If your daughter steals your ATM card or your son drives drunk, should you— would you—call the cops on them? Where does parental responsibility end and police intervention begin?... Read full article

Monitoring, blocking, filtering, tracking. Parenting these days includes an arsenal of tools to find out what kids are up to. But should it include renting drug-sniffing dogs to prowl through their bedrooms?... Read full article

We are a nation that pulls itself up by the bootstraps. But are we also a nation that needs to pull up its pants? A 17-year-old Florida boy was recently jailed overnight for violating a local “sagging pants” law after a police officer spotted him riding his bike with his pants slung low enough to reveal four or five inches of boxer shorts. Should government be responsible for telling citizens what to wear?... Read full article

The shocking news from the small fishing town of Gloucester, Massachusetts spread across the country and around the world: 17 girls from one high school were pregnant, part of a supposed ‘pregnancy pact’ in which the students intentionally set out to become teen mothers, with a vow to raise their babies together.... Read full article