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		<title>Who Does More at Home: Men or Women?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the recent slew of coverage of What&#8217;s Holding Women Back from the Highest Echelons of Leadership, a recurring theme is the revolution at home. Or lack thereof. Men, as I wrote in TIME&#8217;s recent cover story on Sheryl Sandberg&#8217;s book Leaning In, have generally made room for women in the workplace. But the home front remains more of a battleground. Most studies suggest that women are carrying the heavy end of the domestic load. Men are catching up. But they&#8217;re beginning to stagger a bit under the weight. According to an interesting new Pew study, men have taken on vastly more of the domestic workload than they did in 1965 — about two and a half times as much. No surprises there. But a very small percentage of fathers bear the brunt of the housework and childcare in their home. Moms still spend about twice as much time with their children as dads do (13.5 hours per week for mothers in 2011, compared with 7.3 hours for fathers, according to Pew). What has changed is the attitudes of these men have about the shift. They are quickly becoming O.K. with the idea that the mothers of their children will be working outside the home too. This trend has been quite dramatic: &#8220;In 2009, 54% of fathers with children under age 17 said the ideal situation for young children was to have a mother who did not work at all outside the home,&#8221; Pew reports. &#8220;Today only 37% of fathers say that — a drop of 17 percentage points.&#8221; This could well have something to do with the economy. The number of households who can survive on the income of only one of the two potential breadwinners has dwindled since the recent recession. (MORE: Why Husbands Who Share Household Chores Miss Out on Sex) Perhaps as a result, men and women are beginning to feel that old work-life-balance anxiety almost equally. Half the men Pew surveyed expressed difficulty juggling the demands of work and home, as did 56% of women.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=82539&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Eligible Bachelor&#8221; List: How Quaint</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/18/the-eligible-bachelor-list-how-quaint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Town &#38; Country magazine&#8217;s February issue is out, with its annual inventory of  &#8220;Top 50 Bachelors.&#8221;  As editorial franchises go, this is so antiquated that it&#8217;s almost all the way back refreshing. Almost. Even if you overlook that George Hamilton and all four* of Bryan Ferry&#8217;s sons made the list, it&#8217;s a story that makes you want to poke your own eyes out. The roll-call is pretty much what you&#8217;d expect—some sports figures, a techie or two, some political up-and-comers and lots and lots of rich people&#8217;s sons. It&#8217;s not entirely serious; the magazine offers up four guys it acknowledges would probably be the marital equivalent of 10 miles of bad road and one Italian textile tycoon who not only has his jeans tailored, but formerly dated Naomi Campbell. (&#8220;Always a red flag,&#8221; it notes.) And some of it is patently ridiculous: one of the most eligible bachelors is Jack Nicholson, aka the white whale of committed mates. The Eligible Bachelor is the close cousin, or at least in the same posse, as that other dubious male icon, the Charming Prince. Indeed, several royal younglings made the list, which is headed by Prince Harry— the Master of bachelors, so to speak.  The whole concept is  fantasy, and not an entirely pleasant one. It belongs to a time when women&#8217;s best future lay in them making a good match, which itself seems not far removed from the era of providing a dowry to a man&#8217;s family for taking the family-budget-eating girl-child off your hands. (MORE: Prince Harry Gets His Own Bachelor Pad — Next Door to Will and Kate) You&#8217;d think that women were no longer held under the sway of such myths, that, having made huge strides in education and employment, they were seeking more of a life partner and enthusiastic bedfellow and less of a meal ticket. But in many cases, you&#8217;d be wrong. &#8220;I can&#8217;t tell you how many terrific, smart 20 year old girls in my practice are holding out for that good-looking high testosterone man,&#8221; says Rachel<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=78156&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Manti Te&#8217;o Could Have Fallen in Love with Someone He Never Met</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/18/how-manti-teo-could-have-fallen-in-love-with-someone-he-never-met/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what must be the most jaw-dropping sports story to emerge in a week of jaw-dropping sports stories (hello, OprahLance!), it emerges that star Notre Dame footballer Manti Te&#8217;o had a girlfriend who never existed. That would not be much of a tale—who hasn&#8217;t had at least one fake dalliance?— except that Te&#8217;o, a probable first round pick in the NFL draft in April, became famous when his grandmother and that girlfriend were said to have died in the same 24 hour period in September and he still went out and left nothing on the field for the fighting Irish. &#8220;I developed an emotional relationship with a woman I met online,&#8221; Te&#8217;o said in a statement. &#8220;We maintained what I thought to be an authentic relationship by communicating frequently online and on the phone, and I grew to care deeply about her.