Kathleen Parker

`Save the males" was a moderately cute bumper sticker, once upon a time. Now it's a mandate. Not for men, necessarily. I trust that most men can fend for themselves....

As I grow older, I can't help wondering: Will Barbie ever die? She's beginning to get on my nerves. I don't like people who keep changing their looks and personalities...

Searching for signs of the times? Look no further than a billboard near the Charlotte, N.C. airport that nearly caused me to swerve off the road: "Who's the Father?" That...

By today's zero-tolerance standards of child's play, my brother and I should have been sent to the electric chair decades ago. In fact, every child in our neighborhood and at...

People of sound mind may as well join a religious sect in Uganda. Here's what's happening in your world: At Haverford College in Haverford, Pa., where some dorms already feature...

Ted's jaw dropped perceptibly as I described how easily he could find pornography on the Internet. It's as simple as pushing a button, I said. No, it couldn't be that...

No one understands the malaise of the unappreciated stay-at-home mom like a stay-at-home dad. Yes, the world boasts a few full-time dads. Hmmmm, does that make working parents part-time moms...

Forget the world is your oyster. For today's girls, the world is an opera-length strand of pearls. From astronaut to athlete, there's nothing a girl can't do. Well, except for...

Quick, somebody sell me a bridge over the Sahara before I grow a brain. I don't know how to explain my recent lapse in common sense. Was my body snatched...

Another shooting, another child dead, another round of debate. This time, the age and innocence of both victim and shooter push the limits of rational thought. Unlike previous school shootings,...