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Mothering reports on an important new study: The best chance of forming a long lasting relationship with an unmarried father and building th...

Like most yahoos with a blog, I gets lots of emails from random people plugging this or that product or resource. I always check them out, ...

I’m reading Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success while at the same time applying to kindergartens for Liko. It’s an interestin...

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...

Liko and I love Gumby, although when was a kid it creeped me out.

I'll be taking the rest of December off from blogging, but just in time for the holidays, I'm posting a revised, updated version my ...

Two brothers were attacked, and one killed, when a SUV full of homophobes saw them walking arm in arm : [Jose] Sucuzhanay (suh-KOO-chen-eye)...

Something really freaking smart from Ta-Nahesi Coates: In the arena of racial progress, I know of only a few more destructive forces, than ...

Good news from bad: The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand a ruling that Virginia must enforce a Vermont court order awarding child-visitation...

'Gays Too Precious To Risk In Combat,' Says General

Via my pal Howie, here's an imperfect but interesting essay in the Seattle Stranger about transracial adoption: It would be easier for ...

Two years ago (!) we at Daddy Dialectic had a very good, substantial discussion about whether kids need religion . (The original post was wr...

This is an interesting dimension of rising rates of male caregiving: The Alzheimer’s Association and the National Alliance for Caregiving e...

Writer Lauren McLaughlin blogs : The November Atlantic has a fantastic article by Hanna Rosin about transgender kids, which I read hungri...

I spent Monday at the “Happiness and Its Causes” conference in San Francisco, which was co-sponsored by my employer, the Greater Good Scien...

Three weeks ago I went to pick up Liko from preschool and found his class gathered outside the school, waiting for the mommies and daddies. ...

The new issue of Greater Good magazine (where I serve as senior editor) is now mostly available online . It focuses on trust. Highlights for...

Last week, three separate people--count 'em, three --said to me, in tones that conveyed irritation, "Why aren't you on Facebook...