&#8221; Romantic stories of their ill-fated relationship were woven into many profiles about the rising sports star—as she was dying of leukemia, his voice over the phone would improve her vital signs, she&#8217;d send him letters timed to arrive before every game. As of this writing, it&#8217;s unclear whether Te&#8217;o is the victim of an elaborate ruse or whether he is complicit in a plot to hoodwink the media. There are many questions still to be addressed, but one of the most fascinating is whether it&#8217;s possible to really be in love with someone you&#8217;ve never met. The answer, surprisingly, is yes, or at least to believe you are. History and literature are, after all, full of examples of star-crossed lovers who communicate by letters or rarely see each other. Part of the romance is that the love is unfulfilled. Some of the great love stories of yore (remember Heloise and Abelard)—were conducted almost entirely by letters. Why not email, Twitter or IM? (MORE: The Manti Te’o Hoax: 6 Questions About the ‘Fake’ Girlfriend That Has the Sports World Reeling) As brain activity goes, love is pretty complicated, involving a mix of chemical, cognitive and goal-directed behavioral processes. The<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=78276&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Small Breakthrough in the Mystery of Touch</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/12/a-small-breakthrough-in-the-mystery-of-touch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sense of touch is more of a mystery than that of hearing, smell, sight or taste. Perhaps that&#8217;s why more songs have been written about it (&#8220;Smell Me in the Morning&#8221; just doesn&#8217;t have the same ring.) But now scientists have unlocked one secret about how it works using only a fruit fly and an eyelash. Researchers at the University of California in San Francisco have  identified the precise subset of nerve cells responsible for transmitting gentle touch to the brains of Drosophila, or fruit fly,  larvae. They&#8217;re called class III neurons. At the spiky end of these nerve cells one particular protein, NOMPC, apparently dominates. This molecule appears to be critical in communicating the type of touch a nerve senses. MORE: Understanding Why Autistic People May Reject Social Touch Tactile perception has long been the most complicated of the senses to study, yet it&#8217;s a strong candidate for being our most important sense. Research into orphans suggests that babies who are never touched can never really form bonds with other humans. And even before birth, before a fetus responds to visual or auditory stimuli, he or she responds to touch. Ultrasounds show apparently insensate little creatures squirming away from pokes to the belly or needles taking a sample of amniotic fluid. Gentle touch, or stroking, is particularly important. Doctors now know that premature babies need to be gently caressed to thrive,  despite their fragility. Researchers have suggested that everything from grooming behaviors among other primates to the the popularity of face creams among ours can be traced to living beings&#8217; need for a tender touch.  Michelangelo, after all, did not paint God hearing Adam into being on the ceiling of the Sistine chapel. MORE: How Teen Rejection Can Lead to Chronic Disease Later in Life But touch is a very complicated sense to study. How does the body know, for example, to flinch away from a pinprick or a hot kettle, but not from a soft caress? &#8220;Our understanding of touch is lagging behind vision, olfaction or taste,&#8221; says UCSF <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=75899&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So Much for Qualifications: Employers Hire People They Like</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/10/so-much-for-qualifications-employers-hire-people-they-like/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wondered how recruitment folks at elite law, banking and management consultant firms choose between all those Ivy League graduates who arrive at their doorsteps bearing dangerously high-GPA degrees? Those with the best skill set? Those with the greatest level of commitment? Those with the most impressive hair?  If an interesting new study is to be believed, they choose the ones they like. The study, published in the American Sociological Review, looked at the interview and hiring techniques of the three high-paying professions —first year JDs can expect to make about $175K a year—to tease out how much cultural cues influence who gets those plum jobs. The researcher, Lauren Rivera assistant professor of management and organization at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, conducted 120 interviews with job interviewers to figure out what criteria they use. Read More:  Happy Teens Grow Up to Be Wealthier Too Hiring practices are important because, as all job seekers are all too well aware, the first position is always the toughest one to land. Once a young lawyer already has a few years under his or her belt at Tony, Tony, Tony &#38; Titan law firm, other doors swing open more easily.  Moreover, since pay in the legal, banking and management consultant sector can get stratospherically high, the job interview for that first position is ground zero for income inequality. It could be argued that those 45 minutes are when society decides who&#8217;s going to be the 1% of the future. Finding a successful employee is not an exact science, but it&#8217;s one of the key arts of management. Hiring the wrong person is an expensive mistake. And, yes, many of the candidates who apply for the elite jobs have had superior educations and worked really hard; that&#8217;s what gets them into the room. So what&#8217;s the secret sauce? As Rivera puts it in the study, &#8220;Employers sought candidates who were not only competent but also culturally similar to themselves.