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A Father’s Close Encounter
You’ve gotta love it when one of the most powerful men in Hollywood is humble enough to second-guess a decades-old creative decision and, in doing
The Difference a Teen Mom Makes
Recently, a new report called “The Millennials, Religion, and Abortion Survey” was released by the Public Religion Research Institute. It’s being characterized as one of
The Finals and Me, Me, Me
Generally speaking, Plugged In doesn’t wade into the happenings of the sports world. Occasionally, though, something happens in that realm that’s worthy of our scrutiny.
Family Media Surprise
For generations, parents have told their kids, “Shut off the TV and go outside!” And in the last decade or so, we can add iPods,
Movie Monday: Super Bummer Weekend
It was a middling weekend at the box office—both in terms of the offerings moviegoers might hope to find there and the returns those films
A Zettabyte Is Big. Really Big.
A colleague and I sometimes laugh about weird headlines. My favorites from the past week or so include “Fearsome Lawn Ornament Shot Dead by Cops,”
Marveling at a One-Rating World
“Is the PG-13 rating helping or hurting families?” That’s the question I posed in an article published in Plugged In magazine in the summer of
World of Divorcecraft
Can video games instigate a divorce? According to a study by the website Divorce Online, the answer—in a small but growing number of marriages—is apparently
Your Sniffer or Your Smartphone?
Even though I was an English major, I still took two classes in anatomy and physiology in college. In addition to memorizing the names of
Movie Monday: X-Men First
Just because X-Men was the fittest of the flock and more than just survived the weekend box office race does not mean that Darwin was
Plugged In Parent’s Guide to Today’s Technology
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