This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women.
1. How Parenting Became A DIY Project by Emily Matchar of The Atlantic says from home birth to homemade baby food to homeschooling, raising kids is a way for parents to express their individuality.
2. Study: It Gets Better For Gay Teens, But By How Much? by Katie McDonough of Salon.com says a new 7-year study shows things do get better as gay teens enter adulthood, but we still have a very long way to go.
3. I Love You. Now Text Me. by Katie Roiphe of Slate.com explores how some online relationships are more real than real ones.
4. In U.S., Outrage Over All The President’s Men by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa of The New York Times discusses President Obama’s all-male, all-white nominations for the top jobs in his second-term cabinet, which has advocates for women in an uproar.
5. Let’s Not Be Wed To Outmoded Ideas Of What Marriage Is by Jill Filipovic of The Guardian says values conservatives have got it wrong: Marriage doesn’t foster social stability and economic prosperity. It’s the other way around.
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