&#8221; This is not so surprising; a firm&#8217;s culture is important. It&#8217;s how one<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=75290&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Teens Grow Up to Be Wealthier Too</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which comes first, happiness or money? Much scholarly head tapping has been devoted to examining whether richer people are happier and if so, how much richer? Nobel prize-winners have even looked into it. But a new study suggests that the question could perhaps be looked at the other way around. Happier teenagers, this study suggests, grow up to be richer adults. The study, which appeared recently in the Proceedings of the National Association of Sciences, looked at thousands of teenagers and found that those who felt better about life as young adults tended to have higher incomes by the time they turned 29. Their happiness was measured on a scale of 1 to 5. Those who were happiest earned an average of $8,000 more than those who were the most despondent. Read More: Study or Sleep? For Better Grades, Teens Should Go to Bed Early The researchers, from University College London and the University of Warwick, used American data from the 10,000 strong survey known as Add Health, and say that their findings held firm even when factoring other variables that also tend to influence both happiness and wealth, such as IQ, education level, self esteem and even height. Very gloomy teens, no matter how tall or smart they were, earned 10% less than their peers, while more exuberant ones earned up to 30% more. When the researchers repeated the study with sibling pairs—youngsters with the same parents and socio-economic backgrounds—the happier ones continued to earn bigger paychecks (which probably didn&#8217;t help the mood of the already more gloomy ones.) It may be that happier teenagers have an easier time getting through school, college and a job interview, partly because they feel better about life generally. It may also be true that happier people find it easier to make friends, who are often the key to homework help or networking. Let&#8217;s face it, Winnie the Pooh is more popular than Eeyore. And Big Bird is more popular than Oscar the Grouch. Read More: A New Neighborhood May Boost Health and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=74380&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tracing the Link Between Single Moms and Gun Violence</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/10/19/tracing-the-link-between-single-moms-and-gun-violence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[mitt romney]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there a correlation between single parents and gun violence?  A wave of scorn swept through the social-media swamp after Mitt Romney brought up single mothers while discussing gun control during the town-hall presidential debate on Oct. 16.  What do the statistics say? Romney’s words — and the governor was not at his most articulate — did not actually draw a straight line between gun violence and being raised by a single mother. But while answering a question on gun regulation, he ventured into Dan Quayle–Murphy Brown territory. “We need moms and dads helping raise kids. Wherever possible, the — the benefit of having two parents in the home — and that’s not always possible.&#8221; This is not a statement that lends itself to fact checking. But a couple of researchers wondered how much gun violence was in fact perpetrated by the progeny of single parents. (MORE: According to a Wisconsin Bill, Single Moms Are a Child-Abuse Threat) Philip Cohen, a sociologist at the University of Maryland, College Park, is not convinced that getting people married is the answer. On his blog, he provides a helpful chart in which he compares the number of violent crimes (which has been going down since 1990) with the number of single moms (which has been going up in the same period). Studies overwhelmingly suggest that children who grow up in stable two-parent families do better on a long list of measures than those whose families have fragmented. This does not mean, of course, that every child with two parents does better than every child with one. Nor does it necessarily mean that the family structure is the primary force at work. It may just be that stable two-parent families are richer; in most cases, for example, they can achieve economies of scale that are not possible for single-parent families, and this wealth opens up more opportunities for education and other experiences. It’s also true that wealthy well-educated people are more picky about when they have children and with whom: they marry later, are<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=71844&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A with P90X Creator and Fitness Guru Tony Horton</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/08/30/qa-with-p90x-creator-and-fitness-guru-tony-horton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diet & Fitness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Horton is the creator and marketer of the P90x, a set of workout DVDs that Paul Ryan credits for keeping him in shape. I quizzed him about fitness, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the congressional gym. Obviously P90X has been very good for Congressman Paul Ryan.  Has Paul Ryan been good for P90X?  I think Paul Ryan’s been very good for P90X, as much or more so as Michelle Obama.  I’ve worked with the First Lady and her Let’s Move campaign, and more than half the Secret Service came up to me and said, hey man, we’re really loving the P90X.  