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America’s 4 parenting cultures: Which one is yours?

To really understand childrearing in the United States, researchers with the University of Virginia say, take a look at the country’s “Four Family Cultures.” These different groups, which scholars detailed as part of the Culture of American Families Project (an initiative of the university’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) are more than parenting styles. They are moral ecosystems; whole belief structures that shape parents’ aspirations for their children and influence what parents teach as good and bad. 

Why Iran’s iron ayatollah distrusts the US and what that means for nuclear talks and the possibility of war with the West. 

(Source: csmonitor.com)

“We are an American family and we rise or fall together as one nation. Whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you, I have learned from you, and you have made me a better president.” ~ President Obamahttp://ow.ly/f5KoU Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor

“We are an American family and we rise or fall together as one nation. Whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you, I have learned from you, and you have made me a better president.” ~ President Obama
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Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor

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Paul Ryan: bold, risky pick for Romney VP

In choosing Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt #Romney has gone bold – and risky.

Congressman #Ryan of Wisconsin is more than just the young, articulate chairman of the House Budget Committee. He is the author of a controversial budget proposal that would reduce taxes, cut government spending, and limit the growth of entitlements. Most controversially, he would turn Medicare, the government’s health-insurance program for seniors, into a voucher-like system, and Medicaid, health care for the poor, into block grants to the states.

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How Latin America is reinventing the war on drugs. http://ow.ly/cLBJd View high resolution

How Latin America is reinventing the war on drugs.

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Israel to Clinton: Tell us what Egypt is thinking

US secretaries of state usually devote their visits to the region shuttling between the Israelis and Palestinians, but as Hillary Clinton began her one-day stopover today, the focus is on two countries needing US mediation: Israel and Egypt.

A graphic from our feature, “Women in combat: US military on verge of making it official,” this week’s cover story. View high resolution

A graphic from our feature, “Women in combat: US military on verge of making it official,” this week’s cover story.

Women in combat: De facto warriors in Afghanistan and Iraq, women are now closer than ever to the “profession of combat arms.” The US military is opening jobs to them closer to the battlefield, and they are pushing to abolish job limits through legal battles. READ: Women in combat: US military on verge of making it official PHOTO: Col. Jeannie Leavitt, Commander of the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, N.C. is the first female jet fighter pilot in US history and first woman to command a fighter wing squadron. Military women largely have been unable to serve in such high commands because, barred from combat, they have been unable to get the experience they need to advance. (James Robinson/Special to the Christian Science Monitor) View high resolution

Women in combat: De facto warriors in Afghanistan and Iraq, women are now closer than ever to the “profession of combat arms.” The US military is opening jobs to them closer to the battlefield, and they are pushing to abolish job limits through legal battles.

READ: Women in combat: US military on verge of making it official

PHOTO: Col. Jeannie Leavitt, Commander of the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, N.C. is the first female jet fighter pilot in US history and first woman to command a fighter wing squadron. Military women largely have been unable to serve in such high commands because, barred from combat, they have been unable to get the experience they need to advance. (James Robinson/Special to the Christian Science Monitor)

Ouch. Editorial cartoon by Michael Ramirez. For more cartoons, visit our Commentary page. View high resolution

Ouch.

Editorial cartoon by Michael Ramirez. For more cartoons, visit our Commentary page.