What We Tell Children About Jihadists

Appeared in The Oregonian, December 1, 2010.

My children struggle to parse how they, who intend no harm to anyone, can belong to a group that arouses such hatred. They begin that same journey that is difficult for adults, but gargantuan to a child’s less formed mind: to make meaning out of evil—others as well as our own. How does it get so big and destructive?

Read What We Tell Children About Jihadists.