I’m well aware that they’re using it in the White House. I’ve been to the congressional gym I think, seven or eight times. Is that a good gym? It’s surprisingly modest; it’s Democrats and Republicans coming together to share this thing they both enjoy; Paul Ryan and [North Carolina Rep.] Heath Shuler, a Democrat, started the whole thing.  Initially they were the only two in the gym doing the program.  Now men and women from both sides of the aisle come in, they set all their issues aside. (MORE: Paul Ryan’s Killer Workout: Is P90X for You?) So maybe when they’re in there sweating and they’re in, say, their 45th minute, you could just subtly say, let’s talk about the national debt? Seriously, I just don’t go there. It’s not really appropriate to talk about those kinds of things. You’re 54 and you’re incredibly cut. Also you also don’t have any wrinkles. Does the p90x give you a smooth forehead? ? I avoid the sun. I drink tons of water. I don’t drink any alcohol whatsoever. No caffeine. I take quite a few supplements, I mean, I just follow directions. Recently you tweeted “aging is for idiots.” Isn’t dying the only option? Well nobody gets out alive, right?  At 54 years old, I don’t care about aesthetics so much, but I care about being able to climb up 25 foot ropes and doing backflips off a wall. It’s just really<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=67681&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TIME&#8217;s Mobile Tech Issue: Tracking Disease, One Text at a Time</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/08/15/disease-cant-hide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Accurate bookkeeping is on nobody’s list of heroic acts. But without it, some revolutions are impossible, including the overhaul of a nation’s health care infrastructure. And Uganda’s health care system needs quite an overhaul. There aren’t enough doctors, just 131 hospitals serve nearly 36 million people, and children are dying of treatable diseases, especially malaria, which accounts for up to 40% of medical visits and almost a quarter of deaths among kids under 5. The Ugandan Ministry of Health and various NGOs have tried to address the issue with smaller clinics and volunteer village health team workers, some of whom dispense drugs. Malaria can be held at bay with artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs). But too often, Ugandans who turn up at local clinics cannot get them. There isn’t a shortage of medicine, but supply lines to the clinics have gotten snarled or the drugs have been diverted to private clinics. Without accounting, it’s impossible to untangle the knot. (MORE: TIME&#8217;s Mobility Poll) While Uganda may not have enough hospitals, it’s well served by cellular carriers. A third of Ugandans have mobile phones, which are widely shared. They’re not smart phones — the only app most of these $7 handsets offer is a flashlight — but they can send texts. For all the apps and gee-whiz features of phones, their ultimate transformative power is the ability of one person, no matter where he or she is, to communicate with another. In developing nations, the simple text message represents a quantum leap in connectivity. (MORE: Three Myths About Cell Phones) In a new initiative called mTrac, supported by UNICEF and the World Health Organization, health workers using these phones to text details of drug supplies and disease outbreaks that they had previously put on paper. This information is amassed and coded into a kind of online dashboard so that public-health officials can see in real time what’s going on. “It’s easy to track who has a lot of medicine and who has none and to move the stock from one clinic to the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=66528&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do: Polygamy Raises Its Profile in America</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/07/26/i-do-i-do-i-do-i-do-polygamy-raises-its-profile-in-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Polygamy is one of the few practices that still evoke genuine disgust in people. It&#8217;s a watchword for ignorance, sexual depredation, oppression of women and weird, culty outfits. But spurred on by the same-sex marriage debate and more-sympathetic portrayals of polygamists and polyamorists in our larger culture, some plural families are coming out of the shadows and beginning to advocate for their way of life. One of these families, the Dargers, independent fundamentalist Mormons, invited me into their home to check out how they live. I report about it in the Aug. 6 issue of TIME, which subscribers can read here. The Dargers are a model non-monogamous family. They&#8217;re attractive, they dress well, and they labor mightily to provide for their 23 kids. This helps because their setup is pretty weird: Joe, the patriarch, is married to three women, two of whom are identical twin sisters. He married one of those sisters (Vicki) and another woman (Alina) at the same time, after dating them at the same time, all at the women&#8217;s consent. It gets weirder. Val, the other twin, was married to another polygamous guy and had five kids with him before she fled. Vicki and Alina told Joe that he should marry her too, they say. So he did. But for a deeply unconventional family, they look pretty normal. (Watch a video about their life here.) They live together in a cheerfully messy house outside Salt Lake City, with three master bedrooms, boatloads of items bought in bulk and eye-watering amounts of laundry. Unlike the adherents of more closed fundamentalist Mormon sects, like the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, headed