Topic
Parenting
244 published works
The Right Coast
How Helicopter Parenting Can Cause Binge Drinking – The Atlantic
I was a teenager in the 1970s. It was a different time. We did not drink or do drugs or have sex in captivity. We did those things in the…
Family Law Prof Blog
Tiger Mom on Contracts with the Cubs
By Family Law
Yale Law Professor Amy Chua, writing for the Wall Street Journal:I recently had a harrowing parenting experience, which I addressed through recourse to the law.My daughters Sophia and Lulu are…
Family Law Prof Blog
Matchmaking Parents
By Family Law
From LA Times:Bachelor No. 647, a willowy lab tech in a blue polo shirt and thick glasses, squirmed as his eyes darted from one corner of the low-ceilinged hotel ballroom…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Parental Equality When Parenting Isn’t Equal
By Tracy Thomas
Susan Boyd (British Columbia), “Equality: An Uncomfortable Fit in Parenting Law”, in Robert Leckey, ed., After Legal Equality: Family, Sex, Kinship (Routledge 2015), 42-58Since the second wave of the women’s…
Family Law Prof Blog
Valuating Emotional Labor
By Family Law
From the Guardian:We remember children’s allergies, we design the shopping list, we know where the spare set of keys is. We multi-task. We know when we’re almost out of Q-tips,…
Family Law Prof Blog
Millennial Parents
By Family Law
From Time:Until now, members of the millennial generation—those 20- and 30-somethings born from the late ’70s to the late ’90s—have mostly been busy following themselves. Helicopter-parented, trophy-saturated and abundantly friended,…
NJ Family Legal Blog
WHY I’M NOT IMPRESSED WITH THE DIVORCE SELFIE, AND OTHER MUSINGS OF A DIVORCE LAWYER
By Eliana Baer
Unless you’ve been living under a rock these past few days, you have undoubtedly heard about the Calgary couple that used their divorce as an opportunity to nab a quick…
Family Law Prof Blog
Studies Show Parenthood is Worse Than Divorce, Unemployment – Even the Death of a Partner
By Family Law
From The Washington Post:Life has its ups and downs, but parenthood is supposed to be among the most joyous. At least that's what the movies and Target ads tell us.In reality,…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Maria Shriver’s “A Conversation on Modern Masculinity”
By Tracy Thomas
Independent Daughters, Intelligent Wives: A Discussion of Masculinity and the Modern ManA Woman’s Nation, the non-profit organization run by Maria Shriver, recently released its survey The Shriver Report Snapshot: An Insight…
Family Law Prof Blog
Millennial Dads
By Family Law
From The New York Times:Young men today have aspirations of being hands-on fathers as well as breadwinners — supportive husbands who also do dishes.But as they enter that more responsibility-filled…