“Ready to Wed? No, Mom…” With same-sex marriage now legal in New York, some gay sons and daughters are starting to feel the same heat from parents as their straight siblings do. NY Times writer, Tim Murphy, spoke to Ackerman Institute faculty member, Jean Malpas to garner his professional opinion to how to let parents […]

“Old Wounds, New Discoveries” Chicago Tribune writer, Nara Schoenberg, asks Ackerman Institute’s Dr. Evan Imber-Black to weigh in on family secrets and the basic guidelines for absorbing shocking family revelations, large and small. Read the full article on the Chicago Tribune website, click here.

Recent Grads: How to Survive Moving Back Home Ackerman Institute’s Lois Braverman was interviewed by Metro’s Cassandra Garrison about how young adults and families should deal with moving back home after college. She says, “I would have the young adult say to themselves, ‘What do I know will make things the calmest and the smoothest?

“Runaway Brides Challenge Stigma Against Unmarried Women” Peter Fraenkel, director of the Ackerman Institute for the Family’s Center for Work and Family, discussed the runaway bride in this Huffington Post article by Katherine Bindley. He sees the willingness to question an upcoming wedding as a good thing. He finds that engaged couples today are more

Telling Secrets in the Family An interview with Ackerman Institute’s Evan Imber-Black about how to tell a family secret thoughtfully and well. In contrast to televised and sensationalist secret telling in front of mass audiences, Dr. Imber-Black works with families to prepare carefully before revealing important secrets. She tells stories from her work about the

Professional Help: 5 Tips for Those Raising Transgender Children Jean Malpas, director of Ackerman Institute’s Gender and Family Project, offers professional help and five tips for parents raising transgender children. To read the full article, visit the Atlantic website.

“Adult Sexting: Does it Help or Hurt Relationships?” by Emma GrayBeing on the receiving end of an unsolicited sext can be a dangerous situation, especially when it crosses the line into harassment. “When it’s used as [a tool for] flirtation among adults … it’s very very risky, both for the sender and receiver,” says Lois

S/HE by Jesse Green Jean Malpas draws for me what a mother once drew for him: something she called a “gender cookie cutter.” It’s a blobby gingerbread person on which various currently understood components of gender are mapped. There’s biological gender, a matter of chromosomes and genitals, indicated with a circle around the gingerbread crotch.