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2026 20

  1. Is America in a demographic crisis? Demographers don’t think so
  2. Inconceivable takes insecurity too far
  3. Demographic facts college students should know in 2026
  4. Demographic crisis framing is everywhere
  5. It’s not bigotry to say Lyman Stone is a bigot
  6. My Zepbound year
  7. My mother, Avis H. Cohen, woman in science (1941-2026)
  8. Stephanie Coontz brings it home with For Better and Worse
  9. Did AI cause the phones-cause-depopulation hype cycle?
  10. CBS Radio and the way we were, WHCU edition
  11. The definitive US baby name popularity and androgyny update for 2025
  12. Pronatalism is not sending their best
  13. Most Americans who aren’t having children don’t want to (and not because of the environment)
  14. Which jobs make a meaningful contribution to the world?
  15. There is a tsunami of fake social science research coming for us, and the American Sociological Association doesn’t care
  16. Factcheck: Conservatives want children, Democrats want sexual deviance
  17. I was on Emily Oster’s podcast about marriage and didn’t even know it
  18. Now in The Conversation: ‘Expertise’ shouldn’t be a bad word – expert consensus guides science and society
  19. Inflaming population decline with math (generations bonus edition)
  20. Comment on After the Spike at UCLA event

2025 43

  1. Down the hatch, 2025
  2. Year end book roundup
  3. Another update on American Sociological Review’s failure to meet current social science standards
  4. Me against pronatalism, now in The New Republic
  5. Update: Political divide over science widening more (and now including moderates)
  6. Stopping rules don’t affect the population’s sex ratio at birth
  7. No two demographic transitions are alike, except when they are (China v. India, etc)
  8. Ideal (family size) compared to what?
  9. Child poverty in 2024 was a $62 billion problem
  10. Let’s all use the right fertility rate terms and definitions
  11. Four variables that say a lot about the USA today (name the scale)
  12. War on science, Douthat credulity edition
  13. South Carolina has a lot of churches
  14. Negative perception of falling birth rates in the U.S. is associated with right-wing people and beliefs
  15. Data viz: Who thinks it’s bad if Americans have fewer children?
  16. Reproductive agency and the power to not have a child
  17. Origin of the term “race suicide” in 1901
  18. What is growth for, JC Kumarappa edition
  19. The rising marital birth rate and its emerging SES slope in the U.S., not explained
  20. Women rule 23.5% of the world’s population
  21. Fertility trends, inequality, and economic growth doodles
  22. Brad Wilcox’s never-ending Marry Tale
  23. In The Hill: Views from the front lines of Trump’s war on the science community
  24. That time the Myrdals projected Sweden’s future population in 1941
  25. In which I give Lyman Stone’s complaint the attention it deserves
  26. Does cultural diversity cushion the decline of fertility rates?
  27. Projections show that increasing the birth rate (as if you could) is the wrong way to get more workers
  28. Brad Wilcox lies a lot, part whatever
  29. The definitive US baby name popularity and androgyny update for 2024
  30. Philip Cohen on How “Citizen Scholars” Can Engage with the Public in Uncertain Times
  31. Trusting Lyman Stone, and the gathering crisis of expertise
  32. U.S. conservative Christians’ girl names, ranked
  33. Hands Off DC 2025, in pictures
  34. Open Science keynote at Max Planck Institute in Rostock (audio version)
  35. New report shows more US births to older mothers can’t replace declines at younger ages
  36. Elon Musk’s comment on empathy is much worse than you thought
  37. Occupation gender segregation and birth rates in the U.S.
  38. It might be time to retire the GSS measure of ideal number of children
  39. In LSE Impact: We are all losers in Trump’s ‘common sense’ war on social science
  40. Ask yourself now what you’re willing to be fired over
  41. Gender, Work, and Family 2025 graduate seminar
  42. Seeing MAGA’s faces
  43. Write as if the Truth Really Matters

2024 47

  1. What choice do we have (2024 output in review)
  2. Are too many children transitioning? That’s the wrong question
  3. Twenty-four books I read in 2024
  4. Elon Musk’s father is quite racist, too, and pronatalism is an authoritarian boy toy (I told Sky News)
  5. Parenting beyond magic (that NY Times story about switched embryos)
  6. Trump is a fascist but this isn’t Nazi Germany
  7. A unit on genocide for a Social Problems undergraduate class
  8. Why I’m joining the American Sociological Association again (because of fascism)
  9. Pronatalism won’t work but the far right loves it anyway (me in The Hill)
  10. Replication and extension of NYTimes Upshot analysis of White men without college degrees
  11. Lilly Ledbetter and that time I testified before the Senate HELP Committee on equal pay
  12. Pronatalism’s tough math
  13. The wealth of the three richest men could eliminate US child poverty for 10 years
  14. There is no high-development fertility rebound
  15. You know what’s really migrant crime? Trump and ICE, and people who know better should explain this stuff
  16. That time a book publisher ignored my negative review
  17. How E.D. Hirsch coined the Cohen Curve and gave me credit for the opposite of what I said
  18. JD Vance says, “aggressively attack the universities in this country,” promotes my new book
  19. Demographic facts college students need to know today
  20. Between the lines, Trump is racist/sexist and Vance hates children
  21. New research on the state of sociology
  22. The definitive explanation for why neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris are Baby Boomers
  23. Presidential candidate height situation befuddled by gender
  24. Living and learning as if binary identities aren’t everything
  25. The Trumpist right, where young women work with old men
  26. There is little evidence for reversing low fertility rates
  27. The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change 4th edition now out in print
  28. Population implosion collapse chaos, pronatalist billionaire discourse edition
  29. If I boycott Israeli state academia, should you boycott America?
  30. Giving girls surnames as first names has peaked, for now
  31. Cohabitation displacing marriage
  32. The definitive US baby name popularity and androgyny update for 2023
  33. x-axis manipulation and depopulation panic
  34. (Scholar) Activism and active citizenship
  35. From Baby Bust to ongoing fertility collapse (just kidding)
  36. Why I endorse the Sociologists for Palestine resolution
  37. Nationalism eats your moral brain
  38. Declining a review for the Israel Science Foundation, explained
  39. Population and Society graduate seminar syllabus
  40. Me in the Chronicle: How Sociology Can Save Itself
  41. Demographic facts for Spring 2024
  42. Media mentions
  43. How a Population Ages or Grows Younger: Classic Ansley Coale paper finally updated
  44. Jonathan Turner is the new co-editor of Theory and Society and his latest diatribe won’t surprise you at all
  45. Quick update on American Sociological Review’s failure to meet current social science standards
  46. Review of Melissa Kearney’s The Two-Parent Privilege (long version)
  47. Untangling Kearney’s single parenthood / teen birth knot

2023 44

  1. Ethical fault lines and empirical assumptions in Israel/Gaza
  2. Researchers: Which one of your skills do you think can’t be done by a machine?
  3. 2023 book (reading) report
  4. Biden to Jews: You will never be safe in America
  5. Does Family Science have an inclusivity problem?
  6. Modern marriage commentary
  7. Turning the tide on marriage is not the same as coasting downstream on teen pregnancy
  8. Child poverty: intergenerational or not, still not a mystery
  9. Partner prospects and the marriage promotion fallacy
  10. Time to stop saying ‘retreat from marriage’ (metabolism update)
  11. Still not talking about Black-White inequality in marriage
  12. Notes on Melissa Kearney’s Two-Parent Privilege Op-Ed
  13. Citizen Scholar rounds a corner (draft complete)
  14. Family Demography seminar syllabus, 2023
  15. The silly season of Brad Wilcox’s new book is upon us
  16. American Sociological Association, in absentia but not silent on open science
  17. Citizen Scholar goes on social media
  18. Twitter changed your brain
  19. Unleash the peer review
  20. Is race structural racism?
  21. Why we need open scholarship, and you can, too
  22. Chetty’s other-father mobility finding: Prove it
  23. Marital Name Change Survey, 2023 edition
  24. UT-Austin sociologist Mark Regnerus, still not an expert, again has testimony thrown out by a federal judge
  25. Data proves Millennials are the worst fake generation
  26. Letter in Science on Peer Review at NIH
  27. Best practice alert: Summarize your results before the literature review
  28. Pew takes welcome steps to wean off fake generations (and some new research)
  29. ChatGPT on sociology’s two-discipline problem
  30. Please stop talking about teen births
  31. US name androgyny hit record high again in 2022
  32. Knowledge is under attack, and “fieldwork” isn’t the problem
  33. Marriage metabolism update
  34. ChatGPT is defaming me and it must be someone’s fault
  35. What your stock photo family says about your tired, regressive ideology
  36. That one gender-based occupational comparison that sticks in my craw
  37. The Three C’s for picking your research topic
  38. US Divorce Rates by Occupation and Gender
  39. American Sociological Association section memberships, 2002-2022
  40. A little Israel / Palestine demography
  41. New grad seminar syllabus: Gender, Work, and Family
  42. Family mass murders account for 41% of deaths
  43. Americans are having sex less often
  44. Patriarchy, On Fire, superfecundation, sexual intercourse, moral acceptability, football fatalities

