When we’re born, we have no choice as to our families, our race, our economic situation, or our gender. Many of us go through life knowing only what it’s like to be a woman, or a man. But for some, the biology they’re born with is so unbearable, and feels so unnatural, that they choose […]
Recent studies have shown that parents with young kids can put a solid marriage on the rocks. So what happens when you add a national economic crisis to the mix? Yale psychology professor Susan Nolen-Hoeksema and Lamar Tyler, blogger at the parenting website BlackandMarriedwithKids.com, say that it’s particularly hard for loving married couples to connect when times are tough.