Mark Oppenheimer

"Daddy, What's a Sperm Donor?"

This is the question I fear most

This is the question I fear most.

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Raising Children Requires Outsourcing

All parents do it, whether they realize it or not

All parents do it, whether they realize it or not.

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Making Time for TV

Why parents who love television should let their kids watch, too

Why parents who love television should let their kids watch, too.

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Maybe It's Time I Picked Up a Pot Habit

A father of three considers a late-night high

A married father of three considers doing what he's never done: smoke pot habitually.

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Most new religions, like most new businesses, die a quick crib death. Scientology, however, is not about to disappear. Scholars put the number of adherents in this country at about 25,000—a far cry from the millions of members its leaders claim, but hardly insignificant for a group that was founded about 50 years ago. Despite all its bad press, the allegations that it terrorizes its critics, its cult-like secrecy and hounding of apostates, and its very weird science-fiction cosmogony, it has become a part of the fabric of communities across the country.

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The Testament of Mary is a first-person novella, but it is also an argument about the contingent nature of the Christian tradition.

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A father hurries to his daughter's school after learning of the Newtown massacre.

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If Newton Leroy Gingrich becomes the Republican candidate for president of the United States, then the 2012 election will be a contest between two men who found new religions fairly late in life. Gingrich is on his third religion: He was raised a Lutheran, later became a Southern Baptist, and in 2009 was received into the Roman Catholic church. President Obama, having been raised in an irreligious home, famously found faith as an adult in Chicago, where he was baptized in 1988 by Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.

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Speak Now

If Menaker simply wished to write a short, highly personal book on conversation, he ought to have expanded his lists of do's and don’ts and been freer

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