At first glance, Spring Breakers looks like the ultimate Girls Gone Wild video, taken up several notches. Four women college students long for the tropical carousing of a Florida spring break. But they find themselves short of cash. Driven to desperation, their courage bolstered by cocaine, three of them (leaving…  [more]

I have a 6-year-old daughter and a 2-year-old son. When I process current events, I often do so through the lens of the absolute joy and terror of raising children. In the past few weeks, my parenting angst has centered around sex and gender. Several weeks ago, Sarah Bessey's post…  [more]

A recent Pew Research survey about modern parenthood revealed some interesting societal shifts. According to NPR's story on the survey: ... fathers spend three times as many hours a week on child care, and twice as much on housework, as they did in the 1960s. Sounds like a major shift,…  [more]

On one side wait tens of thousands of Russian orphans. I’ve met many of them - big eyes and wounded hearts, with names like Sergei, Sasha and Svetlana. On the other stand myriad American families, willing to welcome these children as their own. I’ve met many of the families, too…  [more]

About 10 years ago, my husband and I went through a difficult few months as we considered whether to use a genetic screening technique to ensure that our second child wouldn’t inherit my painful bone disorder, as our first daughter did. As we met with doctors and cared for our…  [more]