Month: January 2015

There is a difference between wallowing and duly reflecting on your pain following a marital or other breakup. The former strategy -- if, indeed, wallowing qualifies as a game plan -- might actually feel good for awhile as a complete letting-go into self-pity and...

Looking back from future decades, it would certainly be an understatement to say that gay marriage was the subject matter of only a muted and second-tier national debate in earlier years of the 21st century.In fact, it is hard to identify another issue presently that...

We recently noted the great dependence that researchers, demographers, policy makers, social program administrators and others place on empirical data when trying to form solid conclusions about the American family. Our January 5 blog post queried what the result --...

What exactly is encompassed within the term “American family?” In most people’s minds, does that readily conjure up an image of a never-divorced mom and dad, with one or more kids in tow?Although it certainly might have at one time, people throughout...