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February 22nd 2010

Dating Violence: Not Just “Their” Problem

- Laura Sessions Stepp

Last week, the University of Oregon’s highly-touted running back, LaMichael James, was charged with strangling, assaulting and harassing his girlfriend.

Misdemeanor charges.

That’s all?

Pushed her down in a public parking lot.

Didn’t anyone see it?

We don’t know. Because from what I can tell from news clips and blogs, no reporter asked.

2.22.10

Confronting Dating Violence

Sometimes a relationship can turn violent. How can you get out of it? Are there signs you should have seen? What can friends and family do to help? Is there anything you can do to avoid an abusive relationship in the first place? In honor of Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, we talked to two young women who experienced dating violence beginning in their teens - and to one expert with good advice for all of us.

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January 19th 2010

Forms of Love: Friends, Family, Flames

- Laura Sessions Stepp

With Valentine’s Day less than a month away, it’s a good time to think about love. Not falling in love; that’s easy. Our body’s chemistry takes care of that.

No, it’s the what-comes-after-the-goopy-cards that I want to talk about: the loving. That’s what scares us. It consumes time, drains our emotions, and makes us vulnerable to hurt and loss. So why do we get sucked in, again and again? Because we are creatures who attach. Two recent TV documentaries expand on this.

December 16th 2009

Twenty-Something Men Want Babies, Study Says

- Laura Sessions Stepp

This piece is cross-posted from The Huffington Post, where it appeared on December 15, 2009.

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When I first saw Ben Stone, the 23-year-old slacker in the movie "Knocked Up," get mushy over his prospective whoops-baby, I thought, what a bunch of malarkey. Guys in their 20s don't want to be papas.

November 18th 2009

The Hills Are Alive With The Sound of Really, Really Bad Ideas. . .

- Stefanie

I should first admit that I don’t watch The Hills. I have a basic knowledge of the evolution of the show: it was born out of Laguna Beach, produced the spinoff The City, and it is chock-full of drama and lots and lots of good old-fashioned manipulation. The other day my friend sent me this clip with the warning: “It may make your head explode.”

October 31st 2009

And How Are The Children?

- Laura Sessions Stepp

Alma Powell, a well-known advocate for youth, opened a grand dinner at the Newseum this week, the U.S. Capitol illuminated behind her, by asking a simple question: “And how are the children?”

It was an appropriate salutation, delivered to reporters about to receive awards for writing and broadcasting about disadvantaged children and families.

June 21st 2009

Dads and Daughters, Part II: In Praise of (Good) Fathers

- Laura Sessions Stepp

On Father’s Day, as a follow-up to Part I of Dads and Daughters, let’s not forget the fathers who are doing a bang-up job. Maia Matalon, of Davis, CA, has a dad like that. Here is, in part, what she says about how he has influenced what she thinks about sex, men, and relationships with men:

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June 19th 2009

Dads and Daughters, Part I: In Search Of (Good) Fathers

- Laura Sessions Stepp

You don’t have to be Meredith Grey, the tormented star of Grey’s Anatomy, to know that an absent father can warp a woman’s understanding of herself and the men in her life.

Many fathers tend to vanish during a girl’s teen years, and not necessarily by moving across the country as Thatcher Grey did. They disappear at home - to their computers after dinner and to television on weekends.

There’s some evidence today’s dads spend more time with their little girls than in the past - that is, during infancy and childhood. They turn up at father-daughter events at school and coach girls’ sports teams.