The Comment Factory

I felt disgusting, ugly, and the worst part was that I blamed myself for my ugliness. That was probably what hurt the most – when a parent would say ”your eyebrows are so thin, have you pulled again?” and I’d become angry and say no, on the inside, I’d scream at myself because I knew it was the truth – and I felt like I was making myself uglier, when I could become more beautiful

MacDonald’s assertion is rooted in an supremely false assumption: she demands that if poverty and crime are correlated, they should automatically increase in equal and immediate proportion.

As London Law Firm Mischon de Reya release figures that show that 38% of children affected by divorce and separation never see their father again, Karen Woodall discusses the silence surrounding the issue of children and family separation and the opportunities ahead for positive change

A Prevention Wing of the Military consisting of 3% of the armed forces of Nepal could achieve this goal. This special unit would be trained in Invincible Defence Technology and would collectively practice its ancient Vedic technologies of consciousness – the Transcendental Meditation (TM) and TM-Sidhi programs – in large groups, twice a day

Could Peter and Katie show the UK how to rebuild a business like relationship for the sake of their children. With celebs joining the ranks of policiticians and agony aunts advising government, the time has never been better for the two who have built a business out of making their private life public to put something back

A new dawn in Chinese education

Hitler was pure evil, of that there is little doubt, but such an evaluation should be the start of a commentary and attempted understanding of his character, not simply a start and end point in itself. If he is dismissed as such, we are removing the need to chart back through history. We are bypassing the necessity to analyse and see why he came to embody such evil; why his anger was so entrenched by Versailles; why his views and propaganda were so successful; and how he came to be in a position to express European anti-Semitism so violently. In short, if we dehumanise, we are removing the burden to understand and comprehend, and in doing so, amplifying the possibility of it happening again.

Social networks are not real but are increasingly treated as such

There is a tendency now to treat any loosely-defined abnormal behavior in children with drugs, but this is dangerous because negative emotions are an ineradicable part of being a young person and there are more healthy ways to deal with it

The focus on the actions of individual policeman at the G20 protest in London ignores the grave errors made higher up the chain

There is a pervasive idea in society that mums are by definition better parents than dads. This is often not the case and the governments ‘Think Father’ campaign is welcome, as is Jade Goody’s conduct in her last moments

The Good Childhood Inquiry, which shows distressing levels of unhappiness amongst Britain’s young, does not take into account changing moral and cultural paradigms, and is flawed as a result.