Daddy Dialectic

I am spending today at Design 4 Resilience at the Berkeley Hub (watch the livestreaming here )—and so I’m thinking a lot about resilience. ...

This morning I attended part of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board meeting, where they were considering a proposal to ...

Here's a little video my friend Axel put together about our "Bees and Butterflies" group, which involved a group of almost 20 ...

This is the edited transcript of a May 7 talk I gave to the nurses of UC Berkeley Health Services on surviving compassion fatigue. It occurs...

My grandfather died this week. The following is adapted from the first chapter of The Daddy Shift, for which I had interviewed him . My gre...

The other day I decided that I have a favorite playground. After a six-month study of a dozen neighborhood parks, in which the research subj...

It's Thursday and the news alert pops into my email: California Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage . I think, "I'll have to b...

It was about one o'clock in the afternoon, and Spot and I were on the second floor of the Unitarian Church, in a sunny room full of toys...

Somehow, at some point, I have become a slob. My wife and I have debated the stages of the metamorphosis. It correlates strongly, though not...

Liko and Shelly are both ill and they both go to bed early. I tuck them in, do the dishes, pick up his room. Now what? It's only 8:45 an...

Former Daddy Dialectic blogger Chip (who is now retired from blogging, alas) wrote a number of posts on raising kids without religion --post...

Marjorie Taylor is a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and an expert on imaginary friends. She read my August 27 post on ...

Reports the Washington Post : A just-published study of birds reports new insights into the evolution of altruistic behavior. It suggests th...

This photo depicts the J. Bates home in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the late 1800s. Note the size of the family and the size of the porch they...

If we were to grab a coffee together, you probably wouldn't guess that I'm going crazy. You might not even suspect that you're t...

I am in the process of interviewing Bay Area families for a series of writing projects on non-traditional families, collected as the "2...

You probably already have a gut sense of what the social science buzzword ' social capital ' means. Warren Buffet has financial capi...

I am in the process of interviewing Bay Area families for a series of writing projects on stay-at-home fathers and non-traditional families,...

Stephanie Coontz is a professor of history at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and Director of Research and Public Educati...