Imagine sitting in a doctor's office and receiving this news:

Good morning, Mrs. Santos. I have the results of the screening test you had last week, 12 weeks into your pregnancy. The test indicates a high likelihood that your baby will be a typically developing ...

True or false: Our educational system gives boys an academic advantage.

Answer: A resounding yes, when Leave It To Beaver was the TV ratings champ. But Richard Whitmire, author of Why Boys Fail: Saving Our Sons From An Educational System That's Leaving Them Behind ...

Last Friday a friend forwarded me a link to an article titled "Are Pregnant Athletes Selfish?" She guessed correctly that I might have something to say about it. It took one glance at the big black letters of the headline for my hackles to rise. The subtitle, ...

The other shoe has dropped here in Washington, D.C., in a long conflict between the local Catholic diocese and the District of Columbia.

After warning for months that the District's pending same-sex marriage law—slated to go into effect March 2—put ...

(10) "China's Own Marriage Crisis," by Alicia Cohn // Comments: 6
Gender imbalance due to sex-specific abortions signals imminent crisis in the Chinese family.

(9) "Hookup Culture: Mostly a Myth," by Donna Freitas, guest blogger // Comments: 8 Last Sunday's NYT ...

A team of researchers at Georgia's health science university, the Medical College of Georgia (MCG), announced last week that they are conducting a clinical trial using stem cells from umbilical-cord blood as a treatment for cerebral palsy. The trial will build ...

As one of the 40 percent of Americans who makes New Year's resolutions, in January I started going to a local gym three times a week. Wanting to stay active during Chicago's long winter, I soon saw those lectures about the benefits of exercise from my dad—a ...

When I picked up the Style section of The New York Times last Sunday, I was excited to see the front-page feature, "The New Math on Campus," a look at how the gender imbalance on college campuses (60 percent women, 40 percent men at some schools) is affecting ...

I had known this day would come. My husband, a pre-med student, had been planning a month-long trip to northern Uganda for a social medicine course, and January 12 was his departure date. I thought that would leave me spending the month at baby showers, coffee ...

The dreams, the sacrifices, the glory, the pageantry, Bob Costas—I don't care if the Winter Olympics are the "less fun cousin" of the Summer Games, for the next two weeks I intend to plant myself in front of the TV and watch as much of the action in Vancouver ...

Everybody knows someone who considered having an abortion. It may be a friend, cousin, sister, aunt, or your own mother … and you may not even know about it.

Even if you didn't watch the Super Bowl last Sunday, you probably heard about the pro-life ad funded ...

One of my favorite Bible passages is from Psalm 34. Verses 4 and 5 read: "I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed" (ESV).

I have seen that kind of radiant ...

Justice is what love looks like in public, so says Princeton professor and pop philosopher Cornel West. When we think of justice though, we generally think of that which is found in courts or through political activism, or, failing these avenues of redress, what ...

J. D. Salinger, best known for his teen-angst novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951), died last week at the age of 91 after living as a recluse for 50 years on his 90-acre compound in Cornish, New Hampshire. His death leaves the literati frothing at the mouth as ...

When is the right time to leave home? Italian government minister Renato Brunetta thinks it's age 18, and recently suggested a new law to require it.

Brunetta's proposal is a reaction to an Italian judge's decision that Giancarlo Casagrande resume paying a monthly ...