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• Extending the Privilege of Preschool

  "Why aren't you in school?" the third stranger in a week asked my daughter today.  My daughter is only three, and though it's true that we home school her, she is still two years shy of the compulsory school age. Read More... Posted Sep 26 2008, 08:10 PM by Shannon LC Cate with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: preschool, education, school, working parents, daycare, public school, judith warner, Pew Charitable Trusts, early childhood, federal budget, home school

• They Say: Depression Is Merely a Failure to Count Your Blessings

  James Gordon, the author of Unstuck: Your Guide for the Seven Stage Journey Out of Depression, can bite me. Oprah Magazine's Cathryn Jakobson Ramin can also bite me. Read More... Posted Jul 25 2008, 02:00 PM by Adrienne Martini with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: depression, PPD, judith warner, they say, Cathryn Jakobson Ramin, Terese Borchard, James Gordon

• Tragic Death of Manhattan Mother Preventable

  New Yorker Carol Gotbaum was a 45-year old mother of three young children on her way to alcohol treatment in Arizona when she died in airport police custody.  Her death, apparently a suicide (though it's under investigation) was entirely tragic and completely preventable.  A woman suffering from depression and alcoholism simultaneously, whose husband called airport security (too late) to warn them of her precarious state of mind... Read More... Posted Oct 15 2007, 12:29 PM by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) with | with 43 comment(s) Filed under: post partum depression, New York, alcohol abuse, judith warner, treatment, carol gotbaum