A large study of married couples found that those whose children had left home reported feeling closer to each other, not further apart. Here is what the research shows, and what it cannot promise.
A parent who says she still feels thirty-five isn’t fooling herself. Researchers who measured the felt ages of nearly 1,500 adults found that the gap between how old we are and how old we feel is one of the steadiest patterns of the lifespan — and it isn’t the denial it was long assumed to be.
The question that wakes you up There is a particular kind of question that can make you feel slightly uncomfortable. Not because it is harsh.
The image of the only child as spoiled, lonely, and a little odd has outlasted the evidence by about a century. When researchers pooled more than a hundred studies, the lonely-only mostly disappeared.
It arrives, for many parents, without particularly good timing. The youngest child has finally started sleeping through the night. The family has settled into something
Research on how we feel time keeps finding the same odd split — the ordinary day hasn’t sped up at all, but the long look back quietly has.
There is a category of adult experience that the available research has been mapping in increasing empirical detail across the last three decades. The pattern
There is a version of growing up that a lot of people carry around without quite examining it. In this version, adulthood is not a
There’s a lazy story we tell about older people who won’t take on anything new. We say they’ve lost their curiosity, that their minds have
I have a memory that I’m not sure is real. I’m probably one or two years old. My mother is holding me in her arms
A national study found about a quarter of Americans say they had a midlife crisis, far more than researchers expected — but most of those crises landed well outside the classic age-forty window.
Decades of family research find that favoritism rarely disappears in adulthood — and that what the children sense often weighs more than what the mother will admit.