2022 26

  1. If you click on this you will see that one list of things that is the 2022 year end review
  2. Eternalism and choosing the futures
  3. 2022 Books in Review
  4. US name androgyny at record high
  5. A short paper on the decline of all things marriage in the U.S.
  6. Who wants to be Adele, filling the void with an endless emptiness unchained?
  7. Inequality work product: Visualizing unequal
  8. These are the datasets of our lives (43 of them, anyway)
  9. Review: Divorce, American Style: Fighting for Women’s Economic Citizenship in the Neoliberal Era
  10. Demographic facts for students: 2022
  11. Trigger warnings don’t work (in experimental settings)
  12. Journal peer review times, crowdsourced edition (with your help)
  13. What’s the story? Family demography at the end of progress
  14. Black and White women’s lifetime marriage projections
  15. Science says: Get married at age Whatever You Want (and these are the odds of divorce)
  16. The Takeaway on Gen-Z, rest of the interview edition
  17. The median mother is 30, TV interview edition
  18. Names further down the drain in 2021: Alexa, Karen, and Mary
  19. How do researchers use, and experience, social media?
  20. Overturning Roe and the modern family
  21. The pandemic road, with data
  22. What’s the story (with the future of family demography)
  23. The Love Wins Theory of Peace
  24. Ukraine’s refugee crisis is a demographic crisis, too
  25. Mexico City’s program to distribute ivermectin to 200,000 COVID-19 patients, and the bad science that propped it up
  26. Talking about generations with Jean Twenge

2021 30

  1. 2021 content creation report
  2. Inequality and social change, 2022 pontification edition
  3. Why I’m leaving the American Sociological Association
  4. Inequality heatmaps: marriage and working from home
  5. Sociologists: Don’t embargo your dissertation
  6. Comment on pandemic family plans
  7. Genetics is the truther conspiracy of racial inequality
  8. Demographic facts all students should know right now
  9. Alexa devaluation, cutting room floor edition
  10. Pew response and attempted clarification
  11. Chasing Life podcast on making babies, or not
  12. Now in the Washington Post: The generation labels mean nothing. It’s time to retire them
  13. Hard times and falling fertility in the United States
  14. What the editors of 6000 journals tell us about gender, international diversity, open access, and research transparency
  15. During the pandemic year of 2020, thousands of US parents named their babies Kobe and Gianna
  16. Why you’ll never establish the existence of distinct “generations” in American society
  17. A little ‘generation’ debunking data exercise
  18. Open letter to the Pew Research Center on generation labels
  19. Draft: Open letter to the Pew Research Center on generation labels
  20. In the war between armed police and the unarmed public, the police should unilaterally disarm.
  21. Citizen Scholar: new book under contract
  22. The American Sociological Association is collapsing and its organization is a perpetual stagnation machine
  23. New paper: Baby Bust analysis of 124 counties in 2 states through February 2021
  24. What is life expectancy? (video)
  25. The one-child policy was bad and so is “One Child Nation”
  26. Author meets critic: Margaret K. Nelson, Like A Family
  27. Basic self-promotion
  28. Pandemic Baby Bust situation update
  29. Host, parasite, and failure at the colony level: COVID-19 and the US information ecosystem
  30. Family Demography Seminar syllabus, 2021 edition

2020 43

  1. Policy implications are discussed (often to poor effect, in sociology journals)
  2. Don’t both-sides the war on truth
  3. Data analysis shows Journal Impact Factors in sociology are pretty worthless
  4. COVID-19 mortality rates by race/ethnicity and age
  5. Santa’s magic, children’s wisdom, and inequality (a timeless holiday classic essay!)
  6. Sociologist, scientist? Toward transparency, accountability, and a sharing culture
  7. COVID-19 Baby Bust update and data
  8. Alexa, Hillary, Melania/Ivanka, Donald, Mary, and the top 20 names from last year
  9. The pandemic and the family, demography edition (video)
  10. 5 minutes on the three-parent family
  11. New COVID-19 and Health Disparities lecture
  12. Are pandemic effects on birth rates already detectable?
  13. Race and racism in America (video)
  14. The COVID-19 economic crisis is increasing every kind of inequality (video)
  15. Early pandemic demographic indicators
  16. Measuring inequality, and what the Gini index does (video)
  17. Sambo’s Restaurant: Rise and fall, with Ithaca and Santa Barbara
  18. Demographic facts your students need to know right now (with COVID-19 addendum)
  19. Race/ethnic intermarriage trends, 2008-2018
  20. Pandemic Social Problems, with video and partial reading list
  21. Inequality, family change, and the pandemic (interview with Joanna Pepin)
  22. July data show 2.7 million extra young adults living at home
  23. My green screen teaching setup explained
  24. Families, inequality, and sociology in pandemic times (video)
  25. Why there are 3.1 million extra young adults living at home
  26. Framing social class with sample selection
  27. Where preprints fit in, COVID-19 edition
  28. What happens next
  29. Rural COVID-19 paper peer reviewed. OK?
  30. Graduation remarks, 2020 edition: ‘We need you.’
  31. The COVID-19 epidemic in rural U.S. counties
  32. How big will the drop in weddings be? Big
  33. Maybe you could go to college this fall, but should you?
  34. COVID-19 code, data, codebooks, figures
  35. Pandemic path dependence and the future
  36. Health disparities and COVID-19 lecture
  37. Family violence and abuse lecture, with COVID pandemic discussion
  38. COVID lecture for Social Problems class
  39. Very important social scientist says — wait, Brad Wilcox did what now?
  40. COVID-19 graphs, with data and code
  41. Interview with Judith Stacey on the foundations of feminism in academia
  42. Teaching family sociology
  43. Sci-Hub users cost ASA journals thousands of downloads, and that’s OK

2019 39

  1. The blog’s decade
  2. 11 trends for your New Decade’s holiday party
  3. ASA’s letter against the public interest and our values
  4. The arriving divorce decline
  5. Family diversity, new normal
  6. The continuation of babies
  7. Man woman couple height, updated
  8. New working paper: The rising marriage mortality gap among Whites
  9. Why we need open science in demography, and how we can make it happen
  10. AEI panel on ‘demographic decline’
  11. The Coming Divorce Decline, Socius edition
  12. Against the generations, with video
  13. Two talks on public sociology (with audio)
  14. Divorce fell in one Florida county (and 31 others), and you will totally believe what happened next
  15. Less than half of women with PhDs in survey keep ‘maiden’ names
  16. Take the Marital Name Change Survey
  17. Victory in the Second Circuit on Trump Twitter lawsuit
  18. Tone policing: Am I allowed to put Regnerus, Wilcox, and Hitler in the same headline?
  19. Wilcox plagiarism denial and ethics review
  20. Why aren’t female Charlies killing the name Charles?
  21. Taylor, Kim and the declining sex binary in names
  22. Naomi Wolf and sharing our lanes
  23. Wilcox and colleagues plagiarized my work in the New York Times
  24. Sibship size and educational attainment update
  25. Fertility rate implications explained
  26. Do rich people like bad data tweets about poor people? (Bins, slopes, and graphs edition)
  27. The happiness scamcession
  28. The changing household age range, U.S. 1900-2017
  29. Review of Relational Inequalities: An Organizational Approach, with audio
  30. Let’s raise the legal age of marriage in Maryland
  31. Googling “Lost in Translation” versus “nativity scenes” across state political identities
  32. White children are 2.7-times more likely than Black children to live with a parent who has a PhD
  33. About Charles Murray: Is a White man’s cross burning as disqualifying as blackface?
  34. I spent my semester as an MIT / CREOS Visiting Scholar and it was excellent
  35. Family Demography seminar syllabus
  36. David Henderson wrote 406 blog posts with people in the title and 94% of them were men
  37. How about using half the Bezos fortune to stop US child poverty for one year?
  38. Family estrangement and modern parenting
  39. The rise of Jewish boys’ names in the US

