn’t all. Family stories of shooter Adam Lanza’s mental health struggles – on the heels of mental [...] -
Food myths and fad diets
January 11
Every New Year millions of Americans resolve to lose weight, eat better and hit the gym. Sadly, many of us aren’t successful. But in our quest to be slimmer and fitter, we often seize on headlines that tout [...] -
A conversation with Philadelphia school chief William Hite
January 8
On Monday, after four months on the job, Philadelphia School Superintendent William Hite, Jr. made public his blueprint for turning around the city’s public schools. Its two broad goals are to improve academics on all levels — from [...] -
What's happened to recess?
January 7
As school districts cut budgets, worry about litigation and squeeze more academics into limited time, recess has taken a hit in terms of frequency and duration in some schools throughout the country. Only six states mandate 20 minutes [...] -
Some good news in the childhood obesity battle
December 20
This year there’s some good news in the fight against childhood obesity – particularly for Philadelphia. Rates of childhood obesity have declined in Philadelphia along with a few other cities including New York, El Paso, and Anchorage. Though [...] -
Downsizing the Pentagon budget; then, what suicide bombers & rampage shooters have in common
December 19
Should the U.S. slide off the fiscal cliff in a few weeks, over $55 billion in spending cuts a year for the next decade will kick in at the Pentagon. That amount added to the $487 billion in [...] -
The risks and rewards of older parenthood
December 13
Among the many changes in American families over the past few decades is the increasing number of parents who are having children later in life. While the average first time parent in the U.S. is in her twenties, [...] -
Nikki Johnson-Huston: from homeless to lawyer
December 12
City of Philadelphia tax solicitor and 2012 USA Eisenhower Fellow, NIKKI JOHNSON-HUSTON, returned recently from a six-week trip to India and New Zealand, to study what social safety nets look like in two, very different countries. When she [...] -
The diverse school dilemma
December 11
For young middle-class families who are committed to living in a diverse, vibrant urban environment while contributing to the economic health of the city, the decision of where to send children to school is often fraught with conflict. [...] -
Contraception, sexual health and teens
December 11
The American Academy of Pediatrics came out with a recommendation recently to increase teen access to emergency contraception. In a new policy report, the organization advised pediatricians to not only openly discuss contraception with their female patients but [...] -
PA Task Force on Child Protection, post-Sandusky
December 5
The Pennsylvania Task Force on Child Protection has been meeting for 10 months with experts in all facets of child care and protection, tasked with reviewing the commonwealth’s laws and procedures protecting children, and where and why they [...] -
A conversation with Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Scottoline Serritella
November 29
LISA SCOTTOLINE's daughter FRANCESACA SERRITELLA has gone into the family business. The duo has just published their second book together, "Meet Me at Emotional Baggage Claim." Its a collection of columns from their Philadelphia Inquirer "Chick Lit" columns [...] -
The Future of Philadelphia's Catholic schools: A conversation with Casey Carter
November 5
In August the Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced that it was turning over control of 17 of its high schools and four special education schools to an independent foundation created to raise money and stave off closures for the [...] -
Parent-trigger laws
October 8
Hour 1 The movie “Won’t Back Down” starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis is about a crusading single mother and inspiring teacher who are trying to fix their children’s failing Pittsburgh public school. It doesn’t sound like it [...] -
Pennsylvania school update: Achievement, school choice, and student drug-testing
October 1
Pennsylvania student achievement scores dropped last year for the first time since the tests began in 2002. Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Ron Tomalis blamed the decline on a statewide crack down on cheating but others say that recent [...] -
Paul Tough on 'How Children Succeed'
September 7
Hour 2 In his new book, “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character,” New York Times Magazine writer PAUL TOUGH challenges our traditional view of why and how children thrive. Instead of tested intelligence, [...] -
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake with writer Anna Quindlen
August 31
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] Writer ANNA QUINDLEN is on the verge of turning 60 and she says that one of the best part of getting older is that she just doesn't care what people think about her anymore. She's [...] -
Terry Tempest Williams on her mother's mystifying bequest
August 30
