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GSS measure of ideal number of children", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2025/02/15/it-might-be-time-to-retire-the-gss-measure-of-ideal-number-of-children/", "published_at": "2025-02-15T13:27:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53b-eb27-72cb-a7ef-ab98b271e0e1", "title": "In LSE Impact: We are all losers in Trump’s ‘common sense’ war on social science", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/in-lse-impact-we-are-all-losers-in-trumps-common-sense-war-on-social-science/", "published_at": "2025-02-14T14:42:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53b-eb27-72cb-a7ef-ab98b2e3f59e", "title": "Ask yourself now what you’re willing to be fired over", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/ask-yourself-now-what-youre-willing-to-be-fired-over/", "published_at": "2025-02-02T16:34:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c53b-eb27-72cb-a7ef-ab98b3c773a0", "title": "Gender, Work, and Family 2025 graduate seminar", "url": 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That’s the wrong question", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/12/07/are-too-many-children-transitioning-thats-the-wrong-question/", "published_at": "2024-12-07T20:17:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c544-e472-7149-b531-7b5de76ff359", "title": "Twenty-four books I read in 2024", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/11/30/twenty-four-books-i-read-in-2024/", "published_at": "2024-11-30T13:51:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c544-e472-7149-b531-7b5de83fcdef", "title": "Elon Musk’s father is quite racist, too, and pronatalism is an authoritarian boy toy (I told Sky News)", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/elon-musks-father-is-quite-racist-too-and-pronatalism-is-an-authoritarian-boy-toy-i-told-sky-news/", "published_at": "2024-11-27T19:29:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c544-e472-7149-b531-7b5de88cd0d1", "title": "Parenting beyond magic (that NY Times story about switched embryos)", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/11/26/parenting-beyond-magic-that-ny-times-story-about-switched-embryos/", "published_at": "2024-11-26T19:39:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c544-e472-7149-b531-7b5de924f7cc", "title": "Trump is a fascist but this isn’t Nazi Germany", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/11/23/trump-is-a-fascist-but-this-isnt-nazi-germany/", "published_at": "2024-11-23T12:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c544-e472-7149-b531-7b5de994bbcf", "title": "A unit on genocide for a Social Problems undergraduate class", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/11/19/a-unit-on-genocide-for-a-social-problems-undergraduate-class/", "published_at": "2024-11-19T11:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c544-e472-7149-b531-7b5de9bc3144", "title": "Why I’m joining the American Sociological Association again (because of fascism)", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/11/17/why-im-joining-the-american-sociological-association-again-because-of-fascism/", "published_at": "2024-11-17T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c544-e472-7149-b531-7b5dea9926e6", "title": "Pronatalism won’t work but the far right loves it anyway (me in The Hill)", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/11/06/pronatalism-wont-work-but-the-far-right-loves-it-anyway-me-in-the-hill/", "published_at": "2024-11-06T22:33:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54d-a067-70e7-b6fd-ea8d52ed6ec3", "title": "Replication and extension of NYTimes Upshot analysis of White men without college degrees", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/10/27/replication-and-extension-of-nytimes-upshot-analysis-of-white-men-without-college-degrees/", "published_at": "2024-10-27T15:11:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54d-a067-70e7-b6fd-ea8d53cd639e", "title": "Lilly Ledbetter and that time I testified before the Senate HELP Committee on equal pay", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/10/23/lilly-ledbetter-and-that-time-i-testified-before-the-senate-help-committee-on-equal-pay/", "published_at": "2024-10-23T20:39:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54d-a067-70e7-b6fd-ea8d54b5dc56", "title": "Pronatalism’s tough math", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/10/20/pronatalisms-tough-math/", "published_at": "2024-10-20T18:50:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54d-a067-70e7-b6fd-ea8d55096e2c", "title": "The wealth of the three richest men could eliminate US child poverty for 10 years", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/10/14/the-wealth-of-the-three-richest-men-could-eliminate-us-child-poverty-for-10-years/", "published_at": "2024-10-14T18:06:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54d-a067-70e7-b6fd-ea8d55603c97", "title": "There is no high-development fertility rebound", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/10/12/there-is-no-high-development-fertility-rebound/", "published_at": "2024-10-12T19:53:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54d-a067-70e7-b6fd-ea8d563657e8", "title": "You know what’s really migrant crime? Trump and ICE, and people who know better should explain this