Animals and Innocents

2003 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 559-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Wall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
John Calvin ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Friedrich Schleiermacher ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
United States Today ◽  
Meaning And Purpose

This article develops a Christian ethics of child-rearing that addresses the plight of children in the United States today. It seeks greater clarity on what Christians should view as child-rearing's larger meaning and purpose, as well as the responsibilities this meaning and purpose impose on parents, communities, churches, and the state. The article first explores three major but quite distinct models of child-rearing ethics in the Christian tradition—those of Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, and Friedrich Schleiermacher—and then proposes a new “critical covenant” that appropriates these traditions, in conjunction with feminist and liberationist critiques, into a publicly meaningful Christian ethics of child-rearing for today.

Let the Little Children Come: Child Rearing as Challenge to Contemporary Christian Ethics

Horizons ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Wall
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Social Ethic ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
United States Today ◽  
Contemporary Christian ◽  
Historical Past

ABSTRACTA contemporary culture of market individualism in the United States today is increasingly marginalizing the lives of children. This situation requires Christian ethicists to raise once again, as in the historical past, the question of the larger meaning and purpose of child rearing as a serious disciplinary concern. This paper identifies fundamental issues of child rearing ontology, teleology, deontology, and practice, and maps out some newly emerging Christian ethical responses by communitarians, liberationists, and covenantalists. It then develops a larger social ethics of child rearing—drawing on a range of historical theological resources—able to speak to children's issues in a disciplinarily complex, publicly meaningful, and culturally transformative way. Its argument is that child rearing should be rescued from its increasing social privatization through a revised covenantal social ethic that strengthens the unique tasks of families but also places them within a larger interdependent nexus of community and state supports.

What Every Child Would Like His Parents to Know, by Lee Salk. New York: David McKay, 1972, 239 pp., $6.95

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-354
Author(s):  
Robert G. Aug
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
The United States ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Early Prevention ◽  
First Line ◽  
United States Today ◽  
Adequate Care ◽  
The Everyday

Dr. Salk opens this book with an eloquent plea for greater help for parents in handling the "normal emotional problems" which are part of the everyday lives of their children. He puts this plea in the context of the prevalence of psychiatric illness in the United States today, coupled with the drastic shortage of enough professionals to give adequate care and treatment. Dr. Salk is not the first to seek to answer this problem by better early prevention via improved child-rearing practices by parents, who are "the first line of emotional care"; but he states the case much more effectively than most, and he goes on to provide in this book one of the most thorough, clear, and effective guides available for helping parents achieve such good child-rearing practices.

Violence, Social Movements, and Black Freedom Struggles

Contention ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
AK Thompson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Today ◽  
Black Freedom ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Research Agendas ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Freedom Struggles

George Floyd’s murder by police on 26 May 2020 set off a cycle of struggle that was notable for its size, intensity, and rate of diffusion. Starting in Minneapolis, the uprising quickly spread to dozens of other major cities and brought with it a repertoire that included riots, arson, and looting. In many places, these tactics coexisted with more familiar actions like public assemblies and mass marches; however, the inflection these tactics gave to the cycle of contention is not easily reconciled with the protest repertoire most frequently mobilized during movement campaigns in the United States today. This discrepancy has led to extensive commentary by scholars and movement participants, who have often weighed in by considering the moral and strategic efficacy of the chosen tactics. Such considerations should not be discounted. Nevertheless, I argue that both the dynamics of contention witnessed during the uprising and their ambivalent relationship to the established protest repertoire must first be understood in historical terms. By considering the relationship between violence, social movements, and Black freedom struggles in this way, I argue that scholars can develop a better understanding of current events while anticipating how the dynamics of contention are likely to develop going forward. Being attentive to these dynamics should in turn inform our research agendas, and it is with this aim in mind that I offer the following ten theses.

Invisible Government and Democracy in the United States Today

1938 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 815
Author(s):  
Charles J. Bushnell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Today

VI. Examining Theological Appropriations of Problematic Historical Dissent

Horizons ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-154
Author(s):  
John P. Slattery
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Contemporary Problem ◽  
The United States ◽  
Church History ◽  
Holy See ◽  
Chattel Slavery ◽  
United States Today ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Modern Experience

This contribution will examine several theological methods used to understand morally egregious examples of historical dissent in the Catholic Church. From the 1600s to the late 1800s, large numbers of Catholics in the young United States dissented from the Holy See in one particularly egregious manner: their support for and defense of chattel slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. While chattel slavery is universally declared horrific and immoral, its vestiges have not been erased from church history, nor has its influence been eradicated in the modern experience of Christians in the United States today. After naming the contemporary problem caused by this historical example of dissent and analyzing theological approaches to ameliorate this problem, I will propose a theological-historical approach that may offer better solutions in the future.

