A great piece in Slate from Alan E. Kazdin and Carlo Rotella
You work and work to provide for your kids, and that puts you under a lot of stress. Job insecurity, maybe some mortgage problems, and other common afflictions of the times only increase the pressure. You find yourself taking it out on your family—the kids, your spouse, the cat, any unfortunate who gets in your way. When you’re home and not obsessively checking your e-mail, you lose your temper, you snap and yell and brood, you run alternately too hot (angry and aggressive, spoiling for a fight) and too cold (withdrawn and distant, a forbidding stone-face). You’ll admit that you’re hard to be around, but look, life is tough and you’re knocking yourself out without much in the way of thanks or respite to make enough money to feed and house the kids, and that’s what matters most, right? link to read more
Debbie Phillips died of cervical cancer at home in the early hours of Feb 11, 2010. This beautiful tribute was made by her daughter Sarah, it reminds us that life is precious, isn’t always fair and sometimes goes by all too fast.
The Debbie Phillips Cervical Cancer Research Fund will raise money for the UCL Cancer Institute Research Trust. For further information on the work of the UCL Cancer Institute, please go to www.ucl.ac.uk
The presumption that children need both a mother and a father is widespread. It has been used by proponents of Proposition 8 to argue against same-sex marriage and to uphold a ban on same-sex adoption.
On the other end of the political spectrum, Barack Obama endorsed the vital role of fathers in a 2008 speech: “Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation.”
The lead article in the February issue of Journal of Marriage and Family challenges the idea that “fatherless” children are necessarily at a disadvantage or that men provide a different, indispensable set of parenting skills than women. [continue reading…]
A great piece in Slate from Alan E. Kazdin and Carlo Rotella