by Warren Jeffs, the Dargers are independent fundamentalists, sort of Polygamists 2.0. The way they live is a felony in Utah, but nobody is coming after them. (Arizona tried that in 1953, with rather dire results, documented in this fantastic LIFE photo-essay.) The Dargers and Kody Brown&#8217;s family, who star in the TLC reality show Sister Wives and wrote the New York Times best seller<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=64633&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The TomKat Split: Divorce in America by the Numbers</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/07/06/the-tomkat-split-divorce-in-america-by-the-numbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 18:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Divorce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are getting divorced. Their marital liquidation was preceded by news of another: Dominique Strauss Kahn, former head of the IMF and former defendant in a sexual assault case, was reportedly being left by his hitherto supernaturally loyal wife, Anne Sinclair. The two men have something in common; or rather, the two departing women have something in common: they’re both third wives. While Holmes&#8217; divorce filing apparently blindsided Mr Cruise, who was away on location filming a movie, neither split was all that unexpected. It&#8217;s not just because celebrity magazines have been predicting a TomKat rupture since the day their wedding vows were uttered, or that, you know, Mr. Strauss Kahn was a cheat. It&#8217;s because third marriages break up more often than first or second unions. (MORE: Planning a Vacation…With Your Ex-Spouse?) There&#8217;s a figure floating around the Internet that some 70% of third marriages fail, but the real numbers tell a slightly different story. It’s also commonly agreed that about half of all marriages fall apart, but while true, that stat also doesn&#8217;t tell the full story. Overall, divorce rates are actually falling. And among the well-educated and wealthy who marry after the age of 26, they&#8217;re falling quite dramatically. The vast majority of American marriages between two people like Cruise and Holmes make it to the 10-year mark. (Theirs lasted six.) About 30% of people in Cruise’s demographic — white American men between the ages of 40 and 49 (Cruise&#8217;s age when Holmes filed for divorce) — have ever been divorced, according to the most recent (2009) Census figures. And half of them had remarried. About 12% of those guys had then divorced again. That is, 24% of fortysomething white guys&#8217; second marriages had failed. Which brings us to third marriages, after which point the Census stops counting. It feels like a lot of people are in — or leaving — their third marriage (hello, Kelsey Grammer!), but they aren’t. Cruise&#8217;s case is quite unusual (even apart from<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=63412&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Other Health Care Announcement: A Tool Kit for the World&#8217;s Mentally Ill</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/06/29/the-other-health-care-announcement-a-tool-kit-for-the-worlds-mentally-ill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Depression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the Supreme Court was making health care news in Washington, a smaller gathering at the United Nations was discussing a lesser-known agenda that could impact the care of many more people<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=63013&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Volleys in the Gay Parenting Wars</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/06/22/new-volleys-in-the-gay-parenting-wars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the discussion over gay parenting becoming the abortion debate of the new era? In the days since the release of a controversial study finding that children of gay parents fare worse than those of straight, married parents, the discussion over the results has reached ear-piercing levels. Intemperate words have been spoken. Accusations have been flung. And — in the roundhouse of academic fisticuffs — a competing study has been released. The initial New Families Structure Study (NFSS), conducted by University of Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus, found that the adult children of parents who have had same-sex relationships did worse socially, economically and psychologically than children raised in intact biological families. Based on the results, Regnerus concluded that the widely held notion that gay parenting is no different from straight parenting when it comes to children&#8217;s well-being was wrong. It wasn&#8217;t long, however, before the NFSS, which was conducted very differently than the research that came before, was savaged like an old steak in a wolf pit. It&#8217;s &#8220;junk science&#8221; that &#8220;inflicts harm on loving families,&#8221; said GLAAD President Herndon Graddick. The &#8220;so-called study doesn’t match 30 years of scientific research,&#8221; noted Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin. Jennifer Chrisler of the Family Equality Council warned of &#8220;flawed methodology and misleading conclusions all driven by a right-wing ideology.&#8221; Even the New Yorker called it &#8220;breathtakingly sloppy.