Saturday Link Love: Kids’ Hair, School Segregation, and Religious Daycares

Saturday Link Love is a new feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more the merrier.

Inclusion does not imply full endorsement.

Boundary Setting vs. Tone Policing, on Brute Reason—“When I tell people that I have a very strong preference not to be yelled at or called names, they say, “But isn’t that kind of tone policing?””

Why Don’t You Let Your Kid Cut All Its Hair Off? on Grounded Parents—“It was just months before my sister-in-law’s wedding when I heard a strange and dreaded sound. You know that sound. That strange snick snick snick…”

What Part of No Doesn’t Your Child Understand? on Aha Parenting—“We can’t say yes to everything our child wants. Sometimes we need to say No, for their own good, or for the greater good of the family or community.”

There Is Nothing Accidental About School Segregation, on Slate—“More than 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, most of America’s schools remain segregated.”

Religious day cares get freedom from oversight, with tragic results, on Reveal—“Swarms of police officers surrounded the washed-out brick church as Cardenas pushed his way inside. One woman broke through the fray and approached him.”

Whipped, hit and locked in closets: Life inside some religious day cares, on Reveal—“Workers said Abigail was locked in a pitch-black room by her day care director as punishment for having an asthma attack, according to the officials’ investigation notes.”

Check your privilege and your facts before discussing sex selective abortion, on Dr. Jen Gunter—““He beat me very badly after I had my last girl, I can’t go through that again,” a woman once told me.”

A Roundup of the States Concerned with “Sincerely Held Religious Beliefs”, on Feministing—“It’s been an active few weeks in terms of rolling back LGBT rights and sanctioning discrimination.”

Religious Right Schlafly Group Implodes over Trump Endorsement, on Rachel Maddow—“Rachel Maddow traces the history of Phyllis Schlafly as the linchpin of the cultural right within the Republican Party and describes how Schlafly’s endorsement of Donald Trump has led to a coup attempt within her Eagle Forum organization.” [Video may autoplay]