Eve Tushnet

on his recent study, which seems relevant to several posts here in the past few months: Studies on faith-based campuses are beginning to offer a glimpse into the real experience of sexual minority students in these unique settings. This study adds to this growing body of information by surveying . . . . Continue Reading »

India Ink blog: After decades of fixing arranged marriages for their children, Indian parents are taking on a new challenge: trying to orchestrate their kids’ love marriages. A new generation of young Indian professionals has refused to follow the arranged-marriage route, with its emphasis on . . . . Continue Reading »

in the Washington Post : . . . It’s hard to overstate the breakdown of marriage and the rise of single-parent families. Consider out-of-wedlock births . In 1980, about 18 percent of births were to unmarried women; by 2009, the proportion was 41 percent. Among whites, the increase was from 11 . . . . Continue Reading »

at Forbes: In the wake of a very good story about American day care by The New Republic ‘s Jonathan Cohn , the liberal blogosphere is abuzz with ideas about improving day care for Americans. And as is required (I think it’s in the Constitution somewhere), any American left-of-center . . . . Continue Reading »

at Slate: ...It turns out I was not—am not—alone. A March 2012 Purdue University study suggests that between 18 and 26 percent of adoptive mothers struggle with post-adoption depression, brought on by extreme fatigue, unrealistic expectations of parenthood or a lack of community support. . . . . Continue Reading »

reports: Children are going through puberty at an increasingly early age, and the changes to their bodies are also affecting their mental health, new research says. Biological changes are happening earlier in children around the world - in 1860, the average age for European girls to develop breasts . . . . Continue Reading »

reports: Nearly one in five births to U.S. teens ages 15-19 is not a first child, says a federal report out today. Of the 365,000 teens who gave birth in 2010, almost 67,000 (18.3%) have had at least one child before, according to the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. . . . . Continue Reading »

this point about social and parental pressure is really important: I say this as someone who married late, and since I wouldn’t want to have married anyone except my husband, I’m glad I waited.  But as a general rule, you should err on the side of marrying early.  By which I . . . . Continue Reading »

...In a word, alcohol is what protected me from growing up. That seems like such an obvious insight, so simple it borders on the banal, but until that moment I’d never really grasped the idea that growth was something you could choose, that adulthood might be less a chronological state than an . . . . Continue Reading »

crunches numbers: ...And if you dig into the footnotes in the Pew study linked by Frum’s column, which seems to show the percentage of fathers living with their children stabilizing in the 2000s, it looks like “father” is being defined to include any male adult whose live-in . . . . Continue Reading »