Elizabeth Grace Matthew in Law & Liberty critiques the latest fad in child-rearing: “gentle parenting.” She argues against excessively elevating a child’s feelings while incessantly but ineffectually “helicopter” parenting. Matthew suggests that stewarding our children’s intellectual and spiritual formation demands real parental authority based on objective standards, with the goal of building our children’s relationships with the wider world.
Inhuman for Criminals, the Luck of the Draw for You and Me
The EU may have banished the “‘inhuman,’ ‘degrading,’ and ‘irreversible’” death penalty for criminals, writes Frank Haviland in The European Conservative – but its member states’ soft-on-crime, easy-on-illegal-immigrants policies are making violent death an increasingly common fate for innocent Europeans. In a world gripped by barbarian forces, writes Haviland, it’s time for Great Britain to hold a national referendum on restoring an older form of justice.
