Eve Tushnet

at ABC: When Philip Wiederspan began teaching first-grade at age 25, he was the only male, except for the gym teacher. His former New Jersey college friends would look at him in shock when they learned his profession: “How can you do that? You must have a lot of patience.” “It . . . . Continue Reading »

of “beyond marriage” fame, blogs: Justice Roberts then brought up an issue I have consistently raised in these blog pages and elsewhere.  He called in an “internal inconsistency” that plaintiffs say children of same-sex couples are doing great and so there is no problem . . . . Continue Reading »

at Slate: ...But 58 percent of women who have a high-school degree or some college—women we call “middle Americans” and who make up a majority of young adult women—are now having their first child outside of marriage—a rapid and quite recent development. (Among women . . . . Continue Reading »

via basically my entire Twitter feed, for entirely understandable reasons: RICHMOND — The girls ages 6 to 16 sit in order of size in the drab lobby of the Richmond City Jail, their glittery shoes swinging back and forth. “I don’t like it here,” says Jhaniyika Morman, 6, who . . . . Continue Reading »

reports: The decline of two-parent households may be a significant reason for the divergent fortunes of male workers, whose earnings generally declined in recent decades, and female workers, whose earnings generally increased, a prominent labor economist argues in a new survey of existing research. . . . . Continue Reading »

reports: A couple for more than a decade, Maddison Spenrath and Kyle Eerbeek are, by all accounts, in it for the long haul. The two started dating in high school and, in 2008, moved from Calgary to Vancouver, settling into an apartment in the city’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood. In 2011, they . . . . Continue Reading »

Yahoo News: “In Sickness, Marriage May Not Boost Health”: Marriage is good for the health, but it isn’t so beneficial “in sickness,” new research finds. Previous studies have consistently found that people who are married report better health than people who . . . . Continue Reading »

at Slate: In Sunday’s New York Times, med student and new mom Anna Jesus wrote about having a child in her 20s while still in graduate school. She thought she would wait until after her training to conceive, but a fertility problem appeared when she was in her mid-20s, so she and her husband . . . . Continue Reading »

blogs at Christianity Today: I read Owen Strachan’s recent rant against a Sesame Street episode in which “Baby Bear” is told it’s OK for boys to play with dolls on the same day my six-year-old son took his Matey Anchors doll to school for show and tell. Maybe my reaction . . . . Continue Reading »

at the Huffington Post: Stephanie slips the brown paper sleeve off a Starbucks drink and starts tearing it artfully. A small hut emerges. “My vacation home,” she says wistfully. Stephanie could use a vacation. Her last one was a weekend trip with her ex-boyfriend to the caves in . . . . Continue Reading »