Sociologist Phillip Cohen, who writes the excellent blog Family Inequality, appeared on Talk of the Nation recently as a guest alongside the head-desk worthy economist Isabel Sawhill who recently brought single-mom bashing into the 21st Century. He points out that many of the tangible benefits of two-parent families are things like stable housing, greater economic security, and health insurance, slyly...[ read more ]
This post from Bruce Reyes-Chow is a great example of a concrete answer to the question I tried to address in my previous post, "well what do you expect me to do if I have this privilege you're talking about?" Chow is a Presbyterian minister with a certain amount of pull in his church, having served a two-year term as...[ read more ]
So, John Scalzi wrote a post about "how to talk about privilege without getting into arguments over the P-word" by using a computer game metaphor, and the Internet exploded. People have reprinted Scalzi's post, and rehashed Scalzi's post, and interviewed Scalzi, and Scalzi has followed up on his post, and commenters are still proving that it is not necessary to...[ read more ]
I'm at the American Family Therapy Academy's annual meeting/conference this week. Fortunately it's in my backyard. Unfortunately this means driving across the Bay Bridge in rush hour traffic every morning for the opening plenary. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="@bacigalupe (AFTA President-elect) and @drsaddison at the AFTA Special Event"][/caption] Doing family-therapy-y, social-justice-y stuff all day is hard work! I'm beat! Also...[ read more ]
For those who haven't heard, HBO is airing a two-part documentary on May 14 and 15, called "The Weight of the Nation." It's getting a tremendous amount of press, and is being promoted by The Center for Disease Control and National Institute of Health, who were partners in making it. Unfortunately, it looks like it's going to be the same...[ read more ]
