Abstinence education – the curriculum to tell adolescents not to have sex instead of telling them about sex – lives on in the health care reform.
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Recession, resilience, divorce?
In hard times, families are a big part of how people make it through, but hard times are also hard for a lot of marriages. The evidence doesn't support a declining divorce rate in this recession.
Erectile distribution
Health care reform could help level the erectile distribution.
Gay rights birthright
Tendency among the public to support gay rights only if homosexuality is something people are "born with" reflects the stigmatized status of homosexuality - not something the movement wants to hang its hat on.
Bio dad over moms’ rights
As long as gay couples have to scrounge for family recognition these kinds of conflicts will keep coming up.
And in meritocracy news…
Having trouble reconciling the reality of unequal opportunity - which comes from the patchwork funding system based on local resources and the whims of millionaires - with the ideal of meritocracy?
Latina teen suicide
Among young adults in all race-ethnic groups, women are more likely to attempt suicide than men, but men are much more likely to succeed.
Film by: Men
4% of top-movie cinematographers are women.
France’s 50-50 boardroom mandate?
A bigger slice of the icing. France's ruling party has proposed a requirement of gender balance on corporate boards for all companies on the French stock exchange within five years. Currently, only 8% of top-500 board members are women. Under the plan, companies would have 18 months to get to 20% female, and four years…
Women’s income health gradient news
The income health gradient is very common, a consequence of the many injuries suffered at the bottom of the social class spectrum in modern societies.
Family Inequality 