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In yesterday’s Sunday Styles section of The New York Times, I wrote a profile of Stephanie Dolgoff, author of the forthcoming book, Formerly Hot: Dispatches from Just This Side of Young. The book is hilarious and the author is completely charming. I found the comments about the article to be very interesting — many people […]
I have a new Studied column in this Sunday’s Styles section of the New York Times about relationship woes and men. A new study suggests that young men suffer more when relationships are going poorly. Meanwhile, women care more about whether they’re in a relationship or not, no matter the quality of the bond. What […]
Yesterday I wrote about a new study highlighting potential problems for people who move a lot during childhood. The study raised a lot of interesting questions, some of which it answered statistically, some hypothetically. Does moving during childhood negatively affect people? Do the affects last past childhood, shaping who we are as adults? Do the […]
Lisa Belkin over at the Motherlode blogs about the July/August issue of The Atlantic in her most recent post, calling out my piece as well as Hannah Rosin’s on the state of men and parenthood. Belkin pretty much presents the facts in both stories and weighs in at the end. Many of the comments posted […]
I wrote a brief piece in the current issue of The Atlantic with the rather provocative title, Are Fathers Necessary? that to me, at least, offered a rather prosaic conclusion: Yes, most of us consider fathers to be necessary and value them as such, but the existing research does not bear out any benefits exclusive […]
I realize it’s been an absurdly long time since I’ve posted, so I’m going to offer some explanation and try to at least begin to get caught up. The short explanation is: Three kids! I had a baby last year and between him and my other two children, I am still calibrating what full-time employment […]
I had a fantastic time doing the Brian Lehrer show on our fabulous local NPR station, WNYC, and was thrilled to see that it’s been the most emailed show all week. You can listen to it here. Also, in this month’s issue of Cookie magazine, cover star and very smart mom Amanda Peet talks up […]
I have a story in this week’s Time magazine about the ways in which parents are becoming environmentally active — not just buying green, but also acting green — in important ways. A longer blog on this to come, but the story is here.
Several stories about Parenting, Inc. were published in the last two days, so I thought I’d provide some links. In the Fairfield County Weekly, former Huffington Post editor Jessica Wakeman interviews me here. A fun Q and A, except for a typo substituting “fridge” for “crib,” which makes for an amusing visual conundrum, given the […]
On Slate.com today, Slate’s brilliant movie critic Dana Stevens and I grumpily bash “Baby Mama” on the podcast accompanying Stevens’ deliciously cranky review. We didn’t like it! Alas, and hopes were so high that it would be a glorious send-up of the trials and politics of modern motherhood. The opening sequences, do, however, contain a […]