The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

Men aren't able to find jobs anymore, and they're withdrawing from society, essentially creating a matriarchy. For the upper social classes, marriage is still a successful model, but for poorer people it's not.

In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.

Hollywood is in somewhat the same position as Las Vegas these days. It went from being the capital of sin to Disneyland, and now it's landed somewhere in between. It tries to keep the sins hidden away and outwardly present itself as a defender of American virtues: justice, individual freedom, and the power of one innocent soul to save the world.

On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.

If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.