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Do We Love Our Children Too Much—Or Not Enough?

Do We Love Our Children Too Much—Or Not Enough?
A coach watches children practice their baseball skills at the Nationals Youth Baseball Academy in Washington on May 7, 2018. Katharyn Gillam/AFP via Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Headlines can only be so long, so let me place this article’s headline in a particular context: When one of our children receives a low grade or a bad report from a teacher, whose side do you take? Do you take the teacher’s report seriously or do you “know” that the problem is with the teacher and not your child?

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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