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A daughter reexamines her own family story in 'The Mixed Marriage Project"
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (492+ words) Dorothy Roberts (left) is the George A. Weiss university professor of law & sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her parents, Robert and Iris, married in the 1950s. Cris Crisman/Simon & Schuster; Dorothy Roberts hide caption Almost a decade after her father's death,…...
In the 'biggest book giveaway in history' WWII soldiers received pocket-sized reads
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (621+ words) When I was growing up, many of the dads in my neighborhood had served in World War II. True to stereotype, none of them talked much about the war. Information came sideways. My best friend's dad, who'd been in the Air…...
UN gravely concerned by an Afghan Taliban law that has provisions on child marriage
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (584+ words) FILE: Zareena, left, and Shakeela, internally displaced Afghan girls play outside a shanty at a refugee camp in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 25, 2011. Dar Yasin/AP hide caption KABUL, Afghanistan " The United Nations expressed "grave concern" on Thursday…...
The missing men of the American marriage market
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1319+ words) It's a bit weird to think of dating or marriage as a market " but this is a newsletter that tries to make sense of the world through economics. And, like any market, shifts in supply and demand can reshape romantic…...
Ayelet Waldman talks about her 19th-century historical fiction novel, 'A Perfect Hand': NPR
1+ week, 4+ day ago (36+ words) A lady's maid and a gentleman's valet fall in love and hatch a plan to get their employers together in the new novel "A Perfect Hand." NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with author Ayelet Waldman about it....
Christina Baker Kline's novel imagines the life of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker: NPR
2+ week, 3+ day ago (31+ words) Chang and Eng Bunker were famous conjoined twins who married sisters. Christina Baker Kline imagines what their lives were like in her novel, "The Foursome." She talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe....
Belle Burden's marriage ended. Then she found her voice (CT+): Consider This from NPR
2+ week, 4+ day ago (157+ words) In Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, author Belle Burden recounts her husband checking out of the couple's 20-year marriage at the beginning of the pandemic. The memoir has made quite the splash. It's in its 9th printing, and Netflix won an…...
Belle Burden on 'Strangers' and how divorce enabled her life as a writer: NPR's Book of the Day: NPR
3+ week, 1+ day ago (278+ words) During the second week of the Covid lockdown, Belle Burden's husband ended their 20-year marriage and became "someone [she] did not recognize." Their divorce and the affair that prompted it came as a shock to Burden, who says she had…...
Tradwives and the pressures of modern motherhood: Code Switch
3+ week, 4+ day ago (159+ words) Motherhood in the U. S. is revered. Actual mothers? Not so much. So where's a bedraggled mom to turn when she feels overworked, overwhelmed, and underappreciated? Turns out, momfluencers are stepping in to fill that void, including a particular category of momfluencer:…...
Dear Life Kit: I'm at my breaking point: NPR
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (69+ words) Family and marriage expert Moraya Seeger De Geare weighs in on questions from listeners who have reached a breaking point in their relationships with the people around them. Follow us on Instagram: @nprlifekit Sign up for our newsletter here. Have…...