This Labor Day, with the nation's unemployment rate closing in on 10 percent, the highest level it has been since Ronald Reagan was president, "celebrating the contributions of American workers to the nation's prosperity" sounds about as appealing as drinking a steaming mug of hot chocolate in 95-degree heat.

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The rather sobering news about a rise in pregnancy rates among teenagers for the first time since 1991 seems to have re-awakened Americans' fears over the problem of early childbearing. According to the sociologist Frank Furstenberg, who has studied teenage pregnancy for four decades and recently published a book...

So what are your plans after graduation? As June approaches, this dreaded question not only weighs on the minds of the nation's college grads, but in the age of Failure to Launch, it likely keeps more than a few parents awake at night.

Magazines and newspapers are full of stories...

As Mother's Day approaches, the reporters from women's magazines start calling to interview family experts like myself for their seasonal pieces on Hollywood's single mother baby boom. Apparently, magazine readers are eager to hear about the legions of glamorous and elegant women who, unwilling to wait for a ring on...

Among the pantheon of statistics we college professor-types like to throw around in the lecture hall: the fact that a woman gets paid 77 cents for every dollar a man earns endures as a favorite. In an Op-Ed piece for the Washington Post, author Carrie Lukas takes issue with...