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Friday, August 27, 2004
In the Sep 04 issue of Parenting magazine a blurb at the bottom of the page reads: “One less thing to worry about: A new study says kids of single moms do just as well in school and are as well behaved as those who live with two parents.” That’s all. No citation. No further information about this one study: how the study was conducted, what they mean by “live with two parents,” what indicators they looked at. Just a blanket reassurance – “one less thing to worry about” – with virtually nothing to back it up. Married? Single? Status affects how women vote. A USA Today story on the 38 point “marriage gap,” with married women leaning Republican and single women leaning Democratic. Thursday, August 26, 2004
MORE CELEB GOSSIP: Riding an elevator in a Manhattan highrise office building I, like the other riders, was watching a little video monitor with news flashes. One news flash: Julia Roberts told some reporter that after delivering her twins she has no plans to do movies again. A female rider on the elevator snorted. I had my doubts too. CELEB MOMS AND DADS: In an airport taxi I found an old People (with Gwenyth Paltrow, hubbie, and new baby on the cover). Inside, noting the unusual name of Paltrow's new baby (Apple) the reporter offered a list of other, recently-born, unusually-named celeb couple babies. If the couple was married the mom was described as "wife" of the dad. I noticed that out of a list of eight or ten celeb couples with new babies, only three were married. SIGHTING: Walking up 8th Avenue in midtown Manhattan, a twenty-something threesome. One guy, two girls. He's got his arm wrapped around one, snuggling with her, while holding hands with the other. They're striding boldly. They seem, to me, to be making a statement. Something along the lines of, "We're here, we're polyamorous, get used to it." But did I note anxiety on the face of the young woman whose hand was merely being held, who was not being snuggled? Was that unpleasant "third wheel" effect already rearing its ugly head? Monday, August 23, 2004
The best sentence from the book review David notes, below: Neatly skirting the probability that a harmonious split may not follow an antagonistic marriage, Margulies argues that nearly all divorcing couples can choose to have a good divorce... I also noticed that the reviewer wrote "good divorce" several times without quotes. I think most articles I've seen put the phrase in quotes. Does dropping the quotes signify the further incursion of this "good divorce" idea into mainstream, everyday use -- and, along with it, an uncritical acceptance that some divorces are actually "good"? |
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