Our son is eight minutes older than our daughter–every girl should have a big brother and so the age interval issue doesn’t apply.

Our granddaughters are two years apart and vastly different in interests, skills, and world views, thus requiring different kinds of attention.

Not sure it’s the age-interval thing unless the parents manage it in a pretty counterproductive manner.

I also had the thought that perhaps the influence was totally accidental and basically benign. For example, when one or more siblings came along, the older child/children were, or felt they were, put at lower status in regard to the level of parental attention they had previously experienced.
Even if the parents try to be, or believe they are being, equally loving to all of their children, the child may not feel that way.

It’s a mark of how vile these laws are that the only dissent was Justice Jackson.

— neo

Possibly, but I consider it much more likely that it’s the result of horse-trading. The liberal Justices traded their support on this for the other Justices acquiescence on something. Jackson could either be too stubborn/stupid/whatever to go along or she might be allowed to ‘vote her conscience’ for PR purposes.

“ Americans are spending record amounts of money on mental health treatment”

It doesn’t seem to be helping.

I think that has several reasons.

One of them (by no means the only one) it that a considerable percentage of what is being called ‘mental illness’ is in fact simply internalized unrealistic expectations about life. People have been conditioned to expect certain things, from relationships, from the opposite sex, from employers and work/careers, from life in general, that are just not practical/realistic. They then ask themselves what’s wrong with them that they can’t be happy.

No therapy or treatment will alter this except adjusting expectations into line with reality, and that hurts. It probably hurts worse the older you get, if you don’t make the adjustments in childhood/teenage/early 20s, because it means admitting that you’ve wasted a lot of time and energy (both of which each person has a finite supply of) in pursuit of impossibility, and probably in so doing missed out on real opportunities and real happiness that you could have had.

It’s a classic ‘sunk cost fallacy’ but it makes it hard to change.

I don’t know the specifics of the FL law, but one distinction would be state vs private universities. If the state is funding the university it has a right, presumably, to constrain how professors teach. Maybe not for private universities, except to the extent they get state funding.

remember it became with acceptance of a disorder, but it graduated to compulsion, ‘bake the cake’ with the codicil, that if you refuse, they will remove your children from you, because you are unperson, this is true even in some corners of otherwise red texas,

so we are talking about changing behavior, which leftist have no qualms about, see the regretable and tragic circumstances of 2020-1, re a certain reprobate who became a symbol, also certain non sensical therapeutc practices,

Here’s the decision: “ Held: Colorado’s law banning conversion therapy, as applied to Ms. Chiles’s talk therapy, regulates speech based on viewpoint, and the lower courts erred by failing to apply sufficiently rigorous First Amendment scrutiny.”

Maybe CHILES could be even more easily applied in education. Here in MN, we are entering an era where teachers are forced to indoctrinate children into the leftist revolutionary mindset. Doesn’t that go against CHILES?