Women who say they hunger for a new intimacy with their fathers often have a hard time defining it, or apportioning it -- how much is too much; how much is not enough?
Peggy Drexler | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
There is a difficult emotional terrain when a father's interest in his daughter's life extends to trying to control it. How does a daughter balance intimacy and independence?
Peggy Drexler | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
Throughout much of history, mothers were the center of a daughter's universe. But as young women join the world their fathers know, it's a whole new age of possibility for a daughter-father relationship.
Janet Carlson | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living
For years, I'd seen mostly just mothers at weekday school eventsm but I looked around and saw more fathers -- in fact, many fathers, along with the familiar crowd of moms who don't commute as I do.
Pedro C. Moreno | Posted 12.02.2009 | World
Priya was always special. A bright child, a talented singer, with a sweet disposition. Today, on the lawns of the Chief Minister of Delhi's official residence, Priya's father, maybe for the first time, also realized this fact.
Telegraph | Ian Johnston | Posted 06.25.2009 | Living
Economists claim to have found a correlation between the number of daughters and sons in a household and their father's political views. By analysi...
Peggy Drexler | Posted 05.09.2009 | Living
Because of mental illness, substance abuse or emotional problems, dad might be there physically, but compared to the bond they had while she was growing up, he has gone to an unreachable place.
Pedro C. Moreno | Posted 04.04.2009 | World
We absolutely need to work together, women and men, fathers and mothers, in the education and protection of all children -- especially girls.
Peggy Drexler | Posted 03.09.2009 | Living
Daddy's little girl is now a CEO, a physician, a trader, and entrepreneur. For the first time, a new generation of women is in a position to out achieve the man who was once her protector.
Peggy Drexler | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living