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Betsy Hart is a nationally syndicated columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service. Her column on cultural, family and political issues, "From the Heart," is distributed each week to hundreds of newspapers across the country. It appears each week in Chicago in the Chicago Sun-Times.

Betsy's first book, It Takes a Parent: How the Culture of Pushover Parenting is Hurting our Kids--and What to do About It, was released in September, 2005, and was a top seller for its publisher, Putnam Books. It was endorsed by Bill Bennett, Laura Ingraham, Kate O'Beirne, Dr. Laura Schlessinger and many other leading public figures, and received tremendous media attention and praise. Echoing the acclaim, Sean Hannity said of It Takes a Parent when Betsy Hart appeared on the FOX News Channel's "Hannity and Colmes" show to discuss it, "I love this book!"

It Takes a Parent will be released in paperback August, 2006. Betsy is already at work on her next book, Let's Look at Things a Little Differently.

Betsy Hart is a frequent guest on television and radio. She often appears on FOX News Channel and CNN offering her insights on the news events of the day, and she's a regular guest-host on Chicago's Christian talk radio station, WYLL AM 1160.

Betsy was a regular host on ABC's long-running hit show "Politically Incorrect," whose host Bill Maher told his television audience of her, "she is one of our favorites here on the show." Betsy Hart appeared some twenty times on the program with stars like Ben Affleck, Alec Baldwin, Rob Lowe and Ted Dansen.

Arcticles about Betsy have appeared in the Washington Times, Maclean's, the Ladies Home Journal and other publications. And in an appearance on the "Oprah Winfrey Show," Betsy was featured as one of America's top five women columnists.

Previously, Betsy Hart served on the White House staff press office under President Reagan.

Betsy is raising her four young children in Western Springs, Illinois.