There Are No Children Here There Are No Children Here There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America is a 1992 biography by Alex Kotlowitz that describes the experiences of two brothers growing up in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes. It won the Carl Sandburg award. The Rivers brothers, like many in the Henry Horner Homes, live with their mother, LaJoe. The boys' father, Paul, drifts in and out of the apartment, however his income mostly supports his drug habit and alcoholism. Together, they have eight children, their first being born when LaJoe was 14. LaShawn and Weasel
How Are We to Live? proposes five practical ethical rules based on a computer simulation of the Prisoner's Dilemma. He draws on the Golden Rule, and explains how the broad cross-cultural support for it gives it a central role in ethics. Singer elaborates on the reasons for behaving ethically and how they apply on actual everyday life. Singer discusses various philosophical perspectives on ethics, including Christian and Kantian ones. The book asserts that "In a society in which the narrow pursuit of material self-interest is the norm, the shift to an ethical stance is more radical than many people realize." Singer attempts to show how