Marriage & Family

We all know the importance of mothers. They are typically as paramount in the wild as they are in human relationships. But what about fathers?

In this timely and necessary book, New York Times opinion writer Jessica Grose dismantles two hundred years of unrealistic parenting expectations and empowers today’s mothers to make choices that actually serve themselves, their children, and their communities....

Navigating the challenges of long-term commitment takes effort - and it just got simpler, with this empowering, step-by-step guide to communicating about the things that matter most to you and your partner....

In the early hours of dawn in Amsterdam, Deepa Paul rises from her boyfriend’s bed. She gets dressed, slips away with a kiss and cycles home, where she is welcomed into the arms of her husband, whose contentment is mellow alongside her own.

Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was sent away from her parents and beloved sisters....

The pain of abandonment, both real and metaphorical, can cast a shadow over our entire adult experience....

All too often society issues dire warnings about the risks of living single. But is finding a spouse or romantic partner really a requirement for a full life?

American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are responding. They're dropping out of college, leaving the workforce, and avoiding marriage....

Molly Roden Winter was a mother of small children with a husband, Stewart, who often worked late. One night when Stewart missed the kids’ bedtime—again—she stormed out of the house to clear her head.

Eli J. Finkel's insightful and ground-breaking investigation of marriage clearly shows that the best marriages today are better than the best marriages of earlier eras....

The essential companion for every mother embarking on maternity leave.

When first published in 2001, it divided female critics and readers....

Women who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in life, yet we rarely talk about the possibility that the opposite might also be true - that women who have children might regret it. Drawing on years of research....

As a childfree woman, Dr. Amy Blackstone is no stranger to a wide range of negative responses when she informs people she doesn't have - nor does she want - kids: confused looks, patronizing quips, thinly veiled pity, even outright scorn and condemnation....

Psychologists often paint a picture of human mating as visceral, instinctual. But that's not the whole story....

Remaking the world through connection, care, and community requires radical imagination....

You probably don't realise this, but every working day you replay and re-enact conflicts, dynamics and relationships from your past....

From Just Between Us cohost and bestselling author Allison Raskin comes a witty, incisive take on modern marriage and how a new generation can navigate its uncertainties and questions.

Marriage Markets cuts through the ideological and moralistic rhetoric that drives our current debate. It offers critical solutions for a problem that will haunt America for generations to come....

In her first book of comic strips, Emma reflects on social and feminist issues by means of simple line drawings, dissecting the mental load, ie all that invisible and unpaid organizing, list-making and planning women do to manage their lives, and the lives of their family members....

An encouraging guide to helping parents find more happiness in their day-to-day family life, from the former lead editor of the New York Times' Motherlode blog....

What are we really thinking about when we think about sex? And what are we really doing when we do it? As acclaimed psychoanalyst Darian Leader argues, with his trademark clarity, energy and wit, there is no such thing as 'just sex'....

More than 20 years ago, sociologist and University of California, Berkeley, professor Arlie Hochschild set off a tidal wave of conversation and controversy with her best-selling book, The Second Shift. In it, she examined what really happens in dual-career households....

Henry Stanton’s 1922 book Sex: Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English is intended as a frank guide to human sexual behaviour and relationships....

Mona Charen unpacks the ways feminism fails us at home, in the workplace, and in our personal relationships - by promising that we can have it all, do it all, and be it all. She upends the feminist agenda and the liberal conversation surrounding women's issues by asking tough questions....