Parents today have about 22 less hours per week to spend with their kids than did parents in 1969. Competing interests like work, childcare, and other responsibilities compete for our time, and the more time spent away from our kids, the more likely they are to struggle in life. Of course, we all want our children to succeed, and we understand that the more we work with them, the better they’ll do. Yet, often, we let an hour here or an hour there slip by for things that we really shouldn’t be doing in the first place. While I….read more

In today’s permissive society there are few taboos left. Teenagers are educated in areas of sex that would have shocked and embarrassed many married couples in previous centuries. Fantasies are discussed freely; and films become more and more explicit. Premarital sex is virtually the norm. Homosexuality, S&M, group sex, wife-swapping – all can be freely discussed in polite society now. More concern is registered over someone making a value judgement against such practices than whether or not someone indulges in them.

But one bastion of privacy and shame remains, and that….read more