2018 51

  1. Fox News took my quotes out of context and added wrong information
  2. Appearance on Fox News Channel explained
  3. Breaking: 2018 is almost over (year-end report)
  4. Equal-education and wife-more-education married couples don’t have sex less often
  5. New findings: The widening political divide over science
  6. Wives’ share of couple income update
  7. Family diversity for a marketing audience
  8. I read dozens of books this year and the resulting list will surprise and delight you
  9. Gender segregated sociology today
  10. Decadally-biased marriage recall in the American Community Survey
  11. Predicted divorce decline rolls on
  12. Survey says 23% of Whites think Whites are more intelligent than Blacks
  13. Proposal for ASA to adopt TOP Guidelines and Open Science Badges
  14. Breaking Millennial divorce drop news explained
  15. The coming divorce decline
  16. Demographic facts your students should know cold in 2018
  17. Family sociology supplements for Fall 2018
  18. Amend your ASA/Sage author agreement!
  19. Michael Kimmel’s American Sociological Association Award
  20. Visualizing family modernization, 1900-2016
  21. Legal risks in reporting on academic sexual harassment
  22. Are middle children going extinct?
  23. The Death of Truth rings true
  24. On my 10 year cancerversary, medical assistance for migrants
  25. How conservatism makes peace with Trump
  26. What if you left your kid alone with YouTube
  27. That thing where you have a lot of little graphs (single-parent edition)
  28. Against Trump’s family separation policy
  29. Actually unblocked by Trump, as DOJ appeals ruling
  30. More marriage promotion failure evidence
  31. Breaking: Matt Richtel book homepage bogus statistic removed
  32. We won our First Amendment lawsuit against President Trump
  33. Fertility trends explained, 2017 edition
  34. The failure of the success sequence
  35. Breaking: In 2017 names, Donald, Alexa, and Mary plummet; Malia booms
  36. Who are you gonna marry? That one big assumption marriage promotion gets totally wrong
  37. Theology majors marry each other a lot, but business majors don’t (and other tales of BAs and marriage)
  38. Unequal marriage markets for Black and White women
  39. Abortion is not a holocaust, and feminism is not about convenience
  40. Let’s improve the ASA/Sage journal author agreement
  41. Review essay: Public engagement and the influence imperative
  42. How I engaged my way to excellent research success and you can too
  43. No, early marriage is not more common for college graduates
  44. Trump Twitter suit argued in federal court
  45. Mark Regnerus to be promoted to full professor at UT Austin
  46. Visiting Israel, with demography (this is not sustainable edition)
  47. Campus sexual harassment coverage, UMD circa 2003
  48. For social relationships outside marriage
  49. Philip Cohen’s ASA Publications Committee platform
  50. Notes for a review of “Cheap Sex,” by Mark Regnerus
  51. Data analysis: Are older newlyweds saving marriage?

2017 52

  1. Family Inequality year-end review
  2. A miracle of wrong: Hanna Rosin error reborn in Mark Regnerus book
  3. Book gift ideas for the Family Inequality reader
  4. When the campus sexual harassment policy doesn’t work
  5. Sexual harassment: Et tu, Sociology?
  6. Interrogating Ethnography comments
  7. Sources for Interrogating Ethnography conference
  8. The amazing lack of gender progress in Hollywood, Weinstein and not
  9. New books on the block: Enduring Bonds, The Family (2e), Contexts (3e)
  10. Craptastic
  11. Sociology’s culture of trust, don’t verify
  12. Who’s happy in marriage? (Not just rich, White, religious men, but kind of)
  13. Hitting for the cycle in Trump land
  14. Science finds tiny things nowadays (Malia edition)
  15. On artificially intelligent gaydar
  16. Teach it! Family syllabus supplements for Fall 2017
  17. Donald is not the biggest loser (among winning and losing names)
  18. Women’s Equality Day earnings data stuff and suffrage note
  19. Families and Modern Social Theory, revised syllabus
  20. Demographic facts your students should know cold
  21. Sixteen minutes on The Tumbleweed Society
  22. Job turnover and divorce (preconference preprint)
  23. Philip Cohen at 50, having been 14 in 1981
  24. Let’s use award incentives to promote open scholarship (at ASA this year!)
  25. Made in America, by immigrants: children
  26. See you in court, Mr. President (about that Twitter account blocking)
  27. A step toward civilization (and have more children), Shanghai edition
  28. Teaching Black family history in sociology, student resistance edition
  29. Trump blocked me on Twitter and that violates the Constitution
  30. 2016 U.S. population pyramid, with Baby Boom
  31. Intermarriage rates relative to diversity
  32. Births to 40-year-olds are less common but a greater share than in 1960
  33. Now-you-know data graphic series
  34. New data show change in the class (identity) structure
  35. Marriage update: less divorce, and less sex
  36. African American marital status by age, Du Bois replication edition
  37. Kids these days really know how to throw off a narrative on gender and families
  38. ‘Start a family’ started to mean ‘have children’ more recently than you think
  39. Prince Charles and Princess Diana height situation explained
  40. Update on SocArXiv and social science without walls
  41. More bad reporting on texting and driving, and new data
  42. Fertility trends and the myth of Millennials
  43. Two examples of why “Millennials” is wrong
  44. 8 years later: Children of the Deported Wonder, “Who Gets A Family?”
  45. How low is too low for divorce?
  46. Family Demography seminar syllabus
  47. Race/ethnicity and slacking at work
  48. Breaking: Trump has terrible judgment
  49. How I choose sides like it’s 1934
  50. Family syllabus supplements for Spring 2017
  51. Couple fact patterns about sexuality and attitudes
  52. Sex segregation propositions in 140 characters