stuff", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/09/29/you-know-whats-really-migrant-crime-trump-and-ice-and-people-who-know-better-should-explain-this-stuff/", "published_at": "2024-09-29T16:15:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54d-a067-70e7-b6fd-ea8d571cadce", "title": "That time a book publisher ignored my negative review", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/09/27/that-time-a-book-publisher-ignored-my-negative-review/", "published_at": "2024-09-27T21:12:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54d-a067-70e7-b6fd-ea8d57e7d4fd", "title": "How E.D. Hirsch coined the Cohen Curve and gave me credit for the opposite of what I said", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/09/23/how-e-d-hirsch-coined-the-cohen-curve-and-gave-me-credit-for-the-opposite-of-what-i-said/", "published_at": "2024-09-23T15:36:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54d-a067-70e7-b6fd-ea8d58e3285b", "title": "JD Vance says, “aggressively attack the universities in this country,” promotes my new book", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/09/09/jd-vance-says-aggressively-attack-the-universities-in-this-country-promotes-my-new-book/", "published_at": "2024-09-09T12:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54d-a067-70e7-b6fd-ea8d595505a4", "title": "Demographic facts college students need to know today", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/09/02/demographic-facts-college-students-need-to-know-today/", "published_at": "2024-09-03T01:20:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-2211-72ec-932f-a5ad0cc2ffa6", "title": "Between the lines, Trump is racist/sexist and Vance hates children", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/08/29/between-the-lines-trump-is-racist-sexist-and-vance-hates-children/", "published_at": "2024-08-30T01:55:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-2211-72ec-932f-a5ad0d524f13", "title": "New research on the state of sociology", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/08/18/new-research-on-the-state-of-sociology/", "published_at": "2024-08-18T14:57:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-2211-72ec-932f-a5ad0db24e37", "title": "The definitive explanation for why neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris are Baby Boomers", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/08/11/the-definitive-explanation-for-why-neither-donald-trump-nor-kamala-harris-are-baby-boomers/", "published_at": "2024-08-11T12:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-2211-72ec-932f-a5ad0defed51", "title": "Presidential candidate height situation befuddled by gender", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/08/08/presidential-candidate-height-situation-befuddled-by-gender/", "published_at": "2024-08-08T20:03:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-2211-72ec-932f-a5ad0e4ea63f", "title": "Living and learning as if binary identities aren’t everything", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/07/24/living-and-learning-as-if-binary-identities-arent-everything/", "published_at": "2024-07-24T12:52:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-2211-72ec-932f-a5ad0f49feea", "title": "The Trumpist right, where young women work with old men", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/07/23/the-trumpist-right-where-young-women-work-with-old-men/", "published_at": "2024-07-23T12:38:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-2211-72ec-932f-a5ad0f6e4bf2", "title": "There is little evidence for reversing low fertility rates", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/07/20/there-is-very-little-evidence-base-for-reversing-low-fertility-rates/", "published_at": "2024-07-20T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-2211-72ec-932f-a5ad105c52d2", "title": "The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change 4th edition now out in print", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/07/05/the-family-diversity-inequality-and-social-change-4th-edition-now-out-in-print/", "published_at": "2024-07-05T11:37:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-2211-72ec-932f-a5ad114423e2", "title": "Population implosion collapse chaos, pronatalist billionaire discourse edition", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/06/23/population-implosion-collapse-chaos-pronatalist-billionaire-discourse-edition/", "published_at": "2024-06-23T12:16:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c556-2211-72ec-932f-a5ad120bbb2d", "title": "If I boycott Israeli state academia, should you boycott America?", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/06/18/if-i-boycott-israeli-state-academia-should-you-boycott-america/", "published_at": "2024-06-18T18:40:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55e-3e52-72a0-b1e0-63f35e6fe6f6", "title": "Giving girls surnames as first names has peaked, for now", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/05/25/giving-girls-surnames-as-first-names-has-peaked-for-now/", "published_at": "2024-05-25T10:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55e-3e52-72a0-b1e0-63f35e9c2153", "title": "Cohabitation displacing marriage", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/05/24/cohabitation-displacing-marriage/", "published_at": "2024-05-24T19:00:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55e-3e52-72a0-b1e0-63f35f787e33", "title": "The definitive US baby name popularity and androgyny update for 