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BOOKS Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Separated at Birth Our Kids The American Dream in Crisis Robert D. Putnam Simon & Schuster, $28, 386 pp. Anumber of books and articles in recent years have...

Marriage at the Crossroads (May 2013)

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Status Symbol Marriage at the Crossroads Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty-First-Century Families Edited by Marsha Garrison and Elizabeth S. Scott Cambridge...

The New Segregation (May 2012)

The New Segregation Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Charles Murray has joined the inequality debate with a provocative argument that challenges the prevailing liberal view. He, too, believes there is...

More Perfect Unions by Rebecca L. Davis (June 2010)

Books Barbara Dafoe Whitehead For Worse More Perfect Unions The American Search for Marital Bliss Rebecca L. Davis Harvard University Press, $29.95, 336 pp. American couples' ambitions for...

And Baby Makes Two (October 2008)

Short take Barbara Dafoe Whitehead And Baby Makes Two WHy TeeN PReGNANcy Is oN THe RIse The McCain-Palin campaign says it’s for change, and it...

Sex & the Teenage Girl (February 2008)

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Sex & the Teenage Girl THE iNSiGHTS oF ‘JUNo’ There’s a classic story of teen pregnancy, told in books, movies, and teen magazines over the past century. It goes...

Single Mothers (January 2007)

F-. e,i ,d 0 0 ca Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Single Mothers THE COSTS OF GOING IT ALONE In a recent New York Times column, veteran political reporter Thomas B. EdsaU argued that a...

The Politics of Reconciliation (December 2006)

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead 'l'he Politics of Reconciliation SOMETIMES, NICE GUYS FINISH Democrat Deval L. Patrick made history last month by becoming the first AfricanAmerican governor of...

Answered Prayers (October 2006)

Columnists Answered Prayers To be sure, these interviewees come t",l 0 Barbara Dafoe Whitehead WHERE IS TECHNOLOGICAL REPRODUCTION TAKING US? ~ Debora the Harvard Spar is...

Role Reversals (September 2006)

g 0 Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Role Reversals HAZARDS OF THE COLLEGE PARTY CULTURE -n the wake of last spring's sex scandal involving the Duke University men's lacrosse team, a Rolling Stone...

Parenthood (June 2006)

Columnists Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Parenthood ONCE THE NORM, NOW THE EXCEPTION? Being a parent has never been easy but it is now a conspicuous source of distress and anxiety. Increasingly,...

The Boy Problem (May 2006)

Columnists Barbara Dafoe Whitehead The Boy Problem FATHERS OF THE WORLD UNITE More to the point, we're also told, the news of the gender gap is an urgent call to the society to take action to...

Values & Voters (March 2006)

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Values & Voters CAN THE DEMOCRATS TALK STRAIGHT? late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. This award--which comes with no money, no ceremony, and no statuette or...

Religion & Science (January 2006)

Columnist Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Religion & Science BRIDGING THE GAP From the Terri Schiavo controversy to the stem-cell deI bate to the conflict over intelligent design, 2005 was rife...

For Love & Money (December 2005)

~2a t.-q ~q b. ~a Barbara Dafoe Whitehead For Love & Money HAS MARRIAGE BECOME AN ELITE INSTITUTION? While media attention has focused on marriage equality for same-sex couples,...

Online Porn (October 2005)

o= Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Online Porn HOW DO WE KEEP IT FROM OUR KIDS? ~ In the age of the Internet, it is laughingly easy for kids to _9 . - , :}.:~-~'~ view pornography online. ,>~ A mere...

Defining 'Dad' Down (August 2005)

phy or the benign provider of the deists. He appears in the burning bush and will not give his name. He wrestles with Jacob (who is Israel, the one who "contends with God"). This God has no...

The Secret Lives of Mothers (June 2005)

Columnists Barbara Dafoe Whitehead The Secret Lives of Mothers THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RICH & POOR 1.3 Z2~ t"q A =, When motherhood was the common and expected lot of most women, it was...

Teenage Sex (April 2005)

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Teenage Sex WHY MORE YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WAITING Tile popular portrait of teenage sexual behavior can leave many parents with the disquieting sense that American...

Child Rearing (February 2005)

oa ca Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Child Rearing WHY PARENTS FEEL SO INEPT ~ ~ - Are today's parents worried that >::}~ ~<~ they're not up to the job? Are ' ~I they afrmd of their own kids ~:| Is...

Parents Need Help (January 2005)

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Parents Need Help RESTRICTING ACCESS TO VIDEO GAMES A century ago, Jane Addams and other progressive reformers in Chicago responded to the dangers of the industrial...

The marriage gap Can Democrats talk the talk? (December 2004)

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead THE MARRIAGE GAP When will the Democrats wake up? Looking back over the results of the presidential election, pundits now agree that the war over terror, not the war over...

It's Not The Media (February 2004)

to the full rigor of Paul's admonition. By cent social life, and for the foreseeable acknowledging non-conduct-based en- future, we will be seeking an elusive, titlements to certain basic needs, he...

Hard to swallow (March 2003)

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead HARD TO SWALLOW PBS's 'The Pill' Hast month, as part of the highly regarded American Experience series, PBS stations across the country aired The Pill, a documentary...

Public Vows (May 2001)

15 TILL DEATH DO US PART? Public Vows A History of Marriage and the Nation Nancy Cott Harvard,Univercity Press,$27.95, 288 pp. Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Ask Americans today to define...

One Nation, Two Cultures by Gertrude Himmelfarb RELIGION BOOKS (March 2000)

as well as institutional authority...

A Return to Modesty: Is there a way back to how it used to be between men and women? (February 1999)

BOOKS Victoria's secret A Return to Modesty Discovering the Lost Virtue Wendy Shalit I'lie I'm I'rr-,. it!. M>4 is/;. Barbara Daf oe Whitehead A growing body of research evidence tells us...

Maybe One (May 1998)

ENOUGH ALREADY Barbara Dafoe Whitehead verpopulation is not high on the list of problems Americans worry about. After all, the birth rate in the United States currently stands below...

The Vulnerable Child by Richard Weissbourd The Abolition of Marriage by Maggie Gallagher (May 1996)

CAN MARRIAGE BE RESCUED? The Vulnerable Child What Really Hurts America's Children and What We Can Do about It Richard Weissbourd Addison-Wesley, $22, 280 pp. The Abolition of Marriage How We...

Critics' choices for Christmas Traveling widely, reading closely (even eccentrically), and judging perspicaciously, our panel of Christmas critics has put together a list of titles that includes everything from an obedient Lassie to God's brilliantly wayward "biographer" And then there's the poetry and the theology Please share the good words (December 1995)

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Barbara Dafoe Whitehead is a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, writes for the...

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Whitehead, Henry S.

Whitehead, Ralph

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Whiteley, Frank A.

Whiten, Peter

Whiteside, Mary Brent

Whitman, John

Whitmore, Brian

Whitmore, Todd David

Whitridge, Arnold

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