George Washington University Professor Joan S. Meier! Child Abduction Is Not Liberation!

March 16, 2013

In March 2013, I submitted a response to an editorial published on March 6th by the New York Times.   March, 2013 1 Since February 2011, when a nationally-broadcast, three-part interview appeared on ABC , parents of children kidnapped to Japan have hoped that sympathetic and indignant responses to our aggrieved children’s circumstances might find their way into … More George Washington University Professor Joan S. Meier! Child Abduction Is Not Liberation!

God Only Knows

February 5, 2013

I may not always love you, But long as there are stars above you, You never need to doubt it; I’ll make you so sure about it! God only knows what I’d be without you If you should ever leave me, Though life would still go on, believe me, The world could show nothing to … More God Only Knows

In the Aftermath of Newtown: Moral Panics Over Children and Violence in America and Japan

January 20, 2013

January 20, 2013 Revolutionary Suicide and Other Desperate Measures: Narratives of Youth and Violence from Japan and the United States By Adrienne Carey Hurley It pains me that more people won’t read this book because they may never hear of it. It is richly suggestive and descriptive of the way that frustrated psychological need is disavowed … More In the Aftermath of Newtown: Moral Panics Over Children and Violence in America and Japan