In 2022, 41 percent of adults providing unpaid adult care were men, according to a Washington Post analysis of the latest American Time Use Survey data. That number is down from about 45 percent in 2019, and 47 percent in 2012. The gender gap in unpaid adult care continues to grow, with women providing most of the care.
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When William Sparks was a 27-year-old graduate student in psychology, he wrote a paper on…
Scapegoating — the projecting of unwarranted blame — can crop up often in everyday life. It happens in troubled homes where members shame a family scapegoat rather than look at the true nature of their frustrations.
At San Francisco City Hall, many voters took selfies as they placed ballots into the…
It happens quickly: A child on the autism spectrum bolts from supervision and disappears –…
In the western United States, where massive wildfires have fouled the air with smoke and…
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The calls kept coming into the National Runaway Safeline during the pandemic: the desperate kids…
Emily Sandoz, a psychologist in Louisiana, has witnessed clients’ grueling struggles during the pandemic. Many said they felt trapped and deprived of their usual ways of coping. Others began therapy for the first time…