Limited English Proficiency and Disparities in Clinical Research

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Bustillos
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Genetic Predisposition ◽  
Limited English Proficiency ◽  
Environmental Pollutants ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Today ◽  
United States Population ◽  
Physical Susceptibility

Imagine that you possess an indicator for a disease or illness that has nothing to do with your body. It is not a genetic predisposition to acquire cancer or a vice that raises the probability of contracting some dread disease, though estimates of its health risks have placed it on par with having diabetes. It has nothing to do with the environmental pollutants you are exposed to or whether you can afford health care. It is not a physical susceptibility that renders you more easily reachable by the clutches of pathology. No, this indicator of health hinges on certain learned abilities and skills, and it is a barrier to health that is totally within the health field's power and resources to lift.The condition hinted at above is the inability to speak English proficiently in the United States. Today, more than one-sixth of the United States population speaks a language other than English at home, and this number (approximately 50 million people) is increasing rapidly.

Calling for a Pro-Love Movement: A Contextualized Theo-Ethical Examination of Reproductive Health Care and Abortion in the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-159
Author(s):  
Jeanie Whitten-Andrews
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Equitable Access ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Suggested Approach ◽  
Reproductive Health Care ◽  
Political Debates

In the midst of extreme and dualistic religio-political debates regarding women’s sexual wellness and abortion, one begins to wonder what a new theo-ethical approach might look like which rejects overly-simplistic, harmful understandings of such crucial issues. What might it look like to truly centre women’s full human experiences, loving each other in a way that addresses harm and meets tangible needs? This article examines the complex inequitable structural and institutional realities of sexual wellness and abortion through an intersectional theo-ethical lens. The article then proceeds to suggest a new socio-religio-political ‘Pro-Love’ philosophy, undergirded by foundational theological understandings of justice-oriented love, and situated within the broad fields of Feminist, Liberation, Process, and Queer Theologies, within the Christian tradition. The suggested approach requires systematically addressing root issues affecting the lack of equitable access to sexual wellness and the racist/sexist/classist structures forcing women into under-resourced and unsafe environments, leading to high demand for abortion services.

Rethinking Market Regulation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John N. Drobak
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Regulatory Regime ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Popular Belief ◽  
The Past ◽  
United States Today ◽  
The Common ◽  
The U.S

Rethinking Market Regulation: Helping Labor by Overcoming Economic Myths tackles the plight of workers who lose their jobs from mergers and outsourcing by examining two economic “principles,” or narratives that have shaped the perception of the economic system in the United States today: (1) the notion that the U.S. economy is competitive, making government market regulation unnecessary, and (2) the claim that corporations exist for the benefit of their shareholders but not for other stakeholders. Contrary to popular belief, this book demonstrates that many markets are not competitive but rather are oligopolistic. This conclusion undercuts the common refrain that government market regulation is unnecessary because competition already provides sufficient constraints on business. Part of the lack of competition has resulted from the large mergers over the past few years, many of which have resulted in massive layoffs. The second narrative has justified the outsourcing of millions of jobs of U.S. workers this century, made possible by globalization. The book argues that this narrative is not an economic principle but rather a normative position. In effect, both narratives are myths, although they are accepted as truisms by many people. The book ties together a concern for the problems of using economic principles as a justification for the lack of government intervention with the harm that has been caused to workers. The book’s recommendations for a new regulatory regime are a prescription for helping labor by limiting job losses from mergers and outsourcing.

An Ordinary Soviet Death

2019 ◽  
pp. 127-149
Author(s):  
Victoria Smolkin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
The West ◽  
Rational Argument ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter describes the timing and motivations of the USSR's promotion of atheist doctrine. At the outset, it seems, the Soviets expected Orthodoxy to wither away, invalidated by rational argument and the regime's own record of socialist achievement. This did not happen, but Soviet officialdom did not take full cognizance of the fact until the 1950s and 1960s at the height of the Cold War. Then it was that the Soviet Union's confrontation with the West came to be recast in religious terms as an epic battle between atheist communism on the one hand and on the other that self-styled standard-bearer of the Judeo-Christian tradition, the United States. So, here indeed, in Soviet atheism, is a secular church militant—doctrinally armed, fortified by the concentrated power of the modern state, and, as many believed, with the wind of history at its back. It speaks the language of liberation, but what it delivers is something much darker. The chapter then considers the place of ritual in the Soviet secularist project.

How Widespread Is It?

ADHD ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen P. Hinshaw ◽  
Katherine Ellison
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Today ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Actual Prevalence

How Prevalent is ADHD in the United States Today, for Both Children and Adults? Before we answer this question, let’s be clear about the difference between a condition’s actual prevalence and its diagnosed prevalence. Prevalence of ADHD is just what it sounds...

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