The Nuclear Family Wasn’t Built to Last
David Brooks breaks down the enduring myth of the virtuous all-American family.
David Brooks breaks down the enduring myth of the virtuous all-American family.
Should I work on my marriage or leave to make myself happy?
The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.
The end of a weekend has always been unpleasant, but there is something distinctly modern about the anxiety many people feel on the eve of a workweek.
Giving children their own cart teaches them about courtesy and commerce while building families’ loyalty to the store.
It’s common to feel socially isolated after having a baby, but estrangement from friends doesn’t have to last forever.
The diets of expectant mothers—from the mundane to the unusual—can become imbued with deep symbolic meaning for their children.
Baby-formula sales are slumping, so the companies that make it have turned to supplements for 3-year-olds.
Over the years, she opened several credit cards in my name and now owes more than $10,000. Whenever I ask her to pay it back, she gets defensive and blames me.
Kids are getting less exposure to traditional TV ads, but marketers have found sneaky ways to reach them anyway.
The Jolenes and Daeneryses of the world have some baggage to contend with.
The intensity of feelings generated by friendship in childhood and adolescence is by design.
It’s surprisingly hard to find a good term for people in late life.
I’m worried that he hasn’t completely moved on and that this will hurt our future together.
Only one of those scenarios threatens the harmony of the friend group.
“I was always in a fishbowl. I felt like I was not just Alex, but Alex the RA.”
A generous policy is of little use when work culture heavily discourages men from taking time off.
And what a child thinks of that advice
My husband feels disrespected and unloved, and I don’t know how to bring harmony back to our family.
Many parents get caught in such a loop, but that doesn’t mean the solution is to just stay home with the kids.