Self Esteem
“It’s easy to have high self-esteem — just aim low.” -Albert Bandura
Marriage is Like Living in Minnesota
I now think of marriage like I think about living in my home state of Minnesota. You move into marriage in the springtime of hope, but eventually arrive at the Minnesota winter, with its cold and darkness. Many of us are tempted to give up and move south at this point, not realizing that maybe [...]
Types of Affairs
There are really no hard and fast rules for describing types of extra-marital affairs. Every writer comes up with his own classification. (I’ve written about this same subject here.) Below is another way of thinking about affairs: Affairs present themselves in every area of social work. The therapist, the school social worker, and the parenting [...]
Postponing Marriage
Americans are waiting longer to get married: when my parents married the average age was 22 for men and 20 for women; the year my wife and I were married the averages were 24 and 22; for the most recent data I could find (2005), the average for men was 27 and 25 for women. [...]
An Angry Young Man
I walked into the end of something today. I arrived early for my class and outside of the classroom was a student talking with a campus police officer. The benches normally spaced out along one wall of the hallway were stacked on top of each other and the young man was excitedly explaining to the [...]
The Business of Divorce
In a recent blog entry (The Divorce Industrial Complex) Al Mohler writes: Few Americans seem to understand that marriage is being undermined by what can be called a “Divorce Industrial Complex” that includes lawyers, counselors, court personnel, and various others. I suppose I should be offended. I am one of those counselors who benefits financially [...]
Ground Breaking Research
Sometimes you gotta wonder about the pressure on academics to “publish or perish”. First there was this article, originally published in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine: Non-medical Use Of Prescription Medications Associated With Drug Abuse Among College Students College students who take frequently abused medications without a prescription appear to have a higher [...]
