The transition to parenthood is a time of stress for many couples. Most research on the transition to parenthood has been conducted with middle-class, heterosexual couples. The current study uses multilevel modeling to examine predictors of change in relationship quality (love and conflict) during the transition to parenthood in 29 lesbian couples. Predictors included personality variables, wor...

There is a notion that combining parenthood with a career in academic science is problematic, yet academic science careers can provide an outstanding career choice for professional parents because they offer extraordinary flexibility and stability. Much has been written about the paucity of women in tenure track scientific positions and the general disparity between men and women in all profess...

This study investigates possible reasons for the gender di erence in sickness absence. We estimate both shortand long-term e ects of parenthood in a within-couple analysis based on the timing of parenthood. We nd that after entering parenthood, women increase their sickness absence by between 0.5 days per month (during the child's third year) and 0.85 days per month (during year 17) more than t...

The Issues4Life Foundation, for example, is a faith-based organization that targets and works with African-American leaders toward achieving the goal of “zero African-American lives lost to abortion or biotechnology.” In April, Issues4Life wrote to the Congressional Black Caucus to denounce Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and its “racist and eugenic goals.”The group blamed PPFA ...

I propose to discuss the history of Planned Parenthood’s involvement with abortion, to discuss our present activities, both at a national and affiliate level and, finally, to take a look into the future. First, however, I would like to address myself to two points: the concept, that many people have of Planned Parenthood as a birth control agency which, as such, should not be involved in aborti...

Introduction Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are changing the legal definitions of parenthood. The severing of genetic ties from gestational ones and from the social aspect of parenting has resulted in courts having to revise traditional definitions of mother and father. This has led to a legal construct known as “intended parenthood,” in which biological ties are sometimes subordinate...