On the surface, Primates of Park Avenue is an examination of a lived stereotype: an anthropology-inflected, lightly analytical memoir of coming to belong within an Upper East Side community where blonde, thin, status-obsessed moms hip-check each other with their designer bags, where absent men dole out “wife bonuses”…
We can't decide if this is the most horrifying possible outcome to a blind date, or the happiest.
Perhaps inevitably, Babble has published several counterpoints to the shitstorm that was last week's "I Love My Son More Than My Daughter" and the ensuing fallout. (Which launched a thousand blog posts.) They're interesting and though-provoking and, hopefully, mark the end of a teachable moment for bloggers and…
Is it a myth? A cliche? A fact? We investigate, and find the first historical instance of the post-breakup hair-change:
Earlier this week, a video of a little boy wailing after his dad informed him he's "not a single lady," quickly went viral. His family took to CBS this morning, and the little guy even got to sing a bit.
A 40-year-old mother has become the first woman in the history of the Ireland to be charged with incest. The dubious honor comes as a result of truly heinous behavior.
The New York Times' "Modern Love" column is frequently irritating, silly, and asinine. But it's not often that one of these gut-spillers leaves one feeling actually disturbed, vaguely dirty, desperate to talk to a therapist and maybe call social services. Such was the reaction elicited by Sunday's "The Tiny Hand That…
"Women who regret having children are the silent minority," writes Lucy Beresford in the Times of London. Beresford is a writer and psychotherapist who says that not all women are cut out to be mothers. "Many go ahead with pregnancy," she writes, "hoping that ambivalence will be annihilated during labor by a love-bomb…