&#8221; Ooh, snap. (MORE: My Two Moms&#8217; Zach Wahls: Teen Advocate for Gay Marriage Goes from YouTube Sensation to Author) What made Regnerus&#8217; study different and stronger than the ones that came before was that it was nationally representative; it looked at a whole group of people, among whom some were gay and some were straight. So, as far as the recruitment of the study group went, it compared like with like. Previous studies were &#8220;snowball studies&#8221;; for example, they relied on a small number (fewer than 80) of lesbian mothers who were recruited through lesbian networks and bookstores and were therefore likely to be more activist and educated, and then compared them with heterosexual families recruited in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=62510&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do Children of Same-Sex Parents Really Fare Worse?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/06/11/do-children-of-same-sex-parents-really-fare-worse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adult children of parents who have had same-sex partners sometimes fare measurably worse than adult children from long-term heterosexual married parents. So say the results of a new and sure-to-be-controversial study by Mark Regnerus, a sociologist at the University of Texas at Austin. The study — the New Family Structures Study (NFSS) — is bound to put the cat among the pigeons, because it counters previous research on the well-being of children of gay and lesbian parents, which has found that these kids don&#8217;t grow up to be much different from those of married hetero couples and that, in fact, kids of lesbian parents are often better adjusted and emotionally healthier. (MORE: Modern Family: More Likely to Be Multigenerational, Unmarried or Interracial) The NFSS, in contrast, found that adult children of people who have had same-sex relationships were more than twice as likely as children from intact straight homes to be in therapy “for a problem connected with anxiety, depression, relationships, etc.,” more likely to be on public assistance (but, importantly, also more likely to have been raised with public assistance), less likely to have a full-time job, less likely to have voted in the 2008 elections and tended to have achieved less formal education. “The empirical claim for no differences [between being raised by heterosexual and homosexual parents] has to go,” says Regnerus. These effects appeared to be more marked for people whose mothers had had a same-sex relationship than those whose fathers had. And this was especially true after controlling for such contributing factors as the respondent’s age, gender or race, parental education, perceived wealth, whether they had been bullied and how gay-friendly their state was. Adult children of lesbian mothers were more likely than children of hetero parents to cheat on their own partners, smoke marijuana and get arrested. Grimly, an eye-opening 23% of respondents whose mother had had a lesbian relationship said they had been abused sexually by a parent or adult caregiver, as opposed to 2% of children of hetero couples. (The study stresses, however, that it<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=61595&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Online Dating Gets a Little Less Virtual</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/18/online-dating-gets-a-little-less-virtual/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 14:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Romance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online dating, it&#8217;s now universally agreed, has its limits. Among the two biggest glitches: dates who look nothing like their profile pictures and dates who are happy to email but decline to ever actually go on a bodily, non-virtual date. In an effort to combat such digital diversionary tactics, one of the biggest online dating services, Match.com, has decided to get people out from behind their computers to come out and play. Ironic, no? Regular dating has its glitches too, including extreme initial awkwardness when two people first meet and the even extremer awkwardness of the next few hours when a date proves to be a nonstarter. Match.com believes that with its database of single-but-searching folks, its algorithm for finding compatibility and a little bit of alcohol, it can put together a heck of a singles mixer. (MORE: Survey Says, He’s Just Not That Into Being Single) The company has been quietly inviting members to gatherings for the past few years — so far, it has hosted about 60 singles events. After all, it knows where the singles are, and it knows what they say they like. So encouraged has Match been by the results, it&#8217;s just launched an event service known as Stir, which will host 2,000 to 3,000 singles parties a year, hitting 24 cities in June and 70 in September. Since everyone at the events  is looking for a date, the awkwardness is a shared burden and will be easier to shrug off, reasons the company. Also, the dating service is digging deep into its database of 3 million singles, so it can slice and dice the guest list. If it wanted to host a singles event on the south side of Topeka in which everybody was a single parent between the ages of 30 and 40 with an interest in Shar-Pei breeding, it could do that — all while making sure that the ratio of male to female dog lovers is perfectly balanced. Many companies have already tried to spin their online presence into a singles meetup<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=59561&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Talk About Ourselves: The Brain Likes It</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/08/why-we-overshare-the-brain-likes-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 12:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science has now proved what kindergarten teachers, reality-show fans and Catholic priests discover anew every day: humans can&#8217;t help talking about themselves. It just feels too good. In a new study [PDF] published in the respected Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Harvard University researchers conducted a series of experiments to assess how much people liked talking about themselves and why. In one study, they scanned people&#8217;s brains while those people either revealed personal information about themselves or judged the personalities or opinions of others. In another experiment, researchers tested whether people preferred to answer questions about themselves, other people or neutral facts — participants got differing levels of monetary compensation depending on the question they chose. Yet another study explored whether people wanted to share their answers with others or keep them to themselves. No matter the test, the researchers, led by Diana I. Tamir and Jason P. Mitchell at Harvard&#8217;s psychology department, found the results pointed the same way: humans get a biochemical buzz from self-disclosure. (MORE: The Upside of Gossip: Social and Psychological Benefits) That&#8217;s why we spend almost 40% of conversation talking about ourselves, says the study — our brain chemistry drives us do it. In the experiment in which participants talked about either themselves or others during an fMRI scan, researchers found that sharing personal information led to activity in the reward areas of the brain — the same ones that are engaged in response to rewards like sex and food. Talking about other people did not trigger the circuits as much. In the study in which researchers offered people tiny amounts of money (between 1¢ and 4¢) for answering questions about themselves or others, people were willing to forgo 17% of their earnings in order to answer questions about themselves. When the payoff was equal, people chose to talk about themselves two-thirds of the time. The researchers noted that people particularly enjoyed self-disclosure if they knew other people were listening. When people were given a choice to share their responses with others or to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=59001&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Modern Family: More Likely to Be Multigenerational, Unmarried or Interracial</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/04/30/modern-family-more-likely-to-be-multigenerational-unmarried-or-interracial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New census data show that Americans are getting more creative in the way they play house. The number of non-family households, those New Girl-like homes where none of the residents are related by birth or marriage, grew twice as fast as family households in the last decade. And more people are living alone now than in the past. There&#8217;s also been a massive increase in unmarried couples living together, and a pretty steep climb in multigenerational families as well. When people get married, they&#8217;re also increasingly wedding those from another race. (MORE: Why Families Who Eat Together Are Healthier) This is not to say that the family unit is no longer the norm. Two-thirds of all homes in the U.S. contain people who are related to each other. A full 87% of Americans live with somebody they&#8217;re related to. And the married-couple paradigm is still the dominant form of household in the U.S., at a stalwart 48.4% — but it&#8217;s no longer in the majority, as it was during the last census, in 2000. The ecosystem that is America&#8217;s living arrangements is becoming more diverse. Most of this people have sensed already, either through experience or through the education provided by such cultural artifacts as Modern Family and Two and a Half Men. But the new Census Report on Households and Families, which was released on April 25, suggests we may be approaching some kind of tipping point, especially in regard to what some folks like to call miscegenation and living in sin. One-tenth of married couples in the U.S. are interracial, a growth of 27% since 2000. Unmarried couples are even more likely to be interracial: 18% of heterosexual couples and more than one-fifth of same sex couples have partners of a different ethnicity. And almost 7 million homes are headed by unmarried couples. (LIST:  Mixed-Race Celebrities on Race, in their Own Words) For all this, however, after married couples, the second most common type of household in the U.S. is the nearly empty one — homes with just one<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=58253&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Goodwin: The Dying Doctor&#8217;s Last Interview [VIDEO]</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/14/peter-goodwin-the-dying-doctors-last-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Peter Goodwin, a family physician and right-to-die activist, took his own life on March 11, 2012, at age 83. He did it legally, with the blessing of his family and doctors, under the Oregon law allowing physician-assisted suicide — the first such law in the country — that Goodwin was instrumental in creating. Dr. Goodwin granted TIME his last interview, four days before he died. (The full interview in the new issue of TIME is available to subscribers here.) He did not look like a dying man; he was chirpy and alert and still had a mischievous twinkle in his eye. However, as a result of his fatal disease — a Parkinsons-like condition called coritcobasal degeneration — he could not use his right hand or do much reliably with his left. Walking was difficult for him and stairs were particularly treacherous. He did not want to die, but death was coming anyway, and he did not want to wait. “I can no longer eat in public,” Goodwin said. “My balance is gradually deteriorating. My