Reaching a data point such as the lowest-birth-rate-ever is a milestone. It's not a tipping point unless it leads to accelerating change in the same direction.
This year on Grandparents Day, more children might want to honor their grandparents, but they won't need to mail a card to do it. So far the recessi...
PhD's: Count 'em. In 2008-2009, U.S. women pulled even with men (+/- a few hundred) in the total number of doctoral degrees awarded, according to st...
The annual income, poverty, and health insurance report comes out. At the beginning of the week, the news was that the poverty rate would jump to a r...
Tt was fashionable in the 1990s to line up the trend toward unmarried parenting with any other time series showing things getting worse.
The Florida appeals court that threw out that state's ban on gay parent adoptions yesterday didn't need this study to rule against the junk science ...
When, if ever, did this ship get turned around? After I commented on Time's story about young women earning more than young men, Editor-At-Large Bel...
Pairing up and paring down, by race/ethnicity and class. Social scientists have been talking about a "retreat from marriage" for at least 20 years. ...
