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At a time when parenting is endlessly interrupted by digital communication and social media, brands must beware of exacerbating the pressure on women, writes Nicola Kemp. According to @babycentreuk, mothers feel under intense pressure, and don’t need that made worse by brands. Via malek
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
Google ‘parenting advice’ returns more than 85m articles, it is no surprise that 56% of new parents feel overwhelmed by the advice they receive. 
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Nina Keneally started her service after chatting with the youth of New York’s hip Bushwick neighbourhood. Adam Gabbatt went to her for some tea and sympathy
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The driving force behind all this focused time is the idea that it’s good for kids. That’s why parents often feel guilty if they can’t find the time or even go so far as to quit their full-time jobs to make more time. This assumption, however, isn’t bearing out in the science, at least not for mothers’ time.
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Straight out of the creepy files, dads are viewing their daughters as their own property -- property which can be defended like some backward "stand your ground" law. The following exhibits were al...
Deanna Dahlsad's comment,
January 21, 2015 5:01 PM
@Laura Brown I can't agree with you. Wearing shirts about guns & violent threats isn't the answer to rape culture. In fact, this stinks more of rape culture than anything. It's about a man's property; not respect or a woman's value.
Laura Brown's comment,
January 21, 2015 6:23 PM
I'm reading it as more bluster or humour based. But the tone of protecting daughters is still important. People don't protect something or someone they don't value.
Laura Brown's comment,
January 21, 2015 6:25 PM
Maybe it's a Canada/ US difference too. Not many people here actually have a gun to wave around. So here a shirt like that would not be seen as serious versus humour or propaganda.
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As a parent, I've long been upset with the sad state of sex education in this country. As a parent of a (now adult) child with special needs, I'm even more upset. Children and even adults with spec...
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Below is a remarkable commercial in which a white woman is told that if she buys Pampers, the company will donate vaccines to children in other countries.
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Charles Orlando explains that violence against women is not innate to masculinity, but rather something taught.
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
The story about what was seen at Disney is especially powerful
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Conversations with his mom about the role of women in society made Joe Gordon-Levitt a feminist. Is he the prototype of the Millennial male? Via Craftypants Carol
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RH Reality Check recently spoke with Avital Norman Nathman, editor of The Good Mother Myth: Redefining Motherhood to Fit Reality, about toxic ideas of perfection, parenting, and gender.
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This month’s guest column* by Tristan Bridges, Ph.D., deals with a recent research publication on a correlation between testicle size and nurturing instincts/behaviors in men. Bridges, a sociologist at The College at Brockport, State University of New York, is currently working on a project dealing with the meanings of “man caves” in contemporary U.S. households.
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How can you tell women that if they just put down the pound cake and took up your prayer and exercise regime they would look like that, when you don't even look like that? I am...disappoint. And none of this is to say her photo here isn't gorgeous. The only one saying that is her, when she thanks her fans for being "understanding and supportive" of her stomach skin. She is a damn knockout, as she is. I'm sorry she doesn't see it that way. Via PebbleInTheStillWaters
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Feminist education comes in waves, not from just one talk. (At what age do we tell our daughters to defy gender norms? http://t.co/GH6qWlT4qZ) Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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This week's issue of Time screams, "ARE YOU MOM ENOUGH?" over a photo of a woman breastfeeding her son who, frankly, looks old enough to cut up his own piece of steak.
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Multiple partners, teen pregnancies more likely among those who were victimized, surveys show ("Parents need to speak to their sons about sexual abuse awareness and prevention, as parents of girls do. Via Douglas Braun-Harvey
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This photo of Suzanne Pleshette reminds me of my dad.
...How he and his crushes taught me about me & relationships.
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by MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, Salon.com
The tale began a few months ago, when blogger Amelia penned a column about her then 6-year-old son’s crush on Blaine from “Glee.” She noted how her husband had observed at the time, “So if at 16 he wants to make a big announcement at the dinner table, we can say ‘You told us when you were six.’”
They didn’t have to wait nearly that long. Just last month, Amelia, who has been steadily chronicling her family’s experiences in this new terrain, wrote a piece entitled “When Your 7-Year-Old Son Announces, ‘I’m Gay.’” In it, she reveals how her Blaine-crushing offspring, a child who just a few months earlier had no concept of the word “gay,” had casually come out to her one day, right before bounding off to play with his brothers. “Gay,” he’d said. “I’m gay.”
And what did mom do? She “leaned down to eye level with him and rubbed my nose against his,” and told him, “I love you so much.” [MORE] Via J'nene Solidarity Kay
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Motherhood without marriage among younger women across the country is both a symbol of the transforming family and a hint of coming generational change.
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For economic and social reasons, many Afghan parents want to have a son. This preference has led to some of them practising the long-standing tradition of Bacha Posh - disguising girls as boys. Tahir Qadiry BBC.
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When I was in college I was a single parent. Finding myself struggling personally with the demands of continuing education and single parenting (a special needs child too yet) was...
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NPR's Jennifer Ludden reviews Liza Mundy's new book, The Richer Sex, which argues that as women out-earn men, the balance of power will shift in the dating scene, the marriage market and family life.
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Forty-three percent of Gen X women and 32 percent of Gen X men do not have any children. Is this by choice or do they feel forced into the decision?
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Colorful Prism Of Racism
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Crimes Against Humanity
From lone gunmen on hills to mass movements. Depressing as hell, really.
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The meaning behind the math of the bottom line in publishing and the media. For writers, publishers, and bloggers (which are a combination of the two).
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It's as easy to romanticize the past as it is to demonize it; instead, let's learn from it. More than living simply, more than living 'green', thrifty grandmas knew the importance of the 'economics' in Home Economics. The history of home ec, lessons in thrift, practical tips and ideas from the past focused on sustainability for families and out planet. Companion to http://www.thingsyourgrandmotherknew.com/
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Google ‘parenting advice’ returns more than 85m articles, it is no surprise that 56% of new parents feel overwhelmed by the advice they receive.