The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Who Owns Your Children? The Government Keeps Acting Like It Does Derrick Broze Governments across the world continue to take actions that reflect the belief that it is not parents who are the guardians of their children but the state itself. In September, the First Circuit  Court of Appeals  heard arguments in a high-profile case  regarding whether a school violated parents’ constitutional rights by actively encouraging their 11-year-old daughter to transition her gender while keeping it a secret from the parents. School officials followed a school board policy that encourages them to privately meet with the child and affirm her gender transition, allow her to use the boys’ bathroom, and instruct everyone at school to use her new name and pronouns. The school also asserted that the parents weren’t providing a safe environment at home. The school’s attorney argued in court that parents do not have a right to know about their child’s “gender transition” because “you can’t decide to hav

Not the fictional End of Us, either. The end of Homo Sapiens Sapiens. ELIZABETH NICKSON NOV 5, 2023   Jordan Peterson’s face morphed through a series of changes as he realized that nine out of ten women who don’t have children, wanted them. Ready to blame the culture of narcissism, he stalled confused, wrestling his face to neutral.  I knew that fact from experience.  For the many women I know who don’t have children, it is an abiding sorrow. From country to country, class to class, race to race, the sorrow is coruscating and it is ignored or diminished. Only one in ten women actually don’t want children. One in ten is infertile, but the rest who don’t have children and that is one-third of us and counting, wanted them. By the time they are in their 40’s and incapable, badly. Steven F Shaw searches for answers in   Birth Gap , his masterwork documentary, the first part of which you can watch   here . The most obvious is that they waited too long, thinking it was possible, their ‘career