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] Twenty-five years ago, TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS’ mother died of ovarian cancer, and she left Terry 54 journals, one for each year of her life. Later, when Terry went to read them, longing to hear her [...] -
Philly gun violence, Pt. 3: Youth perspectives August 22
Hour 1 In the third part of our summerlong series (links to Part 1 and Part 2) on the intersection of guns and violence in Philadelphia, we hear from some young Philadelphians whose lives have been touched by [...] -
How the recession is affecting children's health August 3
Hour 1 Often lost in the staggering and numbing statistics about U.S. households suffering these hard times is specifically how children in those households are affected by threats like unemployment, hunger, foreclosure and poverty. On today’s Radio Times, [...] -
Gun violence Philly: Victims & City's perspective August 2
Hour 1 The grim tally of homicide victims in Philadelphia continues to grow, with 208 lives lost in 2012 thus far, and the vast majority slain by gun. That’s 16 murder victims since our last show on this [...] -
There's no place like home: Why we get homesick July 25
Hour 2 “There's no place like home," said Judy Garland as Dorothy in the 1939 classic film, "The Wizard of Oz," as she clicked her heels and hoped for the return to the comforts of her own bed [...] -
The statute of limitations in sex abuse cases July 10
Hour 1 A victim of sexual abuse in New Jersey has to report the incident two years from the day they turn 18, or else the statute of limitations runs out, and the abuser can’t be prosecuted. In [...] -
Life without parole for juveniles: The Supreme Court decides June 26
Hour 1 The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that states may no longer sentence juveniles under the age of 18 who have committed homicide to mandatory life sentences without parole. The 5-4 majority ruling in the case called such [...] -
Kids & screen time June 21
Hour 2 You’ve probably noticed that kids spend a lot of time staring at screens – smart phones, iPads, laptops, TVs. They spend more time with electronic gadgets then they do engaged in any other activity– school, hanging [...] -
Visiting national parks before climate changes them June 5
Hour 1 MICHAEL LANZA is a longtime backpacker, climber, skier and freelance writer and photographer of outdoors and wilderness. He is the northwest editor of Backpacker magazine, where he chronicled the effects of climate change on Montana’s Glacier [...] -
Terry Tempest Williams on her mother's mystifying bequest May 17
Hour 2 Twenty-five years ago, TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS’ mother died of ovarian cancer, and she left Terry 54 journals, one for each year of her life. Later, when Terry went to read them, longing to hear her mother’s [...] -
How the new economic power of women is changing work, home and family May 11
Hour 1 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, full-time working women earned 81 percent of what full-time working men earned in 2010, but over the past three decades women's wages have been steadily increasing. And now, more [...] -
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake with writer Anna Quindlen May 10
Hour 2 Writer ANNA QUINDLEN is on the verge of turning 60 and she says that one of the best part of getting older is that she just doesn't care what people think about her anymore. She's raised [...] -
Khalil Wimes' foster family; then, remembering Maurice Sendak May 9
Hour 1 Three years before he died, Khalil Wimes was living in the happy, healthy, loving home of ALICIA NIXON, her husband J. Evans, and Alicia's mother La REINE NIXON. The family took Khalil in just one week [...] -
Child welfare: protecting children's interests April 30
Hour 1 The shocking death of 6-year-old Khalil Wimes, who was allegedly starved and beaten to death by his parents, has outraged and confused many Philadelphians. Why was this young boy removed from a safe foster home and [...] -
Fun family getaways in NJ, PA & DE April 20
Hour 2 With summer approaching and gas prices averaging around $4 a gallon, a lot of families are rethinking the long vacation road trip or one that involves expensive airfare. So how about taking a few smaller trips [...] -
Sexual assaults on college campuses April 16
It is estimated that 20 to 25 percent of women will be the victim of a completed or attempted rape while in college, but fewer than 5 percent of these cases go reported. High profile cases at Penn [...] -
Cutting-edge science & challenges of premature babies April 5
Hour 2 The science and stories of premature babies, viable ever-earlier thanks to advances in medicine and technology but with medical challenges testing the limits of neonatology. Dr. ADAM WOLFBERG knows about these challenges intimately – he’s the [...] -
Delaware Valley's response to the rising rates of autism April 4
Hour 1 A new estimate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests the rates for autism in American children is rising ever faster. Now, about one in 88 children in the United States has autism or a [...] -
When sibling rivalry follows us into adulthood April 4
