Occupation: Author Birth: August 31, 1944
Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families..
The idea that academics should remain ''above the fray'' only gives ideologues license to misuse our work..
Women are told that we can have the most exciting, glamorous, demanding, rewarding careers ever but we also have to be constantly sexy and sexually i….
The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits, at the same time made them primari….
There is no going back to a time when most women will feel compelled to enter or stay in a bad marriage just for economic security or social respecta….
Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulner….
A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first marriage picking up….
There is a lack of collective support or social support for working people in America. We're told, "You can be, as an individual, anything you want t….
Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to p….
Hollywood overstates both the romance of marriage and the prevalence of divorce. Celebrities have divorce rates that are atypical and higher than mos….
Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 perce….
Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary..
The benefits of feminism have been unequally distributed, because the move toward gender equality and gender neutrality has been countered to a large….
We urgently need a debate about the best ways of supporting families in modern America, without blinders that prevent us from seeing the full extent ….
In industrial countries where male privilege is still firmly entrenched - in Spain, Italy, Japan, and South Korea, for example - women are delaying m….
Increasingly, men are realizing exactly that - that having an educated, economically independent partner reduces the pressure on them to be the sole ….
For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrub….
When parents are educated about how not to involve children in their conflicts and co-parent amicably, a lot of the ill effects of divorce can be all….
A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has left an extraordin….
I think that divorce is a vital escape hatch for people stuck in marriage and it is not a sentence of doom either for adults or children. The communi….
The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage..