tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340503382011-11-15T08:02:07.951-05:00Helping Raise Our Daughters and SonsLinda Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419386137936466388noreply@blogger.comBlogger581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-64586672821108698082010-05-08T20:25:00.002-04:002010-05-08T20:45:26.038-04:00

Sally Jenkins writes a moving article in the Washington Post about the culture of some sports and the athletes who play them. Yeardley Love was murdered by a boy who's temper and bouts with rage were well known to his teammates and friends. But they tried to contain George Huguely rather than alert others that he needed serious help. They were more comfortable staying silent in the face of this

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I expect more substance from the Huffington Post than an article about how Jennifer Aniston lost weight on a baby food diet- ( 14 servings of baby food a day)- It's the next new diet for women after the cleansing juice diet. First clothing is manufactured in size 0 suggesting women disappear and now we are required to regress by eating baby food, all in pursuit of an airbrushed lie.When mothers

Linda Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419386137936466388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-88388589157366203252010-05-06T22:37:00.002-04:002010-05-06T22:53:04.377-04:00

Parents are concerned that their tweens grow up too fast. They dress like adults and are exposed to popular culture 24-7. There definitely is a pseudo sophistication that tweens and teens display today. Yet as they grow they are slow to achieve the life skills that young adults easily attained in past generations. On one hand they act adult and on the other hand they progress to real adulthood

Linda Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419386137936466388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-25027172607529256252010-04-28T21:29:00.002-04:002010-04-28T21:49:24.605-04:00

I remember when Jamie Lee Curtis posed unadorned and without make-up for a magazine shoot. It was both a brave and unusual step for both an actress or anyone being photographed for a national publication. Now she discusses her mother Janet Leigh's obsession with beauty and physical perfection in More Magazine. It makes sense that Jamie Lee Curtis was affected by her mother's need to maintain her

Linda Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419386137936466388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-37121280690250025922010-04-04T18:12:00.003-04:002010-04-04T18:21:29.305-04:00

Cyber bullying has changed the landscape of bullying. Children can no longer escape from the jeers and attacks by other children. The worst part is that many kids won't tell their parents for fear of losing their access to the internet. CyberSafeFamily offers parents good practical advice on how to keep their children safe. This is serious stuff! Victims of bullying are more than five times

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I just watched the following youtube video with Lady Gaga with an adorable 15 year old girl and I can't figure out what to make of this. Is is exploitative? Is it an example of young women asserting their sexuality? Today's teenagers view Madonna as tame- how far will they push the envelope? Parents must be confused. The most important thing for parents is for them to become very cyber savvy.

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There is twice the chance that your son will be suspended as your daughter and three times the chance that he will be expelled.While internationally it is usually the girls who lack the educational opportunities, boys are the ones who are falling behind. Colleges sometimes give special assistance to boys and 64% of the National Honor Society members are girls.One theory is that the world have

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Now everything is pre scheduled and gone are the days when kids could play at their friends' home, leave when they want and walk home. Children don't have the freedom to storm out and run home after a fight, they have to wait until a parent picks them up. The organic nature of socializing is lost when kids depend on adults to tell them when the playdate is over. Now even recess, the last arena

Linda Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419386137936466388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-51990444638946818332010-03-28T10:48:00.003-04:002010-03-28T11:10:13.730-04:00

Obama's health care reform acknowledges what many parents of twentysomethings already know. Our children represent a large percentage of the uninsured. Thirty percent of 19-29 year olds do not have health insurance and 75% receive financial assistance from their parents. Over five years ago when my 21 year old son had surgery at Georgetown Hospital, I asked a nurse why he was in the pediatric ICU

Linda Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419386137936466388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-9764537866529186272010-03-23T19:45:00.005-04:002010-03-23T19:57:01.933-04:00

The Obama health plan requires that 200,000 fast food restaurants display their calorie counts where customers we actually see them. No longer will this information be tucked in hard to find places. It may actually appear on the menu. Do you think this could effect change in the eating habits of the American public? I think it's a great idea-parents can use this information as a teaching tool

Linda Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419386137936466388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-39241769605487916802010-01-11T18:30:00.003-05:002010-01-11T18:43:01.778-05:00

It seems that parents think their children are more active than they are. Can this misperception help many of us feel less guilty about how much time our kids watch TV or go online? If your child thin, then the chance of misjudging is greater. The New York Times blog writes about a recent study or 2000 young students.

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A growing number of teenagers have been dressing to articulate gender identity and sexual orientation, confounding school officials, whose responses have ranged from indifference to applause to bans. In a New York Times article, Jan Hoffman explores how this generation is challenging the gender norms.

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When is the last time you said to your friends or daughter something like, "I love my legs?" You probably can't remember. So often women bond by saying self deprecating remarks about how they fall short in some physical area. Well it's time to end Fat Talk. In a blog by Dara Chadwick, she emphasizes the importance of keeping comments about yourself positive. She also introduces a video by the

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What should we call parents who use their children as objects to seek their own personal gain? The entire ordeal was staged to create publicity for his parents' desire to be on reality TV again.Six-year-old Falcon Heene was told to hide for hours in the rafters of the garage while the country worried about his safety. Falcon and his siblings were told to collude with his parents' abuse of the

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In The New York Times article The Guilt Trip Casserole:The Family Dinner by Jan Hoffman, the writer starts with the following statistic:Teenagers who eat with their families less than three times a week are more likely to turn to alcohol, tobacco and drugs than those who dine with their families five times a week.So, what's a working mother or father with late hours to do? Statistics like these

Linda Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419386137936466388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-61044114811235639882009-09-16T15:03:00.003-04:002009-09-16T15:23:01.955-04:00

Over 50 years ago, the psychologist Carl Rogers said just loving your child isn't enough. He said we had to love our child unconditionally. We've assumed that Rogers was right- but is this at the core of our hyper-parenting, where all the kids get trophies? Can it create entitled children without direction? Journalist Alfie Kohn tackles this question in the New York Times.

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The day finally came and our new book hit the stores. Were are thrilled to have such a large article written by Sharon Jayson in USA TodayWhat's funny is that after writing almost 300 pages on the subject, I found myself searching for a concise sound bite to answer the questions, "What's too close for comfort?"Writing is one thing, but distilling big ideas into little snippets is very hard

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Sorry, I just have to report this insane story. A stranger (Roger Stephens) slapped a 2 year-old on the face after he asked her mother to make her stop crying in Walmart. I'm betting she didn't stop crying!!!!!!!Thank goodness he was taken into custody of the sheriff's Dept. The full story is at www.modermom.com.

Linda Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419386137936466388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-63423396061722176062009-08-31T09:53:00.002-04:002009-08-31T10:02:44.088-04:00

Parents walk a fine line between telling their overweight child how to make better food choices and putting too much emphasis on what he is eating. The word DIET has become a dirty word, yet childhood obesity is a big problem. We all know we're supposed to focus on healthy eating but how do we do that when our child is sneaking snacks?Frank Bruni, in the New York Times, writes about this issue.

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Parents now have less of a generation gap with their kids. Families are less hierarchal and kids don't respect their their elders just because they are older. While their are differences in how each generation embraces technology and how each generation approaches work, they basically feel a strong connection to each other. Sharon Jayson's article in USA Today talks about the harmony between the

Linda Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419386137936466388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-79694440779547995982009-08-18T16:16:00.003-04:002009-08-18T16:26:57.293-04:00

First it's our grown kids and now it's our parents. When do we get to have fun? It is now the norm to have multiple generations living under one roof because the number of parents moving in with their children increased 67% in the seven years between 2000 and 2007. And this is even before last year's collapse of Wall Street. Ian Yarett writes about this in Newsweek. Newsweek.

Linda Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419386137936466388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-86797737995331685792009-08-17T13:11:00.004-04:002009-08-17T13:26:53.153-04:00

In the past parents sat down to breakfast and talked. Yes, maybe the kids were cranky and the parents were tired, but they sat across the table and the most the kids read was the cereal box. Now everyone is plugged in and and checking their facebook or twitter on their phones. The New York Times has an article by Brad Stone about how technology has altered the once predictable rituals at the

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Talk to your daughters about how magazine covers alter the real image of the person photographed. The media uses photoshop to manipulate us and create an unrealistic vision of beauty and perfection. This is very insidious and affects both mothers and daughters. We compare ourselves to what we see and can't possibly meet the impossible standards. Impossible for a living person. Jeannine Stein

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US Dept. Of Agriculture calculates that parents can expect to spend $221,190 — $291,570, for the first 17 years of a child's life who is born in 2009. That’s up from $25,229 in 1960, $69,333 in 1980 and $160,140 in 2000. Lisa Belkin writes about this in The New York Times.

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How children play is very important. When they are young unstructured play is preferable and as they age, activities are beneficial. Play is crucial to their socialization. The Council on Contemporary Families , a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the national conversation about what contemporary families need and how these needs can best be met, has issued a very informative Fact

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The weakened economy has forced even more adult children to move back with their parents. It's common and happens more and more, yet newspapers keep writing about it as if they've discovered it. Times have changed and twentysomethings are in debt. Faced with the choice between subsidizing your adult child or letting her move back in, most parents prefer the later. It just makes sense to both

Linda Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419386137936466388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-34782951039069860772009-08-01T16:54:00.004-04:002009-08-01T17:01:38.744-04:00

Both Amazon and Barnes and Noble have our new book, Too Close For Comfort ready for pre-order now. They both offer the book at a great discount and Barnes and Noble offerd another 5% off for pre-orders.

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Overweight youth with certain socio-environmental, psychological, and behavioral tendencies, such as reading magazine articles about dieting, reporting a lack of family connectedness, placing a high importance on weight, and reporting having participated in unhealthy weight control behaviors, are more likely to suffer from eating disorders. Psydir News reports on The University of Minnesota

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First we have twentysomethings and now we have entire families moving back home. MSNBC has a video about mutligenerational families.

Linda Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419386137936466388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-1112987619179963292009-07-17T12:09:00.003-04:002009-07-17T12:18:41.300-04:00

There are 56 milion grandparents in the Unidted States and a survey at grandparents.com says 60% of grandparents babysit on a regular basis. Many grandparents are helping and even more due to the recession. Kids love it- grandparents say it's worth it even though they are busy and productive themselves. Click on Grandparents.com for a video on this subject.

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It amazes us how many times the journalists write the same articles. But we're not complaining because we get called to talk to them and get our message out once again. The New York Times consulted us and featured our book, Mom Can I Move Back In with You..in their article about how the economic downturn affects twentysomethings.Ron Leiber asks questions that parents pose like, "Should I charge

Linda Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419386137936466388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-89591739861165149062009-07-15T12:48:00.002-04:002009-07-15T22:48:12.807-04:00

Connect With Kids has a video that demonstrates how many girls have a distorted body image. It should come as no surprise, but it's worth repeating that many girls see themselves as heavier than they are. In our new book Too Close For Comfort, we found this subject so important that we include the a chapter on the Impact of Beauty when we discuss the relationship between mothers and adult

Linda Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419386137936466388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-45664926886836778242009-06-29T19:12:00.003-04:002009-06-29T19:20:30.953-04:00

Linda Perlman Gordon is included in the Washingtonian Magazine list of Top Therapists, July, 2009 in the Washington metro area.

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With some many fathers out of work and so many mothers working is the division of labor shifting? While the amount of stay-at-home dads is not large enough to say it's a major trend, fathers are spending more time with their children. The ghost of traditional fathers is hard to ignore, yet many young dads want to participate more in the day to day needs of their young children. Katherine

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Leave it to the apes to explain what we know from our everyday experience. There is a review of Sarah Blaffers Hrdy's new book, Mothers and Others in Salon Magazine. She posits that the reason human females to go on living for so long after menopause is because of the special help and provisions that these old women could provide to younger kin, their younger daughters and nieces who were still

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The era of hyper parenting may be coming to an end. It seems that parenting philosophies are as fickle as fashion. Each generation puts its own stamp on their children. Now it may be that young parents are reacting to all the pressure to create little Einsteins and many parents want to let their kids be kids. Lisa Belkin wrote an article for The New York Times about a new trend in parenting. If

