Daddy Dialectic

“Having it all” has been trending for two weeks, ever since Anne-Marie Slaughter’s blockbuster essay “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All” w...

Today, the Good Men Project published an essay of mine about the lines of privacy in marriage , in which I argue that spouses have both the ...

This coming Sunday the 18th, starting at 2 pm PST / 5 pm EST, I'll be hosting a Firedoglake Book Salon for Naomi Cahn and June Carbone ...

A new study says that parenthood pushes men and women in opposite political directions: "Parenthood seems to heighten the political ...

From the redoubtable Stephanie Coontz and the Council on Contemporary Families : Americans tend to think we are better off than families in...

From Paul Krugman's column in today's New York Times : Not long ago, a young Ohio woman named Trina Bachtel, who was having health ...

Last week, a bill requiring paid sick leave for California workers was approved by a state Assembly committee, and is now going to the Assem...

Harvey Milk was the first openly gay politician "in the history of the planet," to quote Time magazine. He represented my neighbo...

Did you know that half of workers don't have a single paid sick day? There are no state or federal laws that require employers to provid...

Happy New Year! Or is it? For decades, the conventional wisdom has said that we're getting dumber, society is disintegrating, and the wo...

Scene: Dinner at Savor in Noe Valley. I'm eating humus; Liko is eating pasta. Me: Liko, do you want to go to the antiwar protest tomorro...

Naazneen Barma reports : Julianna Sandell Pacheco and Eric Plutzer analyzed the effects of three important teen life transitions—adolescent ...

The Council on Contemporary Families released a new study of how the U.S. ranks in family-friendly work policies . The study found that the ...

Newsflash : “Every piece of remotely responsible research that has been done in the last 20 years on this issue has shown there is no differ...

Recently I was swapping emails with a group of feminist activists I've known for 15 years. We were talking about progressive family poli...

Daddy Dialectic readers have been sending me tips right and left. Here are some hot spots: 1) Alex (in Boston, MA) pointed me to this bluepr...

Yesterday's New York Times contained an interesting piece on paddling in public schools : As views of child-rearing have changed, group...

By Chip -- A few posts back in a comment Justin questioned whether being home full time with our kids is actually "social change wor...

Lately, I have been obsessed with myths. Stories. The mythology of living. The tales we tell to define ourselves, explain our existence, ...

Based on a more or less true story! Characters: Dad#1 is a writer. Dad#2 runs a nonprofit law firm that sues prescription drug companies. Ac...