Title: Re: parenting and socioeconomic classes
At 8:47 AM -0500 3/9/06, Beth Benoit wrote:
The following article appeared in today's New York Times.  It's very thought-provoking, and I'm assigning it to my Human Development and Child Psych. courses for discussion.  I thought others might want to take a look at it too.
But they did not prepare their kids for a world in which verbal skills and the ability to thrive in organizations are so important. To help the worse-off parents, we should raise the earned-income tax credit to lessen their economic stress. But the core issue is that today's rich don't exploit the poor; they just outcompete them.

  Typical David Brooks:
Heavy on the anecdotes,
ever so nicely
Social Darwinism
-- 
The best argument against Intelligent Design is that fact that
people believe in it.

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