Linda Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419386137936466388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-50936162156659105192009-05-14T17:53:00.005-04:002009-05-14T19:07:04.725-04:00

Women on The Web aka WOWOWOW posts an interview with the author Elizabeth Berg about the relationship between Mothers and Daughters. She is very candid and I loved when she admitted wanting her pregnant daughter to have a girl so she could experience the eye rolling and the slammed doors.Our new book Too Close For Comfort? Questioning the Intimacy of Today's New Mother-Daughter Relationship will

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This s a provocative article in Newsweek written by Leonore Skenazy about how overprotective we are with our children. In generations past children had much more freedom to walk to their friends, make their own plans, and organize their free time. How can they learn self reliance when parents aver so invested on the minute details of their lives? What is the downside for kids when we fail to

Linda Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419386137936466388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-15199644221779892922009-05-03T10:30:00.002-04:002009-05-03T10:41:41.908-04:00

In The Washington Post, Naomi Wolf, discusses how feminism has progressed through the years from Betty Friedan's 1963 bestseller "The Feminine Mystique" to Helen Gurley Brown's "Sex and the Single Girl" and how Michelle Obama's generation represents a synthesis of the two. In the past two versions of independent women emerged. This article helps make sense of the "Sex and the City" woman who

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Parents are so focused on building self esteem in their children that they are in danger of over-praising them. Too many empty compliments can backfire. A recent article in the StarTribune discusses why parents need to avoid over-praising.

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Moms need to be mindful about the messages they give their young daughters about body image. Girls learn their lessons about body image from us. When we are self critical and chronically unhappy with ourselves, we send a poor signal to our daughters. Mothers need to resist the urge to focus on their own weight. Comments like, "I can't eat that, it will land on my hips!" are not lost on our

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There seems to be a natural desire for the news media to make things sound worse than they are. In the New York Times, author Judith Warner discusses how the media likes to make mountains out of molehills. Susan and I know this first hand; when we were interviewed for our book on twentysomethings, producers of TV shows wanted us to talk about how lazy this generation of twenysomethings are. We

Linda Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419386137936466388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-38737736933608904102009-01-28T09:11:00.005-05:002009-01-28T09:27:33.667-05:00

So many parents are anxious when their last child leaves for college only to be surprised when they actually enjoy enjoy it. Researchers at Berkeley tracked marital happiness among 72 women and found that empty nesters scored higher on happiness than women who had children living at home. The difference was attributed to relationship satisfaction. This is good news for all those parents who

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A Grandma or Grandpa by Any Other Name Is Just as OldBoomers Want to Pick What Grandkids Will Call Them: Meet Glamma and PapaDocAnn Zimmerman writes an article in The Wall Street Journal about baby boomers' resistance to being called grandma and grandpa.One of the most vexing issues that aging baby boomers face is deciding what to be called by their grandchildren, lest it make them sound -- and

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When Wounded Vets Come Homewas written by Barry Yeoman, July & August 2008The article says that more troops than ever are surviving the fearsome injuries of war, parents are increasingly being thrust into the role of long-term caregivers. The article is in AARP Magazine.

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Finally an article has been written that tells the truth about parents and their twentysomethings. The Wall Street Journal talks about how the stigma is gone and how parents realize that this is a time of self discovery for their children. It's more widespread in Europe where 60% of twnetysomethings live with their parents. The article is written in The Wall Street Journal by Sue Shellenbarger.