2023", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/05/13/the-definitive-us-baby-name-popularity-and-androgyny-update-for-2023/", "published_at": "2024-05-13T11:29:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55e-3e52-72a0-b1e0-63f36042b440", "title": "x-axis manipulation and depopulation panic", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/05/06/x-axis-manipulation-and-depopulation-panic/", "published_at": "2024-05-06T18:52:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55e-3e52-72a0-b1e0-63f360de6917", "title": "(Scholar) Activism and active citizenship", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/05/05/scholar-activism-and-active-citizenship/", "published_at": "2024-05-05T12:25:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55e-3e52-72a0-b1e0-63f360e16558", "title": "From Baby Bust to ongoing fertility collapse (just kidding)", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/05/02/from-baby-bust-to-ongoing-fertility-collapse-just-kidding/", "published_at": "2024-05-02T19:29:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55e-3e52-72a0-b1e0-63f3610c5669", "title": "Why I endorse the Sociologists for Palestine resolution", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/04/20/why-i-endorse-the-sociologists-for-palestine-resolution/", "published_at": "2024-04-20T15:54:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55e-3e52-72a0-b1e0-63f3618c2c14", "title": "Nationalism eats your moral brain", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/04/11/nationalism-eats-your-moral-brain/", "published_at": "2024-04-11T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55e-3e52-72a0-b1e0-63f362236b00", "title": "Declining a review for the Israel Science Foundation, explained", "url": "https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/03/23/declining-a-review-for-the-israel-science-foundation-explained/", "published_at": "2024-03-23T15:02:08+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Inconceivable takes insecurity too faroriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
Demographic facts college students should know in 2026original ↗
24 Aug 2026
Demographic crisis framing is everywhereoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2026
It’s not bigotry to say Lyman Stone is a bigotoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2026
My Zepbound yearoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2026
My mother, Avis H. Cohen, woman in science (1941-2026)original ↗
15 Jun 2026
Stephanie Coontz brings it home with For Better and Worseoriginal ↗
27 May 2026
Did AI cause the phones-cause-depopulation hype cycle?original ↗
25 May 2026
CBS Radio and the way we were, WHCU editionoriginal ↗
23 May 2026
The definitive US baby name popularity and androgyny update for 2025original ↗
15 May 2026
Pronatalism is not sending their bestoriginal ↗
9 May 2026
Most Americans who aren’t having children don’t want to (and not because of the environment)original ↗
13 Mar 2026
Which jobs make a meaningful contribution to the world?original ↗
9 Mar 2026
There is a tsunami of fake social science research coming for us, and the American Sociological Association doesn’t careoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2026
Factcheck: Conservatives want children, Democrats want sexual devianceoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2026
I was on Emily Oster’s podcast about marriage and didn’t even know itoriginal ↗
6 Feb 2026
Now in The Conversation: ‘Expertise’ shouldn’t be a bad word – expert consensus guides science and societyoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2026
Inflaming population decline with math (generations bonus edition)original ↗
20 Jan 2026
Comment on After the Spike at UCLA eventoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2026

2025

Down the hatch, 2025original ↗
23 Dec 2025
Year end book rounduporiginal ↗
14 Dec 2025
Another update on American Sociological Review’s failure to meet current social science standardsoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2025
Me against pronatalism, now in The New Republicoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2025
Update: Political divide over science widening more (and now including moderates)original ↗
6 Dec 2025
Stopping rules don’t affect the population’s sex ratio at birthoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2025
No two demographic transitions are alike, except when they are (China v. India, etc)original ↗
1 Dec 2025
Ideal (family size) compared to what?original ↗
23 Nov 2025
Child poverty in 2024 was a $62 billion problemoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2025
Let’s all use the right fertility rate terms and definitionsoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2025
Four variables that say a lot about the USA today (name the scale)original ↗
29 Sept 2025
War on science, Douthat credulity editionoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2025
South Carolina has a lot of churchesoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2025
Negative perception of falling birth rates in the U.S. is associated with right-wing people and beliefsoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2025
Data viz: Who thinks it’s bad if Americans have fewer children?original ↗
7 Sept 2025
Reproductive agency and the power to not have a childoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2025
Origin of the term “race suicide” in 1901original ↗
20 Aug 2025
What is growth for, JