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and carries pictures of Celebrity Chef Nigella Lawson attacked by her husband Charles Satchi in a London restaurant. The couple had gone to their favorite seafood restaurant and were seen sitting in an outside table. It...
Campaigners for Muslim women's rights said while short term 'contract marriages' are illegal in India and forbidden in Islam, they are increasing in Hyderabad, in southern India, where wealthy foreigners, local agents an...
The internet has given children unprecedented access to information, creativity, and connection — and unprecedented exposure to risk. For parents navigating the digital landscape alongside their children, the challenge i...
Jessica Schairer has so much in common with her boss, Chris Faulkner, that a visitor to the day care center they run might get them confused. They are both friendly white women from modest Midwestern backgrounds who left...
Relationships and Human Connection Humans are fundamentally social creatures. Strong relationships are central to happiness, health, and meaning. Multiple Relationships A fulfilling life typically involves multiple types...
She Sees Clutter, He Sees Treasures Not long after she remarried two years ago, Karen Steele realized the look of her Roseville, Calif., home had changed. The problem is her husband's office. It has become a catchall for...
The word "nag" — applied almost exclusively to women who repeatedly raise concerns, requests, or complaints — carries a weight of dismissal that is worth examining directly. It frames repetition as a character flaw rathe...
The research on exercise motivation has consistently identified one of the most effective predictors of sustained physical activity: social accountability. People who work out with others — whether partners, friends, or...
It was an eye opener-this Sunday's Satyamev Jayate. 53% of kids are sexually abused. We have to hear our kids -when they are saying something-about being uncomfortable, about not wanting to interact with certain individu...
For decades, the common-sense assumption was that living together before marriage would reduce divorce rates — that couples who tested their compatibility under the same roof before making a legal commitment would be bet...
Ladies, Get Ready: Its a Leap Year! Ever since the idea of an extra day every four years was implemented as a corrective measure for the calendar, it has been filled with traditions and superstitions.One of these is the...
Research published in the journal PLOS ONE suggested a genetic component to divorce risk, adding biological complexity to what is usually discussed in purely social and psychological terms. The study found that women who...
Lists of parenting advice tend toward the prescriptive and the anxious, but the genre "rules for fathers of daughters" has produced some genuinely moving iterations — attempts by men to articulate, in the form of practic...
Love really can be a drug, according to new research that shows feelings of intense love can relieve pain. Researchers from Stanford University studied the link between love and pain by scanning the brains of 15 college...
The intersection of high-pressure professional environments and personal behavior emerged in an uncomfortable way in a case that circulated in financial industry circles: a banker, reportedly under significant stress fro...
The Penn State abuse scandal, which revealed how institutional silence had allowed serial child sexual abuse to continue for years, had a ripple effect beyond the university: it prompted parents, schools, and families ac...
The child, whom neighbours described as blond and angelic, died of head injuries on Friday night, French police said. His mother Charlene, 25, recovered him from the machine, according to Le Parisien newspaper.She then r...
Every Indian parent has either said it or heard it: "Sharma ji ka beta scored 98 percent." The comparison to other children — neighbors' kids, cousins, classmates — is so embedded in the social fabric of Indian parenting...
The revelation that Jerry Sandusky, a longtime assistant coach at Penn State football, had sexually abused multiple boys over a period of years — and that university officials including head coach Joe Paterno had known a...
The question of how hard to push children toward academic achievement sits at the intersection of love, anxiety, and competing theories about what actually produces successful, happy adults. There are no easy answers, bu...
In the era of social media, even the most private moments can become public spectacles — a reality one couple at a Burger King discovered when a bystander live-tweeted their breakup to thousands of followers. The scene u...
An explosive sex abuse scandal and allegations of a cover-up rocked Happy Valley after former( defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, once considered Joe Paterno's heir apparent, was charged with sexually assaulting eight...
An Indian-origin man has been given a suspended jail term in Britain for secretly feeding his wife steroids so that she becomes overweight and stays at home to cook and look after their children. In the bizarre case, Lei...
The connection between sweet foods and sweet personalities may be more than metaphor. A series of studies published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that people who prefer sweet-tasting foods als...
The deaths of a young married couple — both employed in India's information technology sector — shocked friends, colleagues, and the broader public, raising uncomfortable questions about the hidden pressures beneath the...
Working mothers regularly send children to school sick - because they don't feel able to take time off looking after them, it emerged yesterday. Researchers found four out of ten employed mums have sent their child to sc...
When will adults get mature enough to know what gifts to give to their children . In another incident in the Chicago area -one wealthy but immature set of parents had gifted a Porsche to his 16 yr old! The child was driv...
When Mary Coleman died in May 2009, two days after she fell to the floor at her sister's house, her sister and nephew decided there was nothing they could do about it and went out for pizza. Then, according to a criminal...
The question of why marriages fail has occupied psychologists, sociologists, theologians, and divorce lawyers for as long as marriage has existed as a legal and social institution. What the research over the past half-ce...
Friendship: Essential Connection in Modern Life Friendships are among the most important determinants of happiness and wellbeing, yet modern life creates challenges for sustaining them. Why Friendship Matters Research co...
Ralph Richard Banks, a Stanford law professor, published a book with this provocative title examining a phenomenon that is genuinely significant and genuinely underexamined: the dramatic decline in marriage rates among A...
Like something from a film childhood sweethearts from Southampton are finally tying the knot after 63 years apart. After decades of being separated by disapproving parents Bill Labram and Peggy Fryer, both 80 will be get...
Research on the role of early maternal attachment in male development has accumulated substantial evidence that the quality of the mother-son relationship shapes social competence, emotional regulation, and long-term out...
