Naomi Schaefer Riley
Author, Be the Parent Please: Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning Snapchat. Visiting Fellow, . Senior Fellow
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Do You Need Empathy to Be a Good Foster Parent?
Institute for Family Studies 4d 2 tweets
What does it take to be a foster parent? A 2018 investigation by the Boston Globe found that 2,000 Massachusetts foster families had stopped accepting foster kids into their homes in the previous five years. No doubt some of this falloff is because...
Naomi Schaefer Riley To the extent that we think of foster parents as people who must completely empathize with and become indignant at the injustice felt by those they care for, we may turn these roles into those of martyrs and saints. 4d
What Abigail Disney Doesn’t Know about Conservative Philanthropy
National Review 5d 1 tweets
In explaining her embrace of progressive causes, she implies that generosity is a virtue special to the Left.
Naomi Schaefer Riley What Abigail Disney Doesn’t Know about Conservative Philanthropy 5d
Fear in Crown Heights
City Journal 6d 1 tweets
Decades of progress in intercommunal relations are threatened by an outbreak of anti-Semitic attacks.
Why Orthodox Jews Have Been Hesitant to Adopt Outside Their Community, and Why They Shouldn't Be
Mosaicmagazine.com 6d 1 tweets
Over 100,000 American children in foster care are waiting to be adopted. Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox Jews can help.
The power of the two-parent home is not a myth
Fordham Institute - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute 7d 2 tweets
Among several disturbing elements of Christina Cross's New York Times op-ed, “The Myth of the Two-Parent Home,” is the author’s seeming belief that unless growing up with married parents has the same effect on black children as on white youngsters,...
NEW AEI PODCAST: Are You Kidding Me? | American Enterprise Institute
American Enterprise Institute - AEI 7d 1 tweets
Join AEI's Naomi Schaefer Riley and Ian Rowe as they introduce AEI's newest podcast on child welfare and education, and other topics: "Are You Kidding Me?"
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Naomi Schaefer Riley Guess what! and I have a a new podcast called Are You Kidding Me? It's about child welfare and education. We have a bunch of episodes up already! via 7d
The Decline of Social Trust in America
Eventbrite 17d 1 tweets
An event hosted by Baylor in Washington's Robert P. George Initiative on Faith, Ethics, and Public Policy.
Team Trump’s big blow to the college cartel
New York Post 17d 3 tweets
Elite private colleges across the country now sport price tags in the $75,000 per year range, an amount beyond the reach of all but the most affluent families. Traditionally, they have held all the…
Naomi Schaefer Riley How is the college process like holiday shopping? via -institute 17d
Reimagining the Public University
Nationalaffairs.com 18d 1 tweets
In recent years, public universities have faced a troubling question: Can they remain financially solvent while serving their own residents at the low tuition rates that were common several decades ago? In other words, can they have their cake and...
Naomi Schaefer Riley The public university model has come apart. Here's what we can do to save it. My new essay with James Piereson. via -institute 18d
Child Welfare in Crisis
City Journal 19d 2 tweets
10 Blocks podcast
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Naomi Schaefer Riley Check out my podcast with editor Brian Anderson discussing some great faith-based foster care nonprofits and what we've learned from the Zymere Perkins trial. 19d
How liberals are allowing anti-Semitism to flourish
New York Post 22d 8 tweets
Anti-Semitic attacks continue to shake our city and state. Last week, eight attacks — including four in just in 48 hours — sent a familiar shockwave rippling through the Jewish community. Then Satu…
News Briefs
Harvard Magazine 24d 1 tweets
Sexual-misconduct survey results, and the athletics director to retire
Naomi Schaefer Riley Huh. I guess all that re-education, not to mention going after Final Clubs, doesn't seem to have fixed the problem. via 24d
Family-Forward Conservatism Could Be the Future
National Review 33d 4 tweets
The Bennet-Romney child benefit offers a path forward for reformers seeking to respond to today’s policy crises.
Pride and Prejudice at Fieldston
Tablet Magazine - Tablet Magazine 33d 16 tweets
On Thursday, Nov. 21, a week before Thanksgiving, 500 high school students settled into their seats in the auditorium of the Fieldston School’s main campus, which sprawls over 18 leafy, manicured acres in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, to learn...
Unhappy Women in Modern, Egalitarian Marriages: A Review of “A Marriage Story”
Institute for Family Studies 35d 3 tweets
In the new movie, “A Marriage Story” (which came out on Netflix recently), it is the lawyers who seem responsible for the hostility between the divorcing Nicole (played by Scarlet Johansson) and Charlie (played by Adam Driver). These well-paid...
Naomi Schaefer Riley Unhappy Women in Modern, Egalitarian Marriages: A Review of “A Marriage Story” | Institute for Family Studies 35d
When 6th graders can access rape porn on their smartphones, school becomes toxic
Dallas News 39d 1 tweets
On a recent Sunday afternoon, my daughter and I were driving to the grocery store when she said from the back seat, “I’m having this weird feeling. It’s...
Michelle Obama Is Racially Insensitive?
Jason Riley - WSJ 40d 2 tweets
She and Pete Buttigieg come under attack from progressives for expressing common-sense views.
Brooke Shannon on Waiting to Introduce the Smartphone: 5 Questions with Family Studies
Institute for Family Studies 40d 2 tweets
Wait Until 8th is the brainchild of concerned mother, Brooke Shannon, who created a simple pledge to give parents a way to support each other in pushing back against the overwhelming cultural pressure to introduce the smartphone at younger and...
How to raise a reader: A book event with Pamela Paul
American Enterprise Institute - AEI 45d 2 tweets
Please join New York Times Book Review Editor Pamela Paul and AEI Resident Fellow Naomi Schaefer Riley for a conversation on what parents, educators, grandparents, and other caregivers can do to raise a generation to become lifelong readers.
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Naomi Schaefer Riley I know that many of you with super-smart, very hardworking kids are still wondering why your children don't actually ENJOY reading. Please come on Monday to find out why and what you can do to change it. 45d
Naomi Schaefer Riley News you can use: Some great tips from our conversation with yesterday on How to Raise a Reader. You can watch here 41d
Foster family who raised slain 5-year-old explains how system repeatedly failed him
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls Tribune 46d 1 tweets
A foster family who raised a 5-year-old explains how system repeatedly failed him, resulting in his death.