Word: paternalisme
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Norplant, then, presents us with a chance to finally break the vicious cycle of poverty, but at the cost of perhaps infringing upon fundamental rights and raising the issue of eugenics. It is paternalism at its most extreme.
Exclusion from the priesthood may seem humiliating, a source of suffering to women who feel a calling. But Catholic theology exalts humility as a virtue and teaches that men and women can find redemption through suffering. Bernadette Counihan, a Franciscan nun in Iowa, believes that Christian truth is at stake...
The irony was that liberalism, which sought to heal the injuries of class, should itself fall victim to class warfare -- to the resentment of the blue- collar and lower-middle classes against those they saw as the professional- class purveyors of paternalism. White Southerners and Northern ethnics, once Democratic stalwarts...
THE PATERNALISM of those who wish to engineer diversity in the name of a more cohesive and integrated College community thus backfires. Instead of dorms full of satisfied students who socialize with large numbers of diverse peers, houses are becoming more and more merely places to sleep and eat.
But there is more to this movement than budget trimming. Many states are attaching strings to welfare benefits, in an attempt to modify behavior, provide job training and prod recipients into the labor force through what is known as "workfare" programs. New York University professor Lawrence Mead, a conservative advocate...