A Miami-Dade middle school teacher was dismissed from his position after it emerged that he had a previous career in adult entertainment — a case that raises questions about how school districts handle the intersection o...
A study claiming that women spend an average of five hours per day gossiping has made its way through the press cycle with the velocity that gender-confirming statistics reliably achieve, which makes it worth pausing to...
The party was in full swing , everybody seemed to be enjoying the music , some swayed with their cocktails and others enjoyed delicious looking appetizers . Amidst all this I was busy , as usual , doing what I do best –...
Happiness is based on wife being slimmer than husband, according to study Researchers claim both partners are more content if the woman has a lower Body Mass Index (BMI) than the man. A four-year study found that relatio...
The Divorce Generation Every generation has its life-defining moments. If you want to find out what it was for a member of the Greatest Generation, you ask: "Where were you on D-Day?" For baby boomers, the questions are:...
I have always believed that Draupadi was lucky. After all, she was legalized as the wife of five men. She really didn't need to fake a headache when it got boring with the same guy. Moreover, I am sure none of them doubt...
Married, With Infidelities Last month, when the New York congressman Anthony Weiner finally admitted that he had lied, that his Twitter account had not been hacked, that he in fact had sent a picture of his thinly clad u...
Several months ago, my friend Anna called to complain about her boyfriend of eight months. Bombarded by media warnings about the female biological clock, he wanted to make sure that Anna was fit for childbearing before t...
Boy dumps girl who tied rakhi to husband to reunite with him MEERUT: The ajab prem ki ghazab kahani that rocked this western Uttar Pradesh town last fortnight has taken a sad twist. Remember the young husband who had ask...
A cognitive neuroscientist, Ellen Bialystok has spent almost 40 years learning about how bilingualism sharpens the mind. Her good news: Among other benefits, the regular use of two languages appears to delay the onset of...
Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...
Sleeping problems are thought to affect brain development and lead to other problems later in life. The study, published in the journal Child Development, looked at 357 adopted children and their families in the US. A UK...
A horrifying crime has shaken the city of Jamshedpur after Bijendra Kumar, 23, an engineering diploma student, allegedly beheaded his girlfriend following what witnesses describe as an argument that turned violent with s...
Census 2011: Survey in Delhi, Noida reveals male child preferred by 44% The skewed sex ratio, as revealed in Census 2011, shows that campaigns by the government have not been very effective in curbing female foeticide. T...
AT 92, Clara Tang is accused of bludgeoning, suffocating and stabbing her 98-year-old husband to death. Now she has become the oldest woman in Australia to be committed to stand trial for murder. After almost 70 years of...
A BTech final year girl student at MMM Engineering College, Gorakhpur, was rusticated by the college administration on Tuesday for keeping her boyfriend in her hostel room during night. The boy is a student of IIT-Delhi....
Relationships and Human Connection Humans are fundamentally social creatures. Strong relationships are central to happiness, health, and meaning. Multiple Relationships A fulfilling life typically involves multiple types...
Not so long ago, the average American man in his 20s had achieved most of the milestones of adulthood: a high-school diploma, financial independence, marriage and children. Today, most men in their 20s hang out in a nove...
IN 2008, three young guys in Manhattan started Ignighter.com, a dating Web site focused on twentysomethings. They sought to set themselves apart by enabling members to set up group dates: One member, serving as a point p...
Mark Zuckerberg claims he's being stalked by a man who's been sending him creepy messages through Facebook and threatening his safety Zuckerberg has obtained a restraining order against 31-year-old Pradeep Manukonda -- a...
Over-the-top behavior? Rounds says no way. "He loves to be taken care of." It's a scenario familiar to many relationship experts, who say that first comes love, then comes marriage, and then comes the husband in the baby...
The annual Valentine's Day reckoning—in which a significant portion of the male population arrives on February 14th with no reservation, no gift, and a dawning awareness that something was expected—repeats with remarkabl...
Here is a very interesting interview of Steve Jobs after he was just kicked out of Apple in 1985. He doesn't beat around the bush on getting fired and his disappointment. However what's even more remarkable is how he has...
The story of Indian diplomat in UK, Anil Verma- IAS, and his wife Paromita Verma is getting more ugly by each passing day. The daily mail reports that Anil used to boast to his wife about his diplomatic status and how no...
Relationships and Human Connection Humans are fundamentally social creatures. Strong relationships are central to happiness, health, and meaning. Multiple Relationships A fulfilling life typically involves multiple types...
Continuing on our series around relationships especially for married couples, read an interesting article at NYT recently. It talks about how the key to long and happy married life does not lie in more money, looks, powe...
The phenomenon social psychologists call "marital drift" — the gradual, often imperceptible divergence of two people who were once closely aligned — is among the most common sources of late-life marriage dissolution and...
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy arrived at the Élysée Palace in 2008 as the most unconventional first lady in the recent history of Western democracies — a former supermodel and successful pop singer who had been photographed by som...
The Guinness World Records recognition of a couple as the world's tallest — with a combined height that exceeded thirteen feet — generated the kind of human interest coverage that record books exist to produce: photograp...
The Reverend Cedric Miller of Neptune, New Jersey, made a series of headlines in 2010 when he announced from the pulpit that married members of his congregation should delete their Facebook accounts, or risk temptation t...
The Saturday-night standoff—one partner eager to attend a social event, the other determined to stay home—is among the most reliably recurring conflicts in long-term relationships, and the way couples navigate it reveals...
At the end of a long day, after a rotten commute filled with road rage and little accomplished at work, with chores piled up at home and the weekend nowhere in sight, my 4-year-old daughter clambered onto the sofa next t...
