Tiger mums not great for human children

Have parents become too afraid of tough love? Tim Soutphommasane, The Australian
Tim Soutphommasane asks in The Australian "Have parents become too afraid of tough love?"
"THREE years ago, journalist Lenore Skenazy wrote a column in The New York Sun about letting her nine-year-old son ride the New York subway on his own. ...Overnight it made her "America's worst mom". ..."Skenazy may now have to move over. America has a new "worst mom", Amy Chua. A law professor at Yale University, Chua has written Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, a memoir that celebrates the strict regimen of "Chinese" parenting."

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Per Capita on Life Matters

Per Capita's David Hetherington will appear tomorrow, Monday 1st February on Life Matters, ABC Radio National, at 9am.

Per Capita on ABC24's The Drum

Per Capita's David Hetherington will appear tonight, Monday 31st January 2011 on The Drum, ABC News24, at 6pm.

Per Capita on ABC24's The Drum

Watch Per Capita's Tim Soutphommasane appear on ABC24's The Drum (iView 26/01/11) http://bit.ly/fBufdR

Watch Per Capita's David Hetherington appear on ABC24's The Drum (iView 19/01/11) http://bit.ly/fBufdR

6pm The Drum ABC24

Tim Soutphommasane will appear tonight at 6pm on The Drum on ABC24

Alan Stokes calls for the revival of a volunteer corps

In today's AFR Alan Stokes calls for the revival of a national volunteer corps and cites Tim Suthphommasane idea of a new patriotism through national service, civic or military duty.

David Hetherington to appear on ABC24 The Drum tonight at 6pm

David Hetherington, Executive Director, Per Capita, will appear on The Drum ABC News24 at 6pm tonight, 19th January 2011. #auspol #ausvotes

SOCIAL-DEMOCRAT parties lack self-belief

Per Capita Fellow Dennis Glover writes in the Australian “SOCIAL-DEMOCRAT parties have many problems at present, but perhaps the most serious is the lack of self-belief that results from their tendency to underestimate the potential appeal of the progressive agenda.” Read the full article here