Here’s a great piece by Stephanie Coontz in today’s NY Times correcting recent claims of the imminent disappearance of men from the national economy. This follows on the heels of related excellent points made in the Sunday Times’s review
Here’s a link to my post about READY on the “Motherhood Later than Sooner” site today. The post gives an overview of the issues the new edition addresses.
For your delectation – the quick-change demography of now.
Meant to post this image on August 26th – the 92nd anniversary of the passage of the women’s suffrage amendment to the constitution. Aka Women’s Equality Day. The sash is part of the Ewing collection in the Shuart Women’s Archive at
Today’s New York Times ran a solid defense of the real mom bod (Can a Mom Get a Break?), by a new later mom of three who happens to be the editor at the Hollywood Reporter – and the former
Here’s my post today on Janice D’Arcy’s Washington Post “On Parenting” blog: she asked me to respond to Nona Aronowitz’s WashPo op-ed on second-generation later motherhood and the effects on grand-parenting and elder care (the fallout to the fact that
Here’s a story on CBS Online HealthPop about some of the Common Myths about Having a Child Later in Life – based on data from the new edition of READY, just out this week.