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  • Delayed Motherhood and the Body Beautiful

    Delayed Motherhood and the Body Beautiful2

    There are some who say children rob you of your youth. Perhaps this belief is even influencing the trend of Western women putting off having kids till later in life. Though the delaying of motherhood is explained by demographers in various other ways, it could also betray a kind of pathology in women, persuading them

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  • Love at First Sight: Is it Real?

    Love at First Sight: Is it Real?0

    For a lecture course I teach at Brown University called “Love Stories,” we begin at the beginning, with love at first sight.   To its detractors, love at first sight must be an illusion – the wrong term for what is simply infatuation, or a way to sugarcoat lust. Buy into it, they say, and

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  • Why It Matters That Teens Are Reading Less

    Why It Matters That Teens Are Reading Less0

    Most of us spend much more time with digital media than we did a decade ago. But today’s teens have come of age with smartphones in their pockets. Compared to teens a couple of decades ago, the way they interact with traditional media like books and movies is fundamentally different. My co-authors and I analyzed

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  • Will Downton Abbey’s Gender Problem Be Solved in the 21st Century?

    Will Downton Abbey’s Gender Problem Be Solved in the 21st Century?0

    A British aristocrat has daughters but no sons, thus his title and estate must pass to a distant male relative. It’s the classic plot device in many famous stories – ranging from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to the TV show Downton Abbey. And it’s still the law of the land in Great Britain, but

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  • Catholic Sex Abuse Crisis: PA AG Says He Has Evidence That Vatican Knew

    Catholic Sex Abuse Crisis: PA AG Says He Has Evidence That Vatican Knew0

    Can you imagine a worse job than being in law enforcement with the duty of investigating cases of child sex abuse? How that must leave a person permanently scarred in soul and mind – and how that person must burn with a desire for justice.   A few weeks ago, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro

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  • Adulting May Be Hard at First, but It’s So Worth It

    Adulting May Be Hard at First, but It’s So Worth It0

    Millennials, myself included, have a bad habit of complaining that #AdultingIsHard. A simple hashtag search of that on Twitter will get you literally thousands of results, even a few accounts with that claim as their usernames. It’s a trope so ingrained into my generation that it can be used almost anywhere. You finally graduated from

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