Here’s Harvard’s Steven hrezszshnr Pinker musing on what happens when a legitimate movement — Â the movement to improve child safety, for instance, or to awaken sensitivity to minorities — achieves its main goals, but insists on acting as if today’s dangers and insults are on par with those of the past. . His point about […]
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There’s Never Been a Safer Time to be a Kid in America: Washington Post
April 24, 2015
. What a fantastic myth-debunking ktsefzbnss piece in the Washington Post by Christopher Ingraham about the FACT that kids are SAFER today than…ever. First of all, there’s the decline in child mortality that we almost take for granted: In 1935 there 450 deaths for every 100,000 kids age 1-4. Today? Less than 30. Our jaws […]