Psychology Today

Is "trivializing human authority" something good people must do? A look back at those who resisted in Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments.

Do Family Court Judges order children to spend time with high school graduates in hotel rooms, forced to watch Nazi videos, and then have their mothers called Nazis? Yes.

"Parental Alienation Syndrome" is tailor-made to dismiss harm done to children. Advocates for it will not count obvious harms as significant as they push their theory.

We cannot let Judges send innocent children to juvenile detention because of a divorce. The welfare of children cannot be left in the hands of Judges actively hiding their reasoning and judgements from the public. Children deserve something from us. That their imprisonment be kept quiet is not something that benefits them.

I am Mother. I am the 58,000 women a year who have faced your courtroom bias. I am the protective parent fighting for my children. I am the activist affecting legislative change and educating others. And though you steal my voice with your gag order, know that where I am silenced thousands more speak in my place.

Why do the right thing, anyway?

As has been widely reported, Judge Lisa Gorcyca told the children they were in “direct contempt” because “I ordered you to have a healthy relationship with your father.”

Philosopher Dave Schmidtz addresses the value of trees, lions and other animals in a way that can explain why we care so much about the killing of a lion.

Michigan's Judge Lisa Gorcyca had a father's consent to placing his children in the extremely dangerous juvenile detention system over their summer break because they would not speak with him.

Some professors have always been afraid of their students, this pre-dates even women being in classrooms. But why are there so many complaints about this today? Could today's students be as frightening as they say?

What you would say, if you were very being honest, about the role of sex in a life?

Today's young women are somehow obsessed with their own victimhood? Where do ideas like this come from?

Given results in social psychology, should we be very careful of using Facebook passively, lest we too succumb to a decline in affective well-being?

In the case of a teenager who ran away from home to avoid chemotherapy, who was then taken into temporary custody by the state and still had to be restrained in order to undergo surgery, the Supreme Court of Connecticut has upheld an earlier decision made by the state's child welfare agency: the state may force cancer treatment on a minor.