2016 77

  1. Family Inequality year-end review
  2. Is there sex selection among Asian immigrants in the US?
  3. Advice for and about ASA
  4. No paper, no news (#NoPaperNoNews)
  5. Why Heritage is wrong on the new Census race/ethnicity question
  6. My, what dimorphic parents you have!
  7. How do Black-White parents identify their children?
  8. Electoral representation by demographic group
  9. ’16 and Pregnant’ and less so
  10. Don’t flatter yourself, Trump’s America
  11. Racist, sexist, and anti-Semitic jokes in Trump land
  12. Vasectomy reversal, divorce, and American optimism
  13. Don’t think economic anxiety is rational and racial anxiety is not
  14. The liberalization of divorce attitudes proceeds apace
  15. The new Wilcox thing is complete bologna and/or just dishonest
  16. Gender on the Diane Rehm show in September
  17. Cause and effect on myopia
  18. Black men raping White women: BJS’s Table 42 problem
  19. Not-too-racist Whites of America: Do you want to be that person?
  20. Poverty, marriage, and single mother update
  21. Polarization written on the body Google
  22. Teen birth rate low but Bible remains a concern
  23. Do we get tenure for this?
  24. Ruth Sidel, appreciated
  25. Get your dependency ratio off my lawn
  26. What, my workers? (Hershey park edition)
  27. Racist pile on, Storified
  28. Civility in the swelter (Hershey Park edition)
  29. 81 countries made more progress than the USA on women’s representation
  30. Brave new racist nativist political world
  31. Interview: Independence, uncertainty, defamilialization
  32. SocArXiv in development
  33. On Asian-American earnings
  34. Explain to me again how marriage is the problem here
  35. The fathers behind teen births (or, statistical memes and motivated blind trust)
  36. Black women really do have high college enrollment rates (at age 25+)
  37. Life table says divorce rate is 52.7%
  38. No Black women are not the “most educated” group in the US
  39. Why male and female ‘breadwinners’ aren’t equivalent (in one chart)
  40. NYT’s Richtel traffic hype soars at historic rate
  41. Perspective on sociology’s academic hierarchy and debate
  42. Transgender discrimination is sex discrimination
  43. Eran Shor responds
  44. Haskins / Sawhill Moynihan Prize: The Family Inequality file
  45. How broken is our system (hit me with that figure again edition)
  46. International adoption to the US has fallen 75%
  47. For (not against) a better publishing model
  48. Why can’t the texting-panic establishment handle the truth?
  49. Delayed parenting and anti-poverty policy
  50. Old people are getting older and younger
  51. I don’t give activists unsolicited advice, except: don’t talk to the police
  52. Families and modern social theory
  53. US policy fails at reducing child poverty because it aims to fix the poor
  54. More on racist Trump supporters, and My 3Qs
  55. Trump supporters don’t like Muslims
  56. The one big thing that might doom Trump in November
  57. How the left can win the general election
  58. Tell me why it’s not racist to oppose Black Oscar categories
  59. Looks like racist Southern Whites like Trump
  60. The vast majority of small campaign donors
  61. When is the target a community?
  62. How to steal 80 million paywalled papers
  63. A party like it’s 2014 (marriage equality edition)
  64. Has your marriage lasted 50 years? Congratulations, you’re old
  65. Marriage and gender inequality in 124 countries
  66. Marriage promotion snake oil tour
  67. Basic self promotion
  68. Family Inequality week in review
  69. When the map says race but all you can talk about is fatherhood
  70. The things I read (7 days a storm edition)
  71. Family Inequality weekly link roundup
  72. Thought leader for a day: Families in uncertain times
  73. Trump facts (demography and demagoguery)
  74. Why I snarked on a 538 blog post (and I’m sorry)
  75. Maternal age and infant mortality paper forthcoming
  76. Book review: Labor’s Love Lost by Andrew Cherlin
  77. Must-know current demographic facts

2015 92

  1. Year-end report
  2. What if Reason didn’t write the NYT coverage of Oberlin students?
  3. Once more, with feeling: Santa’s magic, children’s wisdom, and inequality
  4. Trump’s manhandling
  5. Visualizing attitude differences
  6. No, poverty is not a mysterious, unknowable, negative-spiral loop
  7. Journal self-citation practices revealed
  8. Is the New York Times trapped in an economics echo chamber?
  9. Mary lives? (You’re welcome edition)
  10. Update: Adjusted divorce risk, 2008-2014
  11. Divorce rate plunge continues
  12. Sociology: “I love you.” Economics: “I know.”
  13. Book review: One Marriage Under God
  14. That time when your research is used to justify ripping a baby from the arms of its loving adoptive parents
  15. University paternalism and the outwardly-focused student movement
  16. Age composition change accounts for about half of the Case and Deaton mortality finding
  17. Marriage matters
  18. I overspoke myself on Twitter
  19. Regnerus has the callous disregard for poor single mothers and their children, but doesn’t get policy
  20. I knew that marriage-is-good-for-the-economy thing sounded familiar
  21. Groups of people with more income are richer, Wilcox credulity edition
  22. Quick correction on that 90-percent-of-faculty-are-White thing
  23. Shine a light on journal self-citation inflation
  24. Our broken peer review system, in one saga
  25. NYT magazine infographic: not just dumb and annoying
  26. Weathering and delayed births, get your norms off my body edition
  27. How about we stop moralizing and end child poverty tomorrow?
  28. Pick your potion, Dalai Lama and Pope Francis edition
  29. Lifetime chance of marrying for Black and White women
  30. Grandparents day: Still no need to send a card
  31. People without freedom update
  32. Selfie culture, tourism, and the challenge of the authentic self
  33. Sex ratios as if not everyone is a college graduate
  34. Comment on Goffman’s survey, American Sociological Review rejection edition
  35. Conservatives don’t have happier marriages
  36. Why it’s rotten to tell someone they’re poor because of when they had their kids
  37. That thing about Republican marriages being happier (isn’t true)
  38. Marriage equality is official now that it’s in The Family textbook
  39. Does doing difference deny dominance? (vocal fry, sports sex testing, and resting bitch face edition)
  40. How we really can study divorce using just five questions and a giant sample
  41. That Sunday New York Times Style section trend piece
  42. No, you should get married in your late 40s (just kidding)
  43. The latest get-married-young thing tells you all you need to know
  44. Goffman dissertation followup
  45. The U.S. government asked 2 million Americans one simple question, and their answers will shock you
  46. Colorado leads drop in teen birth rate, 2008-2013
  47. The total fertility rate, with instructions, in 9 minutes
  48. To tell the truth (right-wing front edition)
  49. Things are getting better/worse, and we’re not going to take it anymore
  50. The scientific racism in Roof’s statement (can we get Wade and Murray on the record?)
  51. On Goffman’s survey
  52. Gender and the sociology faculty
  53. Upshot sells Wilcox, but I’m not buying
  54. More fathers married when their first child is born? Probably not
  55. Proposed rule change for the American Sociological Association Dissertation Award
  56. Social class divides the futures of high school students
  57. Sociologists asking me questions
  58. On the ropes (Goffman review)
  59. New data on gender-segregated sociology
  60. Stop me before I fake again
  61. Cohabitation in the marriage trend
  62. Demographic Intelligence, low bar edition
  63. Updated age education birth figures
  64. Why are women with advanced degrees having more children?
  65. Is it me or is the liberal media elite getting more tone-deaf?
  66. How random error and dirty data made Regnerus even wronger than we thought
  67. Book reviews: Sex & Unisex, among others
  68. Marriage promotion and the myth of teen pregnancy
  69. Not all trigger warnings are the same
  70. Regnerus responds
  71. 7 facts about the gender gap, for #EqualPayDay
  72. Who’s your marriage market?
  73. Research on teen crashes confirms that reporters selling books on phone risks hype phone risks
  74. Vox interview on the Moynihan chilling effect
  75. Getting serious about promoting marriage to end poverty
  76. Evolved: Nicholas Wade critique trilogy complete
  77. Is the Moynihan-backlash chilling effect a myth?
  78. The marriage movement has failed (long live the marriage movement), Blankenhorn edition
  79. 50 years after the Moynihan report: Hell in a hand basket?
  80. A few ways Isabel Sawhill is wrong on single mothers
  81. Bogus versus extremely low-quality, Sullins edition
  82. Quick note on Patricia Arquette and White feminism
  83. Color and the making of gender in early childhood
  84. Children in same-sex parent families, dead horse edition
  85. Exceptions overwhelm the rules in economics
  86. Some politicians lie (Maryland edition)
  87. Charter, private, and wealthy schools lead California vaccine exemptions
  88. Off gender-script art
  89. On Contexts: Sociology unfound
  90. Cherlin interview, with my unsolicited responses
  91. Syllabus supplements for spring family sociology
  92. Herculean dimorphism

