How many times have you asked a friend, colleague, mentor, or random social media crowd how long it took to get reviews from a particular journal? Lets expand and deepen that circle a little.
What’s the story? Family demography at the end of progress
Against a perception of normal modernity that is on some kind of track that we can try to get a handle on while we work around distractions like a pandemic, climate change, diverging and growing inequality, the centrifugal tendency of identities to be fragmenting, and policy incoherence.
Black and White women’s lifetime marriage projections
Projections show 86.2% for White women, and 61.7% for Black women, eventually marrying for a cohort born and living through conditions prevailing in 2019.
Science says: Get married at age Whatever You Want (and these are the odds of divorce)
Divorce odds are lowest for women who marry later, and for people who've been married a long time.
The Takeaway on Gen-Z, rest of the interview edition
The parts that made it into the show, and the parts that didn't.
The median mother is 30, TV interview edition
When you look at what has happened since the recession in 2008, the decline in birth was pretty dramatic, but it was all among women under age 35.
Names further down the drain in 2021: Alexa, Karen, and Mary
Amazon continued its assault on real people named Alexa in 2021, degraded the cultural value of the name through association with its robot servant product. The trend in girls given the name Alexa is very dramatic: I've been writing about the Alexa trend since 2018. You can see the previous posts here. I would also…
Continue reading ➞ Names further down the drain in 2021: Alexa, Karen, and Mary
How do researchers use, and experience, social media?
I made a short survey on how researchers use and experience social media. If you work in an academic or other research setting, in the US, and use social media at least in part for your work, please consider taking a 10- minute survey. Feel free to share! Here's a link: https://bit.ly/3LXGMa0 Thank you!
Overturning Roe and the modern family
Conservatives get one thing right: Abortion rights are a fundamental, clash-of-civilization-level battle. What is at stake, in the overturning of Roe v. Wade, is a woman’s autonomy over her own body, yes, but with it the foundation of modern family life.
The pandemic road, with data
Two year follow-up to a post on path dependence.
Family Inequality 