By Rabbi Yisrael Rutman

A wise man once said: “A person has to make up his mind what he wants in life: Children or clean pants.”

In the nation’s capital, people are making up their minds, but while some prefer children, some prefer clean pants.

The Washington Post reported recently on scuffles in Washington D.C.’s gentrified Lincoln Park neighborhood between parents with children and adults without children.

by Rabbi Yisrael Rutman How to raise children is a perennial national discussion. Questions of how to discipline, how to educate, how many children to have and at what stage of life, who to care for them, the extent of parental responsibility, even how much anxiety and guilt to suffer, are debated endlessly in the
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