2014 120

  1. Year-end report and most popular posts, 2014
  2. The difference fundamentalists make
  3. Santa’s magic, children’s wisdom, and inequality
  4. Women in parliaments, by income
  5. Why I called it The Family, and what that has to do with Cosby
  6. Fewer births and divorces, more violence: how the recession affected the American family
  7. Campus sexual assault op-ed
  8. Distracted driving talk
  9. First look: 2013 divorce rates show big drop
  10. Six grueling demographic indicators of Detroit’s decline (and some pictures)
  11. Telling the boys and girls how to tell the boys from the girls
  12. Marriage rates among people with disabilities (save the data edition)
  13. Certain death? Black-White death dispersions
  14. Divorce, animated
  15. So you want to know the Asian divorce rate (save the ACS marital events edition)
  16. Policy, politics, and promoting education versus marriage
  17. Top 25 cities for Millennial divorce (save the American Community Survey marital history and events questions edition)
  18. Repeated misinterpretation is not causation
  19. Turns out marriage and income inequality go pretty well together
  20. Data snapshot: Married before
  21. 9 uses of “the ways in which” that should be replaced by “how”
  22. Pregnancy discrimination and the gender gap, involuntary job choice edition
  23. How (and how much) academics talk about inequality, in one chart
  24. Video series debut: The Story Behind the Numbers
  25. Life expectancy update, disparity edition
  26. This word ‘generation,’ I do not think it means what you think it means
  27. The persistence of gender differences, Catholic furor edition
  28. Why you can’t understand the texting and driving problem in one chart, in one chart
  29. The number one cause of traffic fatalities
  30. To know poverty proportions, know your terms (Fox News edition)
  31. Mildly altruistic blog post rooted in the brain
  32. Survivor bias and the 92% of Southern Black men who support spanking
  33. Syllabus supplements for fall family sociology
  34. Adjectives for children’s chronic conditions
  35. Diversity is the new normal
  36. Christian Smith responds to my review of The Sacred Project
  37. Immigrant health paradox update
  38. My rejection of the National Marriage Project’s “Before ‘I Do'”
  39. ASA meeting Twitter network graph
  40. Justice for Sterilization Victims update (survivor edition)
  41. Doing math one-handed? Inequality and the marriage problem (#asa14)
  42. Post-summer reading list: The Family, gender, race, economics, gayborhoods, insecurity and overwhelmed
  43. Marriage, divorce, remarriage, age, education (Coontz tabs edition)
  44. Arthur Brooks’s worldliness is showing
  45. New York City police killings: 1964 (life) – 1989 (art) – 2014 (life)
  46. Border fences make unequal neighbors
  47. James Wright’s recounting of the Regnerus review process wasn’t true
  48. It’s modernity, stupid (Book review of The Sacred Project of American Sociology, by Christian Smith)
  49. Poverty is not just for single mothers
  50. Home stretch
  51. Nicholas Wade followup, deeper dive edition
  52. Reviewing Nicholas Wade’s troublesome book
  53. Deciphering a well-told data story, cars are good for kids edition
  54. Movie dimorphism update: How to Train Your Dragon 2 edition
  55. Final proof there is no human tragedy Brad Wilcox will not exploit in order to promote marriage
  56. What a recovery looks like (with population growth by age)
  57. Changing Hispanic racial identity, or not
  58. What drives the rise of stay at home fathers?
  59. The World That Sabta Made (+ 5 years)
  60. US teen birth rates remain high, and they’re not falling for the reasons you’ve heard
  61. Misogyny and masculinity, less edited
  62. Global inequality, within and between countries
  63. Check that: Most marrying people are remarrying above age 31
  64. 6 family correlations that will blow your mind or break your heart, and that probably aren’t spurious
  65. Most people marrying over age 35 have been married before
  66. Education, not income, drives Piketty searches
  67. International adoption, rise and fall
  68. The sky is falling because of feminist biology, Factual Feminist edition
  69. Sexual minority counts
  70. Getting beyond how the ‘Factual Feminist’ is wrong about the prevalence of rape
  71. The most comprehensive analysis ever of the gender of New York Times writers
  72. Ridiculous NY Times Magazine data graphics
  73. Michigan Black college completion falters (with consequences)
  74. Does gay marriage make straight men hate children?
  75. How well do teen test scores predict adult income?
  76. How many WWII war brides are still living?
  77. What do doctors, lawyers, police, and librarians Google?
  78. Response from Supporting Healthy Marriage supporters, with responses
  79. This ‘Supporting Healthy Marriage,’ I do not think it means what you think it means
  80. Obama economic adviser on marriage and the gender gap
  81. Different divorce rates
  82. What was I supposed to do, not report the results?
  83. Family Inequality wins Charm Quark
  84. Michigan same-sex marriage case, entirely unbelievable edition
  85. What they say about race when they don’t say anything about race and poverty
  86. New sociology grad student research agenda: Pros and cons
  87. The blogger will be heard, Michigan trial edition
  88. Millennial, save thyself
  89. Michigan gay marriage case, Tuesday with Mitch Albom edition
  90. People who believe in hell are allowed to raise children?
  91. Since time immemorial, Regnerus on marriage edition
  92. Does sleeping with a guy on the first date make him less likely to call back?
  93. Peak women, labor force participation edition
  94. Is the price of sex too damn low?
  95. ‘Gay marriage hurts kids,’ zombie edition
  96. Quote that sociologist, 124 in the Times edition
  97. What’s in a ratio? Teen birth and marriage edition
  98. Open thread on the way some people, right, sort of really talk these days
  99. Why are only 29% of NYTimes.com front page authors women?
  100. Does happy marriage cause happy marriage?
  101. Especially if they’re Black: A shortage of men for poor women to marry
  102. Who’s worried about abstinence?
  103. Flip that effect: gender gap, returns to education, marriage premium
  104. Silver linings divorce trend
  105. Divorce drop and rebound: paper in the news
  106. How to illustrate a .61 relationship with a .93 figure: Chetty and Wilcox edition
  107. Where is race in the Chetty et al. mobility paper?
  108. The less things change, the more they stay the same: Michigan edition
  109. Who likes public intellectuals?
  110. Change scatter plots
  111. Marriage promotion: That’s some fine print
  112. Brad Wilcox tries to save saving marriage for the marriage movement
  113. Here it is, your moment of White
  114. That marriage-reduces-poverty-82-percent statistic
  115. This is what Anthony Kennedy was talking about
  116. Academic puffery watch: ‘Utilizing’ edition
  117. The War on Poverty at 50: Swimming against the tide
  118. State of Utah falsely claims same-sex marriage ban makes married, man-woman parenting more likely
  119. Divorce recession drop rebound, with the 2012 rate
  120. Sociology citing Becker

