Social Life

The cover story of TIME magazine includes this egregious and scientifically indefensible statement: "On every single significant outcome related to short-tem well-being and long-term success, children from intact, two-parent families outperform those from single-parent households...if you can measure it, a sociologist has; and in all cases, the kids living with both parents drastically outperform the others."

Actually, they don't.

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Please say no, you're not a Delicate Flower; please tell me you're not a DF.

Because she's one kind of broad I just can't stand.

You know the one I'm describing here, right? She the princess of pain; she's the queen of whine and roses, except the roses always have too many thorns. Read More

Equality can't be engineered in a Petri dish. Instead of pursuing over-the-top-risky biology experiments, let's work for equal access to existing means of family building, and push for legal protections and full social acceptance for gay parents and children. Read More

Here are two wonderful opportunities to tell mental health professionals, and an author of an advice book, what people need to know about the real lives of singles. What do friends, relatives, and counselors get right in their beliefs and in their interactions with you, and what do they still not understand? Share your experiences, and you just may see them reflected in a new family counseling textbook and in a self-help book.

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Some months back, PT bloggers were asked to comment on their relationship with money, with a special focus on any quirks we have. This is a more personal perspective than many of us take in our blogs, but still interesting and worthwhile. I hope you like it. Read More

About 15 years ago I began to notice a sweet solid convergence between the Tao, Darwinism and the Serenity prayer that has guided both my behavior and my research ever since.  Here are some more practical variations on the serenity prayer, second in a series of four. Read More

When we take a second look at what and who we ordinarily overlook, we discover some very interesting things about ourselves. Read More

Think Different. Be an Army of One. Is this stuff even possible? Scientific findings suggest that far from being completely autonomous individuals, people are fundamentally connected to others in ways they do not even realize. Read More

Loh embraces the traditionalists' view that divorce hurts, then turns it upside down. The moral of the story, she suggests, is not the old, boring, bedraggled one: Get married and stay that way - no divorcing! Instead, she says, just skip the marriage.

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