Author's articles
Who Am I? The Question of Violence
By Gina Stepp · 16 years ago
"In violence, we forget who we are," said American novelist Mary McCarthy.
If these words are true, we may be facing a generation of children who, despite the number of profile pages they may have ...
Give Sorrow More Than Words
By Gina Stepp · 16 years ago
The last decade has seen great strides in understanding some of the brain science behind emotions like sorrow and joy—at least of the mechanics. Using the latest technology, scientists can see what goes on materially ...
Smart Men Make Passes at Women with Glasses
By Gina Stepp · 16 years ago
Meet Christine Whelan—an attractive, 29-year-old woman with a PhD from Oxford University. When I spoke with her she happened to be single, having been dumped two years earlier by a man who told her she ...
Child-Development Illiteracy: A Growing Problem?
By Gina Stepp · 16 years ago
The structure of the modern nuclear family is a relatively new invention when considered along the timeline of human history. Long before "Leave It to Beaver" ideals became the norm, families didn’t isolate themselves from ...
Dogged! Pluto Stripped of Planetary Status
By Gina Stepp · 16 years ago
Christine Lavin’s folk albums have been enjoyed in our house since before my oldest child was born. Of course, if you aren't familiar with the singer, you may well wonder why her name opens an ...
The Neuroscience of Motherhood
By Gina Stepp · 16 years ago
Forget the "decade of the brain": it’s becoming evident that the modern fascination with neuroscience is not going away anytime this century. The fact is, thanks to the neurobiological revolution, nothing is what it used ...
Like Father, Like . . . Daughter?
By Gina Stepp · 16 years ago
Baseball hard-hitter Harmon Killebrew tells a story that hints at the importance of fathers to boys: "My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard," he says on his Web site. ...
Through the Looking Glass: Mirror Neurons and Moral Nonsense
By Gina Stepp · 16 years ago
Scanning the past week's news, one gets the distinct impression there has been an unusually high number of "man's inhumanity to man" stories. Darfur, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel. Kidnapped children, boys arrested for planning an attack ...
Feminism: The Complementary Angle
By Gina Stepp · 16 years ago
When it first dawned on Betty Friedan that something was wrong with the role of women in society, she was quite correct. Of course, she was not the first in history to notice, or the ...