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...sense not to answer the question. There's an unsettling parenting-as-performance aspect to this genre, an effort to elbow one's way into the baby photos. Look, sweetie! Here's me putting you into your Sex Pistols onesie! Here's me making your first mix CD! Once, it was understood that raising kids was about subordinating yourself, recognizing that, as least as far as Darwin and the gene pool were concerned, you were no longer the star. This is not to say the hipster writers are bad parents--or writers; their work can be wise and moving...
ENTERED REHAB. Gavin Newsom, 39, popular San Francisco mayor who became a national lightning rod in 2004 when he "legalized" same-sex marriage and presided over dozens of weddings before the state supreme court voided the unions; in the wake of reports that he had had an affair with the wife of one of his aides and his admission of alcohol abuse; in San Francisco. Though some officials called for his resignation, many declared Newsom--who is being treated as an outpatient--courageous and offered support, albeit cautiously. One member of the city's board of supervisors said...
Just in time for our annual ritualistic exchange of chocolates for sex on Feb. 14, the New York Times brings this lonely news: 51% OF WOMEN ARE NOW LIVING WITHOUT SPOUSE. The story has been thoroughly blogged, and readers have been dutifully reminded of all the usual statistics suggesting that marriage is threatened in the U.S., an abiding worry of some social commentators at least since...
DePaulo dismantles a few other claims of the pro-marriage lobby. For instance, it's true that currently married people report a better sex life than single people, but men who are divorced and living with a new girlfriend report even better sex. Also, according to a 2004 paper from the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, those marrying for the first time tend to report better health--but surprisingly, the period around divorce is also associated with improved health for those breaking up. In short, we feel better when we can pair off and then dissolve those pairings when...
...being on drugs." And is it? No-at least it needn't be. Specialists in psychotherapy, or talking therapy, say Braydle's style was not only uncommon and wrongheaded but amounts to malpractice. The code of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists forbids not only sex with patients but "any behavior which might be reasonably interpreted by a patient as demeaning or as a sexual advance." Psychiatry will never rid itself entirely of practitioners who use talking therapy to satisfy voyeuristic urges, but it doesn't want to lose the wheat with the chaff. Indeed, the metaphorical...