Drawing from 1.7 million Gallup surveys collected between 2008 and 2012, researchers Angus Deaton and Arthur Stone found that parents with children at home age fifteen or younger experience more highs...
IN HIS 2005 COLLECTION of essays Going Sane, Adam Phillips makes a keen observation. Babies may be sweet, babies may be beautiful, babies may be adored, he writes, but they have all the characteristic...
It’s a heady question, how women balance these concerns. Recently, the question has found its way back to the center of a contentious and very emotional debate. If you’re Sheryl Sandberg, the chief op...
Parenting pressures have resculpted our priorities so dramatically that we simply forget. In 1975 couples spent, on average, 12.4 hours alone together per week. By 2000 they spent only nine. What happ...