three doctors agree that I’m within six months of dying. My attending physician has given me a prescription for medication to end my life, and I have had it filled.” (MORE: As Tests to Predict Alzheimer’s Emerge, So May Debates over the Right to Die) In Oregon, doctors may not administer injections to end a life, but they are allowed to write prescriptions for lethal drugs for mentally competent people who are able to take the medication without help and have less than six months to live. And yes, the prescriptions are covered by health insurance. Dr. Goodwin took his life on Sunday not because he could not bear to live anymore nor because he was in incredible pain, but because he wanted to die among family. He timed his death so that his four children and their spouses could be there, including his younger son, who is a Navy pilot in Korea. During our interview, he wept several times at the thought of no<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=55386&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gingrich and the &#8216;Open Marriage&#8217; Question: How Newt Can Spin Things to His Advantage</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/20/gingrich-and-the-open-marriage-question-how-newt-can-spin-things-to-his-advantage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did the Speaker of the House really suggest to his second wife Marianne that they break their conjugal gridlock using a Newt-sharing program? Only two people know for sure: Marianne, who says her former husband did, in the death throes of their marriage, float the idea of opening the union to other trading partners, and Gingrich, who says that&#8217;s bunkum, that all their friends from that time will agree with him, and that to even ask him about it in a presidential debate &#8220;is as close to despicable as anything [he] can imagine.&#8221; But, honestly, how would these friends even know? Did the Gingriches mention it in their 1999 annual newsletter? &#8220;Considered open marriage. Decided against it. Merry Christmas!&#8221; Did Gingrich discuss it with buddies at the GOPAC? &#8220;Oh man, did my new initiative ever fail to make it through the house&#8230;&#8221; Can either of them even be relied on to retain an accurate memory of things that were said in as fraught a time as the end of a marriage? Marianne Gingrich appears to believe that her husband offered to stay married to her if she let him play house with then-congressional aide Callista Bisek, who is now his third wife. If that&#8217;s not what he had wanted, then he was either not on message or offering a straw man. Either way, it&#8217;s a mistake for Gingrich to act all huffy now about being asked about his ex-wife&#8217;s claims, which she is not, after all, making for the first time. You can say a lot of things about your spouse of 18 years, but you can&#8217;t pretend her opinion of you is ill-informed. When asked about the claims in the South Carolina debate, which was happening as Marianne&#8217;s interview aired on ABC on Thursday night, candidates Rick Santorum and Ron Paul talked vaguely about forgiveness and slipped in a reference to their own robust marriages, while Mitt Romney declined to weigh in, saying we needed to get back to the real issues. (Hello, Mr. Romney? If we&#8217;re thinking of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=51897&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For Love and Money: Why Men Spend More When Women Are Few</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When women are scarcer, new research finds that men tend to get all impulsive with their money, borrowing more and saving less, in much the same way that a male peacock will shake his tail feathers harder if there aren&#8217;t many peahens around. In Columbus, Ga., for example, there are 1.18 single men for every single woman. The average consumer debt is $3,479 higher there than in Macon, Ga., less than 100 miles away, where there were 0.78 single men for every woman. There are other differences between the two metropoles, but Vladas Griskevicius, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota&#8217;s Carlson School of Management thinks the sex ratio difference is a significant one. He and his team conducted a series of experiments in which they had participants read articles that suggested that the sex ratio was skewed one way or another. They were then asked questions about their immediate saving and borrowing plans. Men who read articles suggesting that females were scarce in their locality planned to save an average of 42% less and were willing to borrow 84% more for household expenditures. When men looked at photos with few men and many women and then were asked if they&#8217;d rather have $20 now or $30 in a month, more opted for the $20 than men who saw photos with a more gender-balanced group. VIDEO: 10 Questions with Suze Orman &#8220;It makes sense from an economic perspective,&#8221; says Griskevicius, because when any resource is in short supply it costs more to get it. &#8220;But all these things were happening unconsciously. The men weren&#8217;t aware that they were responding in that way.&#8221; And it wasn&#8217;t just that the men planned to spend money on women. They also intended to lay out cash for things that would &#8220;ward off the rivals and impress the mates,&#8221; such as fancier cars, fancier clothes and fancier lodgings. The women in the study, which was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, weren&#8217;t much moved by a man deficit to throw greenbacks<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=51684&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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