2013 142

  1. Inequality, mobility, single mothers, and race: comment
  2. Year-end report, 2013
  3. Percent female among bylined New York Times website authors, circa 3 p.m. on December 24, 2013
  4. Can animated boys and girls be (almost) the same size?
  5. Homogamy tipping point: breaking the curve edition
  6. Baloney data detective: Wilcox school shooters edition
  7. Disney’s dimorphism, ‘Help! My eyeball is bigger than my wrist!’ edition
  8. Blame the poor, “We tried generosity and it just doesn’t work” edition
  9. Gender devaluation, in one comparison
  10. To Prevent Poverty, Reduce the Penalty for Single-Motherhood
  11. Race, class, and gender in one chart (just kidding)
  12. Choose that job?
  13. Hell in a handbasket, or the democratization of divorce?
  14. Op-ed plus: Check the facts edition
  15. Op-Ed plus: Gender composition of college majors
  16. Diverging responses to family inequality
  17. Fewer children, more employed women: International edition
  18. Gender stall: Who wants a female boss edition
  19. Girls braced for beauty
  20. Gender Gap Statistic Gets it from All Sides
  21. Maybe the recession increased violence after all
  22. Suzanne Bianchi
  23. What’s with the historical trend juxtapositions?
  24. Economics watch, check that basketball evidence edition
  25. Is the rising tide of falling crime driven by fatherlessness?
  26. Marriage makes Wilcox richer, how to lie with asterisks edition
  27. Home birth is more dangerous. Discuss.
  28. Are so many people giving birth while driving and texting that most of the deaths are canceled out?
  29. Obstacles to healthcare aren’t cheap either
  30. The remarkable centrality of Unequal Childhoods
  31. Does history repeat itself, but with more porn?
  32. The Douglas Allen study of Canadian children of gay/lesbian parents is worthless
  33. How many Black scholars does it take to have any Black scholars?
  34. Response to “Diverging Destinies Revisited”
  35. Regnerus delivers deceptive dialogue to delighted devotees
  36. Breaking through the Wilcoxian ceiling of nonmarital births
  37. Please make it stop: Wilcox marriage baloney edition
  38. Right-wing family watch: New kid paydirt edition
  39. Survey says: U.S. marriages are getting happier
  40. Early childhood education is good for mothers, too
  41. De-Sexing the Labor Market, 1965 edition
  42. Two notes on the poverty report
  43. Why I don’t defend the sex-versus-gender distinction
  44. Correct that error, Hanna Rosin edition
  45. Is the end of men to reality what one-third is to 18 percent?
  46. OK, how about the gender gap, within occupations, for people working 50+ hours?
  47. That number you want, it is not precise (women’s labor force edition)
  48. Are White women high school dropouts getting sicker?
  49. Percent describing themselves as “lower class” hits 40-year high
  50. Parents live in the gendered world of their children, too
  51. Black-White Polls on Race
  52. Time with young children
  53. Cell phones don’t kill people, cars kill people
  54. How the response to Regnerus homogenized LGBT families
  55. What’s been queered?
  56. Beyond Regnerus
  57. Opting out and jumping in
  58. It’s not the one-child policy, repeated correction edition
  59. The banal, insidious sexism of Smurfette
  60. Regnerus Affair timeline, with maze
  61. Why does the news turn social science into garbage?
  62. Black is the new Black
  63. The declining birthrate doesn’t spell disaster
  64. Fact pattern: Women’s life expectancy advantage
  65. Life expectancy, life disparity
  66. Paul Amato on reviewing Regnerus
  67. Who’s following Zimmerman and Martin, and to where?
  68. Who’s Afraid of Young Black Men?
  69. The conversation about race next time
  70. Teachers might help students finish high school
  71. Paul Amato, Regnerus postscript
  72. Fundamentally opposed to science?
  73. You got your immigrant in my interbreeding!
  74. The Supreme Court Kills the ‘Gay Marriage Is Bad for Kids’ Argument
  75. Tipping pointed
  76. Family Inequality marriage forecast contest
  77. Ethnic vehicles, White edition
  78. Wilcox clarifies (or not)
  79. Correction: Black and White marriage pools
  80. Responses on fatherhood: hormones, science and god
  81. Fatherhood’s transformations: What if someone checked the facts?
  82. What current demographic facts do you need to know?
  83. Are 50% of college graduates unemployed or underemployed?
  84. Marriage is declining globally: Can you say that?
  85. Education-gender earnings crossover
  86. Gender equality: Family egalitarianism follows workplace opportunity
  87. Off topic: My 5-year cancerversary
  88. We can’t build our social system around marriage anymore
  89. For married mothers, breadsharing is much more common than breadwinning
  90. Equality, inequality (let’s call the whole thing off?)
  91. That economists’ paper about gender inequality, marriage and divorce
  92. More married mothers earn more than their husbands
  93. Does declining marriage explain rising suicide rates for old men, too? (Trick question.)
  94. Marriage is going down, so what does Kanye West have to do with it?
  95. Be a man, a Morehouse Man — and treat your boyfriend right
  96. Letter to graduate students: Broaden yourself
  97. Mary free fall continues
  98. Intersectionality interrupted
  99. Homogamy tipping point update: between elections edition
  100. The Connection Between Unemployment and Unmarried Parents
  101. If the National Marriage Project told you it was going to rain, would you bring an umbrella?
  102. How many people should die waiting for citizenship? 319,462?
  103. What is ‘nationally representative,’ and did Regnerus have it?
  104. Women’s Employment and the Decline in Marriage Are No Longer Related
  105. Married women learning that paid work pays
  106. Father care: The more things don’t change, the more they stay the same
  107. Educational endogamy (a good Princeton word), ca. 2011
  108. A Simple, Legal Way to Help Stop Employment Discrimination
  109. What victory looks like, or not
  110. Gender and family time: change and stall visualized
  111. Steubenbille, Ohio, USA
  112. Football, military, occupational segregation: Rape culture
  113. All opposed? (to family change)
  114. I hope Charles Murray’s gay friends also have some better friends
  115. People with disabilities are more likely to get divorced
  116. “No differences” survives the Regnerus paper
  117. ‘More managerial than intellectual’: How right-wing Christian money brought us the Regnerus study
  118. A one-percent-meme-less International Women’s Day?
  119. What are we becoming a nation of now?
  120. What is the logic of marriage denial?
  121. Can the marriage movement survive gay marriage?
  122. American Sociological Association releases SCOTUS brief
  123. Pediatrics essay on child wellbeing in the homogamy debate
  124. The best they’ve got for DOMA?
  125. Book review: The Rise of Women, by DiPrete and Buchmann
  126. Data visualizations: Is U.S. society becoming more diverse?
  127. Gender wage gap, 2012 edition
  128. Let’s Not Panic Over Women With More Education Having Fewer Kids
  129. Jonathan Last could live with barefoot-and-pregnant
  130. Is low fertility America’s problem?
  131. The couple-height story
  132. Why taller-wife couples are so rare
  133. Gender discrimination bills ranked
  134. All hands dimorphic: Gnomeo and Juliet edition
  135. How can we save the church from divorce?
  136. Twitter mission statement
  137. Teaching family inequality: Some posts by subject
  138. Moral rules, ruling morals (race, class and gender edition)
  139. Yes, mothers and fathers still exist
  140. Online dating: efficiency, inequality and anxiety
  141. Do people working work in working families?
  142. Take it from the Pope

