My son’s new favorite TV show is PBS Kids’ Between the Lions, which teaches early-reading skills through the tales of a pair of lions and their cubs who run a library. It’s pedagogically one of the best educational shows around—though I’ll continue to save the top spot for the venerable Sesame Street. Between the Lions […]
The lower house of the Dutch parliament has agreed with a government proposal to allow same-sex couples to adopt children from abroad. Currently, same-sex couples can adopt children from the Netherlands, but not from elsewhere. The new law would also change adoption procedures to make it easier for same-sex couples to adopt from countries that
A Canadian baby is the first to be born using the process of “in vitro maturation (IVM),” in which an egg was matured in a lab, frozen, thawed, and then fertilized. Traditional in vitro fertilization (IVF) requires a series of hormone treatments that cause the ovaries to produce multiple mature eggs. IVM, which takes immature
Children are viewed as less central to marriage today, although they are still one of the highest sources of personal fulfillment, according to a new national survey by the Pew Research Center. (Thanks, WaPo.) Today, by almost three-to-one, Americans say the main purpose of marriage is the “mutual happiness and fulfillment” of adults rather than
