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Meet the sandwich generation caring for aging parents and young children simultaneously
Being a father changes a man's outlook for the better
Becoming a father also changes a man's body. Both the sexual bond with the mother and the conception of the child appear to reduce a man's testosterone levels, which makes him more cooperative and less ornery and aggressive. According to a new study, "Mother Bodies, Father Bodies: How Parenthood Cha...
Father's Day: a day to celebrate motherhood
Time For Mommy And Daddy
Move over Ward Cleaver: American fathers routinely mimic the roughhousing of male monkeys
Mother Bodies, Father Bodies : How Parenthood Changes Us from the Inside Out
Leading scholars from the natural and social sciences explore what it means to be a mother or a father in the 21st century. They investigate whether mothers and fathers experience parenthood in the same ways. They posit whether parenting is just something some of us do, or does it go deeper? Among t...
Parenthood changes the bodies and minds of men as well as women
What is Parenthood? – With Linda C. McClain
David and Linda have a frank discussion of the political labels and cultural messages that define the struggle over strengthening marriage and families. In the audio podcast, Amy Ziettlow explores with Linda the many facets of her new book and her current work.
What is Parenthood?
Scholars and opinion leaders respond to the themes and debates highlighted in the book What is Parenthood? and give their time and careful attention to pondering today's nuanced models of parenthood from integrative to diverse and everything in between.
Gender and Parenthood : Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives
What is Parenthood? : Contemporary Debates about the Family
California Should Not Pass "Multiple Parents" Bill
There are better ways to protect children without conferring full parental status on three or more people. The doctrine of "equitable estoppel" has been used to prevent adults from shedding responsibility for children they promised to support. More explicit agreements between adults agreeing to shar...
Generosity with Spouse Key to Why Married Parents Happier Than Others, Study Says
The findings are part of the State of Our Unions 2011 report, "When Baby Makes Three – How Parenthood Makes Life Meaningful and How Marriage Makes Parenthood Bearable." It was produced by the National Marriage Project and a partner, the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for...
When Baby Makes Three : How Parenthood Makes Life Meaningful and How Marriage Makes Parenthood Bearable
A Conversation with W. Bradford Wilcox, Director, National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia; Elizabeth Marquardt, Affiliate Scholar, IAV; and David and Amber Lapp, Researchers, IAV, on When Baby Makes Three: How Parenthood Makes Life Meaningful and How Marriage Makes Parenthood Bearabl...
How to Keep Parenthood From Making Your Marriage Miserable
We also found that the impact of parenthood is not negative on outcomes such as marital stability or whether one perceives one's life to have meaning. In fact, married parents — especially women — are significantly more likely to report that their “life has an important purpose,”...
Must parenthood make your marriage miserable?
Today, a growing proportion of young adults in the United States worry that having both a good marriage and a happy family life with children is unattainable. And their worries are mirrored in much of the commentary, television shows, and movies that dwell on relationships and family life in America...
Is parenthood the death of marital happiness?
Sociologists Elizabeth Marquardt and W. Bradford Wilcox find evidence that it doesn't have to be, if couples are willing to live by certain rules... Our report suggests, in contrast, that in today's marriages both wives and husbands benefit when they embrace an ethic of marital generosity that puts ...
One Parent or Five?
A report out today...from the Institute for American Values' Commission on Parenthood's Future, surveys the variety of parenthood set-ups that have emerged in the era of reproductive technology and same-sex coupling. One Parent Or Five tracks them around the world. They range from single mothers by ...