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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 16th 2009

In German There's Not Even a Word For Dating...

- Laura Sessions Stepp

The young woman perched on a chair across from me at Cosi, waiting for her black coffee to cool. Her name was Wlada (pronounced Vlada) Kolosowa. A university student from Berlin, she was taking classes in Washington, DC, and had been assigned by a German newspaper to write about dating in the United States.

“In Germany, we don’t date,” she said. “There isn’t even a word for dating. So what, exactly, is a date?”

Good question.

Historically, I started, a date was a form of courtship in which one person, usually a man, asked another person, usually a woman, to accompany him to some event. He picked her up and usually paid whatever costs were involved.

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.

7.27.09

Model Moments: Our Relationship Role Models

Relationship role models can shape our entire view of what it means to love and be loved. Having relationship "model moments" are a key to having healthy and happy relationships.

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July 6th 2009

Fathers..."Kind of" Important?

- Laura Sessions Stepp

Early in my reporting for the story “Family Man,” which ran in yesterday’s Washington Post Magazine, I realized this: Despite all that social science is teaching us about the increasing involvement of young fathers, people of all ages still tend to think of pregnancy, childbirth and even child raising, as female matters. (For a surprising and rather humorous angle on father-involvement, click here).

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.

June 16th 2009

Coming of Age, Hollywood Style

- Marisa Nightingale

Last week, The Washington Post examined Hollywood's recent fascination with 20- and 30-somethings who are still fumbling their way towards something resembling adulthood. Appparently, being a grownup is so scary that being immobilized is way better. Until: something big happens that grows you up fast. In Hollywood, that turning point seems to be an unplanned pregnancy.