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Tom Matlack
Venture capitalist-turned-writer 
10 Things We Should Be Talking About Instead of Celebrity Rehab
Originally Published at The Good Men Project
To Err Is Human
 We live in a country that glories in other people's failures. We demand perfection of our movie stars,athletes, politicians, and business leaders. When they turn out to be human, we hammer them for it.Reveling in the demise of others is the sum total of today's news industry.Here's a news flash: We all make mistakes--sometimes huge, dumb, and devastating ones. I certainly have. To
 
me the real question is, what happens after you make that horrible mistake?Rather than taking so much pleasure in others' failings, shouldn't we be rooting for them to get better as menand women, fundamentally changing themselves in ways that show they will not do the same thing again? Iam a big believer in the possibility of redemption. The true beauty of humanity isn't in being perfect but inmaking mistakes ... and then waking up from our stupor and doing something about it. After getting thrown out the house some 15 years ago for being a drunk and a cheat, my now-deceasedgrandmother--a Quaker woman of great strength of character--told me, "It's not how you fall in life; it's how  you pick yourself that counts."
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The Human Cost of War
 
 All returning soldiers have stress psychological stress injuries; it is just a matter of degree. There's no bright-line test for who has PTSD and who does not. The longer-term impacts of the brain damage fromrepeated head trauma are just now being understood. There have been 2.2 million soldiers in combat inIraq and Afghanistan. The RAND Institute believes 20 percent have suffered brain injury. While thoseinjuries vary in severity, research atHome Base (a joint venture between Massachusetts General Hospital and the Red Sox Foundation) shows that over time, those injuries---which affect roughly 500,000 American veterans---will become much more acute.
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The New York Times
 Vanishing Dads
 According to the U.S. Census, in 2006, 26 percent of American children live in single-parent homes (22percent of white children and 48 percent of black children).Nearly 84 percent of custodial parents where mothers. Put another way, 17.8 million children are growing up without their fathers.
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