Posts Tagged: ‘maternity’

Preliminary research from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine indicates that lost sleep affects women less potently than it affects men. When men and women only snooze for six hours or less throughout the workweek, cognitive performance takes a hit, which accumulates over time as well. Even sleeping in during the weekend isn’t enough to make up the difference — especially in men.

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All the flurry over Schwarzenegger’s ‘out-of-wedlock’ birth got me thinking about the language we use to discuss babies born to unmarried or married-but-not-to-each-other parents. To me, terms like “out-of-wedlock children” and “unwed mothers” have a culturally negative ring to them, echoing more flagrantly offensive descriptors, “bastard” and “illegitimate.” Moreover, they seem outdated since out-of-wedlock births aren’t out of the ordinary anymore.

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