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Doctors can cause injury to intact boys during well-child visits. What you should know.

 Letter from the Editor, Kindred Summer Issue 2024 What We Did This Summer at Kindred  READ THIS ISSUE IN YOUR BROWN HERE SUBSCRIBE TO KINDRED DONATE Through PayPal Giving or Venmo Charities at @kindredworld Visit our DONATE PAGE to discover our many initiatives and projects, as well as creative ways, including stock transfers, to support […]

I love men. Maybe because I’m a tomboy and can get in sync with male energy. Or maybe because I grew up with brothers. Or maybe because I had a special bond with my father. In any case I am worried about them, especially about boys. Their wellbeing has been noticeably deteriorating for decades. All […]

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ― J. Krishnamurti

Introduction For too long the staid rules about what attachment is and is not have been the go-to diagnostics for psychologists. The securely attached-poorly attached spectrum is considered an absolute science. In truth, hegemonic attachment theory negates, ignores and discounts both indigenous and matriversal worldviews. This excludes those of us who commune with the more […]

Kindred World is proud to announce the launch of the Worldview Literacy Project, a self-directed or community learning program exploring rebalancing life on earth with worldview literacy. The WLP features the Worldview Chart by internationally renown Indigenous studies scholar, Four Arrows, as well as instructions for how to participate in a 90-day engagement with the […]

The next time you hear someone argue that humans are like chimpanzees, with hierarchical male domination, tell them they are a few million years behind the story. Sarah Hrdy opened her book Mothers and Others by asking the reader to imagine human passengers on a plane replaced by chimpanzees. Instead of cooperation and toleration of close contact, bumping, and […]

A Kindred Interview and Panel Discussion with Disabled Children and Family Caregivers Advocate, Andrea Dole

Authoritarianism is on the rise and support for democracy on the wane. Why?

When I started out as a middle-school Spanish teacher at a prep school, I attempted to organize democratic climates in my classes. We discussed what rules students preferred. I negotiated within the bounds available. This was a social contract orientation, Stage 5 of Lawrence Kohlberg’s moral judgment scheme. My knowledge of Kohlberg’s theory came later […]