In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.

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.

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

To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.

I deeply believe that men and women need each other.

Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.