Jessica LaShawn said she was surprised when a date asked her about her credit score. “It was as if the music stopped,” she said. By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG Published: December 25, 2012 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/business/even-cupid-wants-to-know-your-credit-score.html?_r=0#comments As she nibbled on strawberry shortcake, Jessica LaShawn, a flight attendant from Chicago, tried not to get ahead of herself and…
Read moreGwen Stephani on how motherhood is ‘not what you think it’s going to be’
From her new Vogue interview: “Getting to the studio and not being able to make it happen, but missing out on being at home, missing out on putting the kids down. What’s more important? I felt so guilty,” she tells the magazine. “‘I am letting everyone down in the studio right now; I’m letting down…
Read moreWomen Can Be Abusers Too
“Things started out pretty good the first couple of years. Then, she slowly changed. She always had a temper, but then we got into some money problems, and it got worse. She would get mad, and it would escalate all out of proportion. She’d start hitting. She’d slap at my face, and then keep slapping and try to scratch me. I’d…
Read moreThe Real, Complex Connection Between Single-Parent Families and Crime – The Atlantic
In a recent post, “Single Moms Can’t be Scapegoated for the Crime Rate Anymore,” Philip Cohen tries to correct what he sees as an injustice in the way the United States’ crime rate is discussed. He writes that many pundits believed the crime wave of the late 1980s and early ’90s was caused by an…
Read moreThe new ‘new normal’
Men who are fighting to continue to stay in their children’s lives and winning is going to be the norm. Once fathers see other men fighting a court system that was biased towards mothers for decades and winning, the games couples play while dealing with custody issues will quickly come to an end. I found…
Read moreContradictions
MURPHY: Rojas believes that more than men, women need and want the security of marriage and children; and that by pursuing the same career paths as men, they’re actually hurting their prospects for the future. This is what he says of his brightest female law students. ROJAS: You can imagine that she’s going to be…
Read moreKramer.com vs. Kramer.com
By PAMELA PAUL Published: November 23, 2012 New York Times MOST divorced couples would probably prefer not to see each other. Ever again. But when you share custody of your children, you have to assume a certain amount of face-to-face time amid the endless back-and-forthing. Think of the clashing summer vacation plans, the who-goes-to-Lucy’s-birthday-party, the “Max…
Read moreMen (and Women) Behaving Badly
This sums up everything I have been thinking and reading over the past couple of years. It discusses radical feminism, why we marry later in life or not at all, the reasons why men choose not to marry at all, the conflicts modern women have, and how all of this affects our society. I like…
Read moreThe independent woman (and other lies)
Article from: Esquire Article date: February 1, 1997 Author: Roiphe, Katie (Katie Roiphe, born 1968, is an American author, journalist and feminist. She is best-known as the author of the non-fiction examination The Morning After: Fear, Sex and Feminism (1994). Rophie grew up in New York City, daughter of noted feminist Anne Roiphe. She attended…
Read moreThe Lunchbox
I saw these lunch boxes at the Brooklyn Children’s museum recently. It took me back to when I was a kid. Do you remember any of these? Do you still have one tucked away somewhere?
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