Category Archives: Families structures, divorce, etc

Do Black Women Earn More Than White Women?

Posted on May 26, 2006 by Rachel S.

Some time during all of the time that the Duke rape scandal first erupted there was an interesting exchange in the comments section on my blog. A reader linked to this article, which includes the following quote: Black and Asian … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics and the like, Families structures, divorce, etc, Gender and the Economy, Race, racism and related issues | 20 Comments

"What about the Children?"

Posted on May 2, 2006 by Rachel S.

Another one of the snippets from my Dissertation on Black/White Relationships. Keep in mind all of these posts are snippets of a much larger piece of work, so feel free to add to things, ask questions or give critiques. I’d … Continue reading →

Posted in Families structures, divorce, etc, Race, racism and related issues | 25 Comments

Technology, Family Life, and Gender

Posted on April 24, 2006 by Rachel S.

The Journal of Marriage and Family has released a study by sociologist Noelle Chesney that indicates that cell phones are detrimental to family relationships. I am becoming increasingly anti-cell phone for this reason. The need to have to be constantly … Continue reading →

Posted in Families structures, divorce, etc, Feminism, sexism, etc, Gender and the Economy, Whatever | 37 Comments

Women's Dilemmas in Black/White Relationships

Posted on April 19, 2006 by Rachel S.

This is out of the Rachel’s Tavern archive. It is one of the Snippets from my Dissertation. Keep in mind all of these posts are snippets of a much larger piece of work, so feel free to add to things, … Continue reading →

Posted in Families structures, divorce, etc, Feminism, sexism, etc, Race, racism and related issues, Whatever | 107 Comments

Feminist blogging

Posted on March 25, 2006 by Maia

The thing about blogs is they let people talk about whatever they like. So there are an awful lot of blogs out there about women’s experiences. Sometimes I wonder if this could be used for something more. If the barrier … Continue reading →

Posted in Families structures, divorce, etc, Fat, fat and more fat, Feminism, sexism, etc, Whatever | 51 Comments

Unfair

Posted on March 22, 2006 by Maia

I have a plan to write a long post about the responses to False Advertising a post in which Morphing into Mama says that she believes that to significantly change your appearance after you get married, for instance by cutting … Continue reading →

Posted in Families structures, divorce, etc, Fat, fat and more fat, Feminism, sexism, etc | 27 Comments

Critique of "No Basis" Part One: Their Appalling Double-Standards

Posted on March 2, 2006 by Ampersand

Virtually all peer-reviewed academic research on same-sex parenting has come to one conclusion: there’s no evidence that being raised by same-sex parents harms children in any way. This result, which has been replicated in one form or another at least … Continue reading →

Posted in Families structures, divorce, etc, Same-Sex Marriage | 13 Comments

Who Wins Custody in Contested Divorce Cases?

Posted on January 23, 2006 by Ampersand

In the Boston Globe, “conservative/libertarian feminist” Cathy Young criticizes the empirical support for a recent PBS special about child abuse: Thus, the reports cite the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s Gender Bias Study of 1989 as proof that fathers who seek … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-feminists and their pals, Families structures, divorce, etc | 33 Comments

Men’s Rights Myth: Typical Child Support Payments Are Insanely High

Posted on January 18, 2006 by Ampersand

I frequently read and hear anecdotes about non-custodial parents (usually fathers) being ordered to pay outrageously high child support – amounts that are impossible for anyone with an ordinary income to afford. No doubt some of these anecdotes are exaggerated, … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-feminists and their pals, Families structures, divorce, etc, Whatever | 1,309 Comments

Donor-Conceived Children and Well-Being of Children

Posted on December 8, 2005 by Ampersand

Over on the Family Scholars Blog, quoting from his own article in the Weekly Standard, Brad Wilcox writes: Until recently, virtually no attention was paid to how the children of donor fathers make sense of their experience. Nor has the … Continue reading →

Posted in Abortion & reproductive rights, Families structures, divorce, etc | 80 Comments