Hour 2 For most of us, the bickering and battling with our brothers and sisters when we were children become amusing pieces of our family history. But for others, unresolved hurts and jealousies accompany us into adulthood and [...] -
Pennsylvania's public welfare on the chopping block April 2
Hour 1 Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett has proposed $629 million in cuts to the Department of Public Welfare's budget, including $319 million in General Assistance ($150 M for cash; $169 M for health care); $168 million to human [...] -
American parenting and whether other cultures do it better March 23
Hour 1 The recent spate of books for American parents about parenting in France, for example, got us wondering what's wrong with American moms and dads anyway? Are French kids really better eaters? Are they more polite? OK, [...] -
Hate crimes, cyberbullying & the Rutgers spy cam case March 22
Hour 1 The ruling against Rutgers student Dharun Ravi, who used a webcam to spy on his roommate Tyler Clementi, provides stern warnings regarding the punishment for bullying by young people and the prosecution of hate crimes. Clementi [...] -
Nagging: The Marriage Killer? March 5
Hour 2 A recent story in The Wall Street Journal described nagging in marriage as potentially more toxic than adultery. Some of us are guilty of it, most every couple has experienced it and we all know it's [...] -
Poet Philip Schultz: My Dyslexia February 8
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] PHILIP SCHULTZ is a famous poet and writer. This poetry collection Failure won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. He founded and directs The Writers Studio in New York and has been teaching creative writing for years. [...] -
Reversing Philadelphia's high school dropout crisis February 6
Hour 1 In Philadelphia, over half of all students drop out from high school. In the U.S., only seven of 10 ninth graders will get high school diplomas. Locally, Mayor Michael Nutter has made raising the number of [...] -
Cursing & public discourse: Have we gone too far? January 27
Hour 2 Mayor Nutter recently turned a few heads after he used some choice words when responding to the senseless murder of three Philadelphia teenagers. The award-winning ABC sitcom Modern Family also found itself in a little bit [...] -
Role of Technology in Education January 19
Hour 1 Laptops, tablets, electronic white boards and PowerPoint are increasingly at home in K through 12 classrooms. Some education reformers see technology as the central to improving learning, personalizing education, and saving money for cash-strapped schools. But [...] -
Why & how people change their names January 10
Hour 2 Our names tell people a lot about us—perhaps our gender, our marital status, our race or religion or country of origin and sometimes the name we are given no longer fits or we just don't like [...] -
What to do when you witness child abuse? January 5
Hour 1 You’re playing in a public park with your kids, riding on public transit or shopping in a supermarket and witness a parent cursing at and/or pushing their child. What is the right thing to do? Is [...] -
Hazing, bullying and how to stop them January 5
Hour 2 A number of hazing-related deaths have made headlines in recent months. Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion died within an hour of a hazing ritual, according to the state medical examiner, that involved “multiple blunt [...] -
Debating your kids' music playlist: children's music or adult music? December 23
Hour 1 What kind of music should parents be playing for their kids? Should parents dive into the growing world of music aimed at children, or should they just play their favorite “adult” music and hope the kids [...] -
Poet Philip Schultz: My Dyslexia December 23
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] PHILIP SCHULTZ is a famous poet and writer. This poetry collection Failure won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. He founded and directs The Writers Studio in New York and has been teaching creative writing for years. [...] -
The changing multicultural traditions of the season December 21
Hour 2 Many families are gathering for the holidays this year, but if it’s Christmas being celebrated, is the feast day December 25th or January 6th – or January 19th, when Ethiopians celebrate the Epiphany? Elsewhere a table [...] -
Pennsylvania's New Abortion Clinic Bill December 19
Hour 1 Pennsylvania's state Senate passed legislation last week that places new restrictions on abortion clinics. The bill is largely in reaction to the horrific case of Kermit Gosnell, who ran an abortion clinic in West Philadelphia and [...] -
Distracted Driving December 16
Hour 1 This week the National Transportation Safety Board recommended that states ban talking and texting behind the wheel, including hands-free devices. Studies have shown that distracted driving plays a role in 8,000 crashes daily in the United [...] -
Modern Childhood and the Brain December 12
Hour 2 In the effort to give kids a leg up in life, parents bombard them with educational toys, rush them to chess, fencing, and piano lessons, and place them in preschool programs that stress academics in the [...] -
