Relationships

Research links advanced paternal age to higher risks of autism, schizophrenia, and other conditions in children. The science of the male biological clock.

June 29, 2011 · 2 min read

A Meerut bride tied a rakhi to her husband to reunite with her lover, then the lover dumped her. The strange, sad twist in a viral UP story.

June 28, 2011 · 1 min read

Canadian researchers found bilingual dementia patients showed symptoms about four years later than monolingual patients. What the evidence says, and its limits.

June 5, 2011 · 2 min read

Maria Shriver reportedly suspected the truth long before the LA Times broke it: how the Schwarzenegger marriage unraveled in May 2011.

May 20, 2011 · 1 min read

A 2011 study of 357 adoptive families found marital strain at 9 months predicted babies' sleep problems at 18 months — and not the other way around.

May 16, 2011 · 2 min read

A 2011 Jamshedpur femicide — an engineering student allegedly killed his girlfriend after an argument — and what such cases say about intimate-partner

April 29, 2011 · 1 min read

Census 2011 plus a Delhi University survey: 44% of respondents preferred a male child, and Delhi's child sex ratio stood at just 866 girls per 1,000 boys.

April 6, 2011 · 1 min read

At 92, Clara Tang was committed to stand trial for the 2010 killing of her 98-year-old husband in Sydney — Australia's oldest woman to face a murder trial.

April 2, 2011 · 1 min read

A Gorakhpur engineering college rusticated a final-year student for keeping her boyfriend in her hostel room. The incident -- and its double standard.

March 19, 2011 · 1 min read

Children spanked at age 3 are more likely to be aggressive by age 5, research finds. What the science says about corporal punishment -- and what works instead.

February 25, 2011 · 1 min read

In 2011, Kay Hymowitz's 'Manning Up' argued the rise of women had turned men into boys. The extended-adolescence debate -- the facts and the framing.

February 25, 2011 · 2 min read

Why group dates caught on in India: safety, lower pressure, and the friend-group as chaperone. Inside the 2011 trend and what became of it.

February 20, 2011 · 1 min read

In February 2011, Mark Zuckerberg won a restraining order against Pradeep Manukonda, 31, who stalked him across Facebook, his offices, and his front steps.

February 8, 2011 · 1 min read

When care turns into control: why mothering your husband backfires, and how to keep the partnership equal without losing the tenderness.

January 30, 2011 · 1 min read

Why do so many men forget Valentine's Day? Memory, marketing, and the mind-reading trap -- and the one conversation that fixes it.

January 29, 2011 · 1 min read

Steve Jobs at 30, weeks after leaving Apple: a candid 1985 Newsweek interview on getting fired, staying unbitter, and why customers cannot invent the future.

January 26, 2011 · 1 min read

India's RTE Act had just banned corporal punishment in schools. Yet the old proverb refused to die. What the research — and the law — actually say.

January 14, 2011 · 1 min read

A lasting marriage isn't always a happy one. Research on self-expansion suggests the happiest couples are the ones still learning together.

January 5, 2011 · 1 min read

Marital drift — the slow divergence of two people sharing a house — is the least dramatic and most common reason long marriages end. Why it happens.

January 3, 2011 · 1 min read

Supermodel, singer, and France’s most unconventional first lady: on Carla Bruni-Sarkozy’s creative identity and the French art of minding one’s business.

December 4, 2010 · 1 min read