Two Dangerous Weeks, Normalizing the Abnormal Patti Ashley, PhD January 7, 2021 Yesterday I watched the live coverage of the unthinkable violence that erupted at the Capital most of the afternoon and evening. I don’t usually watch that much news in one day. Even though…

When my first daughter was born in 1980, women had begun to enter the workforce in record numbers, breast-feeding was the preferred feeding option, and the question of whether or not to let your baby cry was in the forefront of a mother’s mind. Times…

So Father’s Day is finally over. I am not sure why it was especially sad for me this year. After all, my father has been dead for forty-four years. Looking at all the Facebook posts of fathers and daughters and families, I couldn’t seem to…

Times have changed quite a bit in the past 50 years. Mothers hold the most important job on the planet, and yet they seem to be desperately struggling with how to “do it all” in a culture that tends to simultaneously idealize and suppress women…