Doing a better job of protecting our children November 29
Hour 2 Several high profile cases in recent years involving the abuse of children have highlighted serious weaknesses in Pennsylvania's child welfare system and the Commonwealth's laws designed to protect them. Charges of sexual abuse at Penn State and [...] -
Jennifer Weiner on writing novels and TV shows November 25
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] Novelist and Philadelphian JENNIFER WEINER’s ninth book, Then Came You, is the story of four women brought together over issues of egg donorship, surrogacy, motherhood and class. But besides writing bestselling books about real women [...] -
What we can learn about child sexual abuse from the Penn State case November 15
Hour 1 As shocking and disturbing as the allegations against former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky are, some of the facts of the case come as no surprise to experts in the field of child sexual abuse. As [...] -
Penn State Child Sex Abuse Scandal November 10
Hour 1 In a disturbing and graphic grand jury report (pdf), the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office has provided details of the child sex abuse case against former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky. The report alleges that while [...] -
Twentysomethings & the longer and winding road to adulthood November 8
Hour 2 Today's twentysomethings, particularly those armed with college degrees and facing high unemployment rates, are marrying later, committing to careers later and perhaps even relying on their parents far longer than twentysomethings of previous generations. Many young [...] -
Youth courts and the value of a jury of their peers October 27
Hour 2 In the last decade the number of juvenile offenders in jail has dropped about 25 percent — welcome news since research and experience show that young people who serve time are more likely to become more [...] -
The Sibling Effect: Do parents have favorites? October 19
Hour 2 Whether you have brothers or sisters or are an only child, sibling relationships, or lack of them, have played a powerful role in who you are. Even the birth order in family shapes us as individuals. [...] -
The Debate over Single-Sex Schooling October 13
Hour 1 A recent paper in the journal Science attacks single-sex education. In the article, “The Pseudoscience of Single-Sex Schooling”, the authors write that the recent push for sex-segregated education is “deeply misguided, and often justified by weak, [...] -
Unnatural sex selection & its repercussions/Steve Jobs obit October 6
Hour 1 In some Asian cities, 150 boys are born for every 100 girls. Noticing the persistence and frequency of that gender imbalance set MARA HVISTENDAHL, science journalist and Asia correspondent for Science magazine, off on an investigation [...] -
Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen's "The Way" October 3
Hour Two EMILIO ESTEVEZ has written and directed a new film about walking the medieval Christian pilgrimage route, El Camino de Santiago, or The Way of St. James. “The Way” stars MARTIN SHEEN, about a widowed father who [...] -
Poet Philip Schultz: My Dyslexia September 21
Hour 2 PHILIP SCHULTZ is a famous poet and writer. This poetry collection Failure won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. He founded and directs The Writers Studio in New York and has been teaching creative writing for years. And [...] -
New Jersey's Anti-bullying Law September 14
Hour 1 New Jersey has passed what’s been described as the toughest anti-bullying law in the country. It requires schools to appoint anti-bullying coordinators, there’s an anonymous Crime Stoppers tip line that students can call, and schools are [...] -
Jennifer Weiner on her new novel & her new TV show September 13
Hour 2 Novelist and Philadelphian JENNIFER WEINER’s ninth book is out. Then Came You is the story of four women brought together over issues of egg donorship, surrogacy, motherhood and class. But besides writing bestselling books about real [...] -
The '9-11 Generation,' & Rutgers' 9/11 student journalism project September 12
Hour 2 As our last look at how the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed our world, we look at their impact on those who were kids then, what some demographers have called “the 9/11 Generation.” This [...] -
Parenting Teens September 8
Hour 2 The teenage years aren’t easy for anyone – not for kids or parents. Teens face dating, driving, social networks, school and peer pressure, and they increasingly long for independence. Many parents though are conflicted out their [...] -
Philadelphia youth on violence, jobs, recreation and more August 17
Hour 1 With so much talk about violent so-called “flash mobs” in Philadelphia, many are wondering: Have Philadelphia’s teenagers gone crazy? Or are the media blowing the crimes and misbehavior of a few bad apples way out of [...] -
What to do about violent flash mobs in Philadelphia? August 9