2012 137

  1. Year-end stats
  2. What do Jews Google on Christmas?
  3. Why do anti-gay people (maybe, possibly) beat their children?
  4. When regular old mothers aren’t old-enough looking
  5. Births to mothers in their forties are less common now than in the old days
  6. Poverty Poses a Bigger Risk to Pregnancy Than Age
  7. Signs of the times, mass shooting edition
  8. More Women Are Doctors and Lawyers Than Ever—but Progress Is Stalling
  9. Big name drops in the news
  10. Hit song, hit name
  11. How many prisoners grew up with both parents?
  12. Why Don’t Parents Name Their Daughters Mary Anymore?
  13. Conservatives doubling down on single mothers and crime
  14. Telling the future off
  15. Single Moms Can’t Be Scapegoated for the Murder Rate Anymore
  16. Fruit cup rivalry redux
  17. Thankful for families, or not
  18. End of Men conference video online
  19. Not your feminist grandmother’s patriarchy
  20. The Fempire can’t handle the truth?
  21. Obama Top Chef Romney Founding Fathers
  22. Demography and destiny for voters
  23. Have we passed the homogamy tipping point?
  24. Converging toward equality (When a tipping point disappoints)
  25. Have Obama haters lost traction?
  26. Word signs of the times
  27. Women’s Economic Dominance: Is It Really Inevitable?
  28. Family Inequality now on The Atlantic (Sexes)
  29. U.S. women’s labor force participation stalled while others’ hasn’t
  30. Gun Google searches and suicide
  31. When women earn more but wives earn less (Mundy/Rosin edition)
  32. Guns dividing America (Google edition)
  33. Debate debate on single mothers and crime
  34. Women at the top: comment for Orgtheory
  35. Video segment on Regnerus and divorce studies
  36. End of Men conference in Boston
  37. BREAKING: Men seize power in Alexander City, Alabama
  38. Who knew? (cuz Hanna Rosin said so edition)
  39. Fertility bottoms out, reflects unemployment
  40. Are women becoming the violenter sex? (Hanna Rosin edition)
  41. Debunking End of Men, “Myth of Male Decline” edition
  42. Yo, how big is that yogurt bucket?
  43. Alabama matriarchy (debunking The End of Men edition)
  44. Is sameness the kiss of marital demise?
  45. Which comes first, getting divorced or Googling “vasectomy reversal”?
  46. And the 2011 divorce rate is…
  47. Debunking Hanna Rosin, stop The End of Rape story edition
  48. Mystery solved? Why “women in their 20s” earn more
  49. Fact-checking David Brooks, citing Hanna Rosin edition
  50. End-of-Men-Richer-Sex reality check, 40 years of pants edition
  51. Quick book review: The Price of Inequality
  52. Where did we go wrong, or did we? (love and sex edition)
  53. Hanna Rosin reality check, part whatever
  54. Work-family links for male bosses
  55. Strat theorists, ngram waves
  56. Stratification / Inequality syllabus, 2012 edition
  57. Incarceration’s contribution to infant mortality
  58. The disparate lives of fifth graders
  59. Regnerus study controversy guide
  60. Exaggerating gender changes
  61. Family Inequality, soon to be refreshed
  62. Births bottoming out?
  63. The price of parenting pressure, and a step back
  64. Single mothers’ hardships
  65. This thing about wives as breadwinnners
  66. The Regnerus study goes to court, trailing briefs
  67. A lot of juggling metaphors in the air
  68. LGBT teens made homeless
  69. Work-family decisions, in person
  70. Jobs and repeals
  71. Shame and pity: Headless obesity and pitiful starvation
  72. Let a hundred churches bloom
  73. 200 researchers respond to Regnerus paper
  74. Health inequality recap
  75. Do Asians in the U.S. have high incomes?
  76. Bad science on top of stigma for lesbian and gay parents
  77. Time travel: Regnerus study timeline suggests superhuman abilities
  78. Recession studies, academic job security edition
  79. TOTN: Challenges for single parents
  80. One case of very similar publications, with some implications and suggestions
  81. Gaydar study calibration
  82. DOMA can’t survive rationality
  83. 12 minutes in segregationland
  84. Tangled up in Disney’s dimorphism
  85. Male nursing explodes: from 9% to 10%
  86. Gender gap, 2011
  87. Fertility forecast for free?
  88. Tripping on tipping points
  89. Women and climate change (good point, coupla bad facts)
  90. (Gu)Estimating the size of the LGBT population
  91. Harriet Presser
  92. Hello, you (shall we walk in a sample’s shoes?)
  93. Recession divorce paper preview
  94. Flattering motherhood, still
  95. At crunch time, what do students tweet?
  96. Gender of kids, gender of parents (via color preference)
  97. NYC pre-K G&T testing off the charts, ugh edition
  98. Why are mothers becoming moms?
  99. Abstinence, Antichrist and teen births
  100. Who’s to judge an expert on marriage? (Blankenhorn’s CV padding)
  101. Sell that (stale) narrative [off topic]
  102. What women own: U.S. business edition
  103. Cash welfare down, food stamps, disability, marriage fiasco and extreme poverty up
  104. Black is not a color
  105. How the 1% meme obscures global inequality
  106. Should every sociologist blog?
  107. National Organization for Marriage: delusional and hateful?
  108. Is Charles Murray a sociologist?
  109. The richer sex (is men)
  110. Nice graphic, bad info in gender inequality infographic
  111. A little geographic and demographic awareness might squelch the 1% meme
  112. Odds in the news (e.g., mass murder, cavities)
  113. Pounding the news with Maslow’s hammer
  114. International Women’s Day breathes new life into the 1% meme
  115. What if women were in charge?
  116. Work product: Women’s ethnic immigration education work patterns
  117. Poverty, single mothers and mobility
  118. Home care workers, uncared for
  119. Pink and blue kid(s)
  120. Charles Murray on his propaganda playing field
  121. Divorcing our way to prosperity
  122. Marriage rights, writ wrong
  123. Graphing poverty rates and numbers, cutting room floor edition
  124. Poll: What do you call homogamous marriage?
  125. Grad Seminar: Gender, Work, and Family Syllabus
  126. Maryland’s marriage rights bottleneck
  127. Googling racism, votes for Obama, and population composition
  128. Gingrich’s anti-Semitic code words, too
  129. Disciplining cultural minorities: 1960s housing guidelines for Inuit families
  130. Twin peaks of intergenerational mobility
  131. Undoing gender math stereotypes
  132. A little shecovery
  133. A conversation with me
  134. Unfreedom update: 2010 incarceration stats
  135. Recent reads: Brazil, China, blogging and the Black middle class
  136. Google correlations review
  137. Family Inequality Twitter follower word cloud

2011 140

  1. Family Inequality’s 2011 top 10
  2. When Gingrich used Black poverty to hype the coming apocalypse
  3. NPR on divorce, recession and violence
  4. Shotgun pistol grip, meet tofu marinade (Merry Christmas!)
  5. Publication alert: Gender and Race Inequality in Management
  6. Marriage, since when? (New Pew report)
  7. Warning: Personal electronic device ban approaching
  8. Church saves marriage, and produces curious coefficients
  9. MaddowColbert vs. FoxLimbaugh, Google edition
  10. Gingrich channels William Julius Wilson?
  11. Mancession hecovery update
  12. What do commuters Google?
  13. Study shows home births are not as safe. So?
  14. 2011 books for the Family Inequality reader in your life
  15. Recession fertility update: unemployment story strengthens
  16. Chinese divorce, modern style
  17. Chinese: Maternal grandmothers, outside women
  18. Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood: Time for some results
  19. Pitching your work to CW Mills
  20. Prescriptions for poverty
  21. Top 50 posts in the last 12 months
  22. News from No Family For You
  23. Play, supervision and pressured parenting
  24. Divorce by race/ethnicity and education, 2010
  25. That giant gobbling sound (is the 1% eating more and more of the cookies)
  26. Gender integration’s lost decade
  27. Single parents, crime and incarceration
  28. Mid-course corrections
  29. Marriage promotion, farce or fraud?
  30. Crying out for more babies
  31. Google searches foretold Census report of divorce increase?
  32. Google index of poor mothers’ pain
  33. Dependency futures
  34. High marks for Census
  35. How much wealth for women? More than 1%
  36. Little income distribution graph
  37. Three things about poverty and family structure
  38. Follow the bouncing 1% meme…
  39. Has the recession increased family violence?
  40. What it’s all worth, in work-life cash
  41. Cohabitation as an inertia problem
  42. A different media-statistic-trend divorce story
  43. ASA Job Bank, supply/demand, gender
  44. When there’s housework to do…
  45. Divorce, divorce studies
  46. Cohabitation dustup followup thoughts
  47. This cohabitation-causes-bad-parenting thing
  48. Marketplace multigenerational
  49. Warning: What do smokers Google?
  50. Profile word cloud reveals familyunequal followers
  51. Extended households, extended version
  52. Read it and weep : Demography I syllabus
  53. Is fertility ready to rebound?
  54. NPR reports on a report
  55. Is it a “marriage problem”?
  56. Birth of a headline
  57. No family-caregiver-citizenship for you
  58. Smurfette? How do they get away with this stuff?
  59. Breastfeeding promotion here and there
  60. Stuff White people Google
  61. Employment unequal
  62. Who’s who in the blended family, circa 1886
  63. Divorce, handguns, Obama, Top Chef, Tea Party
  64. Civil rights bonanza (demographic fiasco)
  65. Do explicit, enforceable policies matter?
  66. Health paradox, illustrated
  67. Headed toward equality
  68. Giving men choices (at the urinal)
  69. Birthweight and infant mortality inequality
  70. Who’s teaching creationism to kids?
  71. Global women’s progress report
  72. Love is the strongest leash?
  73. Married, with longevity
  74. Would Michele Bachmann leave the future behind?
  75. Marriage Equality Action
  76. No family for you
  77. Marriage drop now, divorce drop later?
  78. Unemployment’s greenjobs porn Google mind?
  79. Family consequences of the drug war
  80. From there to here, Obama to ultrasound
  81. Googling divorce more
  82. Gender segregated sociology
  83. Recession, divorce?
  84. W. Bradford Wilcox responds
  85. Distorting data on divorce at the National Marriage Project
  86. Find that food stamp spike graphic meme
  87. Uneven development, uneven sex ratios
  88. Family to philosophy
  89. The child’s individuality, dated
  90. Don’t sugar coat it
  91. Children beget happiness, eventually
  92. Visualizing birth-mom data
  93. Income gradient for children’s mental health
  94. Mary 2010: Buying time?
  95. Gloria and her money, analyticized
  96. Quick update: Black-White women’s employment gap
  97. What is the 1% meme solution?
  98. Pay gaps you can see
  99. Evangelicals, adoption, and adoption corruption
  100. Little man meet little cupcake
  101. Once more, with urgency (the fall of Mary)
  102. The fall of Mary
  103. Fertile decline
  104. Living with grandparents update (yikes edition)
  105. On the mundanity of American family life
  106. Was FDR born that way?
  107. Low fidelity sexology
  108. Tipping point on tipping-point hyperbole?
  109. Putting teen birth rates on the maps
  110. Is dating still dead?
  111. Finding family inequality
  112. Wal-Mart turning point
  113. Gender gaps by education and age
  114. Mancession, HeCovery (shock and awe)
  115. Risks women share, more and less
  116. Stop that feminist viral statistic meme
  117. The frailty of gender math and science stereotypes
  118. The religious basis of Black opposition to marriage rights
  119. No-leave policy’s long-lived effects
  120. Getting the story straight on working mothers and children’s risks
  121. The marriage rights dominoes fall
  122. Homogamy: Start the presses
  123. If we could teach kids one thing
  124. Doing color with babies
  125. Marriage benefits that make you go hmmmm…
  126. Happily Ever After on WUNC
  127. Income inequality in mental illness
  128. The appearance of the invention of adolescence
  129. State v. family care for elders in China
  130. Tips of the parenting iceberg
  131. Janet W. Salaff (and the feminists China helped make)
  132. Sociology wedding sleuth (because you can’t make this stuff up)
  133. Inequality effects on birth outcomes
  134. Race class health (asthma)
  135. Health inequality compendium
  136. Care vacuums
  137. Demographic trends and ngrams
  138. A pause to appreciate the social science of inequality
  139. Mother no more?
  140. Multigenerational families, recession studies