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Boomers' hope: That the kids are all rightParents fret over adult children's pathBy Sharon JaysonUSA TODAY Around the kids, they're nothing if not supportive. But a growing number of baby boomer parents are freaking out inside.They don't want to let on to their adult children that they're getting worried, but these parents are sharing their concerns at work, at the gym, at the grocery store or

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Last Hope in a Weak Economy? Mom and Dad Mar 21 02:33 PM US/EasternBy EMILY FREDRIXAP Business WriterMILWAUKEE (AP) - After being laid off from her job as an events planner at an upscale resort, Jo Ann Bauer struggled financially. She worked at several lower-paying jobs, relocated to a new city and even declared bankruptcy.Then in December, she finally accepted her parents' invitation to move

Linda Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419386137936466388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-38668968585737545442008-02-28T09:32:00.004-05:002008-02-28T09:59:55.031-05:00

Susan and I writing a new book about Mothers and Adult Daughters. Surprisingly little has been written about the relationship between Mothers and their daughters ages 22-35. Most of the books on the shelves deal with adult daughters taking care of aging mothers. Now that boomer moms are healthier and more vital for longer, there is a long time when both mother and daughter enjoy a relationship

Linda Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419386137936466388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-79284863654345544302008-02-08T18:15:00.000-05:002008-01-31T19:00:37.952-05:00

The Boston GlobeELLEN GOODMANChanging the script on teen pregnancyBy Ellen Goodman | January 4, 2008I HATE to release my inner fuddy-duddy this early in the year. So I'll blame this rant on having spent the last afternoon of 2007 in a movie theater with a bag of popcorn and a row of tweens.I went to see "Juno," the indie comedy about a hip and sarcastic 16-year-old who gets pregnant after what

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http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-puberty21jan21,0,892400.story?coll=la-home-middlerightFrom the Los Angeles TimesGirl, you'll be a woman sooner than expectedPuberty is arriving ever younger in American females -- 8 is no longer considered abnormal.By Susan BrinkLos Angeles Times Staff WriterJanuary 21, 2008AT 8 or 9 years old, the typical American schoolgirl is perfecting her cursive

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Study: Colleges shouldn't fret over hands-on parentsBy Mary Beth Marklein, USA TODAYMore bad news for college officials who say too many parents are micromanaging their children's lives: Most college-bound kids seem to welcome the involvement.About three-quarters of this year's college freshmen reported that their parents were involved the "right amount" in a variety of activities related to

Linda Gordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419386137936466388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-8613351597804065022008-01-17T23:03:00.000-05:002008-01-26T21:09:34.929-05:00

This article from The New York Times debates whether today's generation of twentysomethings are self-absorbed. http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/01/17/fashion/17narc190.1.jpgJanuary 17, 2008THE NEW YORK TIMESGeneration Me vs. You RevisitedBy STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOMIN each of the following pairs, respondents are asked to choose the statement with which they agree more:a) “I have a natural

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Two Pregnant 16-Year-Olds in SpotlightBy DAVID CRARYThe Associated Press Thursday, December 20, 2007; 5:21 PMNEW YORK -- In the new hit movie "Juno" and now in real life with Jamie Lynn Spears, 16-year-old girls get pregnant and decide to bear the child rather than opt for abortion. For social conservatives, it's a challenging story line _ they condemn the teen sex but hail the ensuing choice."

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CLICK the following link to the podcast of our interview on The Parent's Perspective.http://www.parentsperspective.org/podcasts/323.mp3Parents of twentysomethings will definitely find it interesting.

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AARP MagazineBy Anne Cassidy, November & December 2006As the cost of living soars, more young adults are turning to their parents for financial help. Sometimes the best help of all is saying noSix months after Sue and Jim Pearson of Washington, Indiana, were married, Sue's daughter, Kimberly, 22, called and said, "I have nowhere else to go. I'm coming home." Kimberly had been living with her

Jon Dosteinnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34050338.post-1157692712127811682006-09-08T01:15:00.001-04:002006-11-14T09:29:47.496-05:00

March 2005by Linda GordonThese days, the journey to adulthood is often more circuitous than it was in previous generations. The markers of adulthood that were once self-evident-- getting married, having children, finding a job that might last a lifetime, becoming economically independent, and owning your own home--- are more elusive and harder for many young adults to achieve. The average age for

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Sunday, Aug. 27, 2006Scientists who study young love are discovering that contrary to popular belief, male adolescents don't just want to have funBy LEV GROSSMANIn 1995 Peggy Giordano did a study of high school yearbooks. She was leafing through one when something caught her eye about the notes people had written there, something about their rawness and their honesty. "I was amazed at some of the

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