Mark Thomas Lickona is a screenwriter, critic, filmmaker and small-scale organic farmer residing in Los Angeles.
Anybody who cares about the healthy sexual and character development of children should read the report, Teens and Pornography issued earlier this year by the organization Common Sense Media. The report was based on a representative national survey of 1,300 teenagers ages 13 to 17. 73 percent of the respondents (75 percent of boys and 70 percent of girls) said they had watched online pornography. The average age they started was 12. Many began younger.
Date posted: 2023-06-17
Helping your child develop virtues is far more effective than simply reacting to misbehaviour with punitive measures.
Date posted: 2022-11-09
Studies show authority and love are both crucial.
Date posted: 2020-07-06
Take advantage of this time to enrich family life and reach out to others.
Date posted: 2020-05-17
Following the Supreme Court's majority decision in June to legalise same-sex marriage in the United States, New York Times columnist David Brooks appealed to "conservatives" to stop fighting a losing battle over sexual morality. A psychologist and educator responds to David Brooks' plea to quit.
Date posted: 2015-08-19
Who is to blame for the moral ignorance of young adults, and what is to be done?
Date posted: 2012-03-02
We can be grateful to Christopher Smith and his colleagues for Lost in Transition's wake-up call to take a hard look at what is happening to our young and, by implication, to modern society. But it's important to ask: How can we be confident that the portrait Smith paints, based on interviews with 230 18-23-year-olds, is an accurate picture of this age group in general?
Date posted: 2012-03-02
What's the matter with today's emerging adults? This is the first of three articles in an extended review of the recently published book, Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood, by University of Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith and colleagues. The reviewer, Thomas Lickona, is a developmental psychologist and professor of education at the State University of New York at Cortland. Youth hold up a mirror to society; in it, we see ourselves. What is the moral condition of our young adults, and what does that tell us about contemporary culture?
Date posted: 2012-03-02
A sweet message for grown-up children of divorced couples.
Date posted: 2011-07-27