Hour 1 We’ll discuss the “flash-mob” youth violence crime wave plaguing the city of Philadelphia, what’s causing it and the city’s official response, which was announced by Mayor Michael Nutter yesterday [Monday Aug. 8]. In it, Mayor Nutter [...] -
Free Birth Control? Covering Prevention Services for Women August 1
Hour 1 An expert panel for the Institute of Medicine recently released recommendations for improving women’s health. The Institute identified eight preventive services that could improve women’s lives and that health insurance plans should cover, including contraception, at [...] -
Are Childhood Food Allergies on the Rise? July 13
Hour 1 A recent study in the Journal Pediatrics found that food allergies among children are more widespread than previously thought. According to the report, almost six million children have allergic reactions to peanuts, milk, shellfish or other [...] -
Is Young Adult Fiction Too Dark? July 6
Hour 2 There’s a debate going on about young adult fiction. In an article in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago, children's book critic MEGHAN COX GURDON argued that young adult books (or YA for short) [...] -
Make the Bread, Buy the Butter July 5
Hour 2 After journalist Jennifer Reese lost her job as book reviewer for Entertainment Weekly in 2008, she decided it was time to save her family some money. So she started cooking from scratch and making foods usually purchased in [...] -
Have charter schools fulfilled their promise? June 27
Hour 1 Since 1997 when Pennsylvania first authorized the establishment of charter schools, over 70,000 students in grades K-12 have enrolled in one of 135 "bricks and mortar" charter schools and a dozen cyber charter schools state-wide . [...] -
The Effects of Violence on Kids June 27
Hour 2 It’s no surprise that soldiers fighting in war zones develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from the fighting and the bloodshed. But far more children suffer from PTSD from the violence they witness or experience at home or [...] -
Hollywood's fathers, with film historian David Thomson June 16
Hour 2 In time for Father’s Day, we take a look back at memorable fathers in film history with film historian and critic DAVID THOMSON, author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film and a library’s worth of [...] -
The challenge of preparing students for college and, once they are there, finish June 8
The Obama administration has set an ambitious goal for the nation's students –by 2020, every American should get at least a year of post-high-school education. But many high school graduates now enter college ill-prepared to tackle the coursework. [...] -
Teresa Nicholas: Buryin' Daddy June 2
Hour 2 Writer TERESA NICHOLAS went home to Yazoo City, Mississippi to reconcile her father’s death and comfort her mother. She had been a book publicist for more than 20 years, a Northeast life she wanted to escape [...] -
Kids and sports — when is it too much? June 1
Hour 2 For parents with kids involved in sports, spring and summer schedules are overflowing with and dictated by Little League, soccer and lacrosse games and swim meets — but could all this focus on athletics detrimental to [...] -
Ina May Gaskin, America's leading midwife May 31
Hour 2 INA MAY GASKIN has often been called “America’s leading midwife.” She has practiced for nearly 40 years at The Farm Midwifery Center in Summertown, Tennessee, attending well over 1,200 births, and she’s the only midwife who’s [...] -
Andrew Ferguson's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College May 30
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] The United States higher education system is an international bragging right. Many overseas families send their children off to the States, investing in a commodity that is supposed to have infinite returns. Some brilliant [...] -
Support for Military Families May 23
Hour 2 Last month Michelle Obama and Jill Biden announced the initiative “Joining Forces” to focus on the issues facing military families, the people President Obama has referred to as the “force behind the force.” The program will [...] -
David Goldman's international battle to reclaim his son May 13
Hour 2 In December 2009, New Jersey’s DAVID GOLDMAN took custody of his son Sean, then 9 years old and living with his grandparents in Brazil. That reunion came after David waged a six-year, international legal and diplomatic [...] -
Teen Driving and Safety May 10
Hour 2 Do you remember learning to drive as a teenager? Have you recently taught one of your kids the rules of the road? Teens behind the wheel unnerve a lot of us and for good reason. Teens [...] -
Philadelphia public school update May 5
Hour 1 With an estimated $629 million shortfall, the School District of Philadelphia warns of dramatic cuts in administrative and teaching staff, the elimination of full-day kindergarten, and reductions in art, music, gifted education and summer programs, as well [...] -
Times Two: When both moms are pregnant simultaneously April 29
Hour 2 One’s a rock star, bassist for the all-female band Antigone Rising. The other’s the VP of Real Simple Magazine. When KRISTEN HENDERSON and SARAH KATE ELLIS fell in love and decided to start a family, they [...]

