by Marianne Cooper, adapted from this post in the Huffington Post “We are probably in the top 1 percent of all American households . . . So I can’t complain . . …
by Hilary Levey Friedman Lois was one of the most involved moms I have ever met. She gave up her professional career to manage the childhood careers of her daughters, which involved …
by Margaret Gray The burgeoning local food movement comes with a promotional promise: buying direct from the farmer seals a bond of intimacy, offers fresher and tastier products, and is more wholesome …
by Ken Kolb “I want a restraining order against him right now.” The first time I heard a client say this during my research, I was surprised by the response she received. …
by Judith A. Levine “Right now today you really can’t trust no one,” Mia Fields declared as we sat in her kitchen talking about how she is raising her four girls. Mia …
by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo When the financial crisis hit, stores across the nation went out of business, but by 2009 one U.S. retailer was crowing about an upswing in sales: Burpee Seeds. The …
by Ana Villalobos “I just don’t feel quite right in the world without at least one child next to me…I should be more confident and not need a child almost as a …
by Randol Contreras For the last two years, I have conducted field research on East Los Angeles to learn how the economic recession has affected gangs. In particular, I am studying members …
by Yen Espiritu The socioeconomic conditions in which most Vietnamese children found themselves have been greatly insecure, “comparable only to those encountered by children of the most underprivileged native minority group.”[i] And …
by Leslie C. Bell, Ph.D., LCSW Excited yet embarrassed, Claudia, a twenty-eight-year-old I interviewed for my book, Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom, told me about a …