"The baby’s not going to remember if I was there or not. You know?" And other nuggets about work-family decision-making.
Jobs and repeals
Slow progress.
Shame and pity: Headless obesity and pitiful starvation
How about images of complete people in the social contexts of their lives?
Let a hundred churches bloom
Religious cacophony, immigrant diversity, in Montgomery County, Maryland.
200 researchers respond to Regnerus paper
Expressing serious concerns about the process and the decision to publish the paper.
Health inequality recap
Killing time before the SCOTUS decision on Obamacare is announced.
Do Asians in the U.S. have high incomes?
Most Asians are in higher-than-average-income groups. But it's not that simple.
Bad science on top of stigma for lesbian and gay parents
Don't let this study be used to justify denying foster and adopted children the right to live in the loving families of gay and lesbian parents who are prepared to care for them.
Time travel: Regnerus study timeline suggests superhuman abilities
I will comment more soon on Mark Regnerus's paper, "How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study." (Short: I think it's a bad-quality piece of research that should not have been published; and that Regnerus cynically manipulated promotion by the conservative press and anti-equality…
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Recession studies, academic job security edition
Google searches for recession peaked during the recession, in 2008. Academics take a little more time (usually). The academic recession hasn't yet peaked, as of 2011 - in terms of sociology and demography articles with they keyword "recession" in the Web of Science: There is still a lot to do. With that in mind, we…
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Family Inequality 