2010 151

  1. 2010’s top 10
  2. Meet the new result on the new boss
  3. Horizontal and vertical family relationships, literarily
  4. ‘Parenting’ through the (only very recent) ages
  5. In absence of welfare, gov’t delivers poor children to big pharma
  6. Rich budget, poor budget
  7. Visualizing marriage decline
  8. Asian images
  9. In PhD hunt, men track men
  10. The political economy of maternal love
  11. Black men’s marriages
  12. Weathering health inequality
  13. Hunger in the human family
  14. More marriage predictions gone awry
  15. The royal heads up
  16. Why aren’t marriages getting happier?
  17. Women’s share, by education
  18. Married, more and less
  19. Past predictions (marriage dreams not quite true)
  20. Boys get less sex education
  21. Coupling inequality
  22. Black-White employment gaps drag on
  23. Choice interpretation on marriage trends
  24. Race, insurance, and diagnosis delay
  25. The texting-crash epidemic that isn’t?
  26. Good woman child language
  27. Children rarely born
  28. Poverty, welfare, and not
  29. Scripting family diversity
  30. Working wives, upward
  31. Depressing inequality
  32. Not to scale
  33. The less you have, the more it gets stolen
  34. Marriage and divorce disparities
  35. Managing women
  36. Time check
  37. Cohabitation’s neotraditional turn
  38. Gay and lesbian parents making the grade
  39. Poverty, single mothers and race/ethnicity
  40. Heritage hack job
  41. Family income breakdown
  42. Thank you, Sociological Images
  43. Dr. Woman
  44. Happy Grandparents Day (no need to send a card)
  45. This thing about young women earning more…
  46. Ivory’s tower
  47. Receding birth rates: milestone or tipping point?
  48. Sex crimes, incarcerated
  49. Delusions of dimorphism
  50. Home, school?
  51. New to-reads
  52. Inequality’s a tourist
  53. Engendering Change
  54. Baby boom talk
  55. Citizenship: Because I said so
  56. Schwarzenegger 1, Obama 0
  57. Single, Black and middle class
  58. Institutional discrimination is bad for mental health
  59. Police your teens, or else?
  60. Young, educated, and gender-gapped
  61. For families, and…?
  62. Anti-gay authority
  63. Discussing I Don’t
  64. What’s your T?
  65. Mammography’s income gradient
  66. Returning to Semenya’s return
  67. Marriage gets in the way
  68. Gay prom controversy (1980-2010)
  69. Your family, immediately
  70. Healthcare’s race of place
  71. The Family Inequality 100
  72. AIDS and the missing middle
  73. Lifestyles of the 4x-poverty set
  74. Newsweek strikes back
  75. How much have you got to spend?
  76. Reproducing childhood hardship
  77. Health insurance v. asthma
  78. Obesity, birth and health
  79. Intermarriage, gender and nativity
  80. Apart but not separated
  81. Where does love fit in?
  82. Cracking (Norwegian) adolescents’ (contemporary) code
  83. Behind the gendered workplace
  84. Charting welfare numbers
  85. Welfare system in shambles
  86. Pastiches in family style
  87. Artificial life at last
  88. Black-White employment gap update II
  89. No wealth for the weary
  90. Paid for disability care
  91. What is the opposite of gay marriage?
  92. Hard times on the road to adulthood
  93. For whom it just happens
  94. Asthma, environment, inequality
  95. Child abuse in the recession
  96. Take my words for it: homogamy and heterogamy
  97. Unhealthy behavior?
  98. Working women of Wal-Mart united
  99. Russia’s institutionalized children
  100. Gendered outfits for the birds
  101. Your color preference
  102. Equal pay day: Integration through education
  103. Men are people, women are women
  104. Color gender by the numbers
  105. U.S. bucks the trend on maternal mortality
  106. Educated motherhood
  107. Recession stalls birth rates
  108. In education, gender integration and stall
  109. Canadian inequality squashed
  110. Children’s extreme health inequality
  111. The bathroom icon has no clothes
  112. Breastfeeding gaps persist
  113. Intimate partner violence falls
  114. Schooling undocumented immigrants
  115. Gender and the generations
  116. Children’s gender impositions
  117. Will Asian sex ratios return to normal?
  118. Pink/blue, boy/girl?
  119. Cosmetic surgery cutbacks (for women)
  120. Cohabitation, engaged and not
  121. All work and no pay
  122. International adoption under siege?
  123. W(h)ither intercountry adoption?
  124. Floodgates open
  125. What for sterilization victims?
  126. Are we there yet?
  127. Asthma unequal
  128. Women in charge at Xerox
  129. Rich death, poor death
  130. MBAs’ lasting gender gap
  131. Who’s online?
  132. National Children’s Study before national healthcare
  133. Like father, like son, comparatively speaking
  134. Is religion good?
  135. Inheriting inequality in the UK
  136. Gay marriage and abortion in Mexico City
  137. Who Knows? Black HIV/AIDS Day
  138. Not to scale
  139. Recession, gender and work
  140. Orphans of disaster
  141. Devaluing and revaluing women’s work
  142. Gendering parenthood studies
  143. What’s on your mind?
  144. More wives make more
  145. Keeping the mancession in perspective
  146. Children’s overweight trends
  147. When young people can’t say ‘no’
  148. Black women’s employment gap update
  149. Finding autism
  150. Born in chains
  151. How do they do it?

2009 45

  1. Recession begets family violence
  2. Taxing estates, barely
  3. Who gets family immigration?
  4. Welfare doesn’t keep up
  5. Where the youngest die more
  6. The world’s gender declaration
  7. Gay marriage in Mexico City
  8. Abstinence ghost in the reform machine
  9. Recession, resilience, divorce?
  10. Erectile distribution
  11. Gay rights birthright
  12. Infertility inequalities
  13. Bio dad over moms’ rights
  14. Smile if you’re not going to get divorced
  15. And in meritocracy news…
  16. Teaching too late
  17. Latina teen suicide
  18. Film by: Men
  19. France’s 50-50 boardroom mandate?
  20. Women’s income health gradient news
  21. Biggest tiny losers?
  22. What ails Black women 3: Discrimination and repercussions
  23. TV time at child care
  24. No referendum on gay marriage rights
  25. Evolutionary sexuality
  26. The gifted-and-talented wink-and-nod
  27. Underserved Black women underserved by breast cancer advice
  28. Women’s stalled march to the top?
  29. What ails Black women 2: Health and life
  30. Anti-gay revolt for benefits revoke
  31. Are you talking about my mother?
  32. What ails Black women 1: Work and wages
  33. Intensively parenting infants
  34. When caregiving gives out
  35. Is abortion healthcare?
  36. Child support glass nearly half full
  37. Exemplary parenting, same-sex style
  38. Catholic advocacy on abortion, pro and con
  39. Black v. White women’s employment losses
  40. Valerie K. Oppenheimer
  41. Does every sound bite have a source?
  42. Who needs marriage?
  43. Women, marriage and health insurance
  44. Four-out-of-five myths about America
  45. Whose right to sex education?