Father's Day is almost here but our opinions have arrived
Father's Day is around the corner and instead of guides for what to buy the father figure in your life, we offer some inciteful columns on the roles dads have played and on a very personal journey of self-discovery and love.
We hope you have a great day. Here we go.
Sorry, Harvard, fathers still matter
Harvard research is part and parcel of a larger effort to call into question the idea that married, two-parent families matter not just for Black children but, indeed, all children. In an Atlantic article celebrating family diversity, the sociologist Pamela Braboy Jackson said, “All of our research points to the fact that it’s the quality of the relationship that matters, and the handling of communication and conflict, and the number of people in the household is not really the key” for the welfare of our kids.
There’s only one problem with this revisionist effort that relies on cherry-picking a few findings to fit its narrative: it obscures the full truth from the sciences about the importance of two-parent families for kids.
Black children from two-parent homes do better than children from single-parent homes when it comes to prison, poverty and graduating college.
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Larry Strauss: I love my gay dad
Whenever I meet a married couple of the same sex, I think of my father, and how he and Lionel, alongside their friends and peers, helped to break the road. I’m proud of his commitment to justice – for all people.
And I’m grateful for his love for and commitment to my brother and me. The man had no interest in basketball and didn’t even understand the game, but he took me to one of the most legendary games in basketball history. Actually, when Willis Reed hobbled out onto the court and we all stood up with a collective roar, and when Willis hit the first two shots, I don’t believe my father had any trouble understanding the transcendence we were witnessing.
Most of all, I’m grateful for my father’s patience with me.
Long-haul lessons from COVID
Dr. Ami N. Shah writes about what the pandemic might have to teach.
As many parts of the world start to open up from the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccinated people no longer need masks in many cities in the U.S. and beyond, it feels as if the world is returning to pre-pandemic life.
The pandemic was a difficult time for most everyone. For many in health care, COVID-19 was like war. As a physician, I understand many of us essential workers came home with the post-traumatic stress symptoms seen in military veterans and trauma victims.
Still, from the past year and a half, there are lessons I want to keep.
Biden jobs plan will open opportunities for us
Jennifer Granholm was the 47th governor of Michigan and currently serves as U.S. Energy Secretary. She wrote a column on President Biden's American Jobs Plan.
Imbalances with China have made our economy vulnerable to supply chain disruptions and put us at a huge disadvantage in the global clean energy race.
There’s no doubt we’re playing catch-up. But if we go big now, we can more than make up for lost ground. The American Jobs Plan will grow an economy that lifts millions of families into the middle class while tackling the climate crisis, once and for all. It will give generations of American workers a safer, healthier, more prosperous future.
Medical marijuana a godsend for NFL players
Jordan Reed played for eight seasons in the National Football League. He takes a look at medical marijuana and the NFL.
It is beyond me that marijuana is still classified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a Schedule I Drug, with “no currently accepted medical use,” despite the plethora of scientific studies that suggest otherwise.
How is marijuana still in the same classification as heroin as more and more case studies come to light, including my own, where medical cannabis helped treat the traumatic brain injuries I suffered from concussions on the football field?
Research shows the benefits of cannabis.
This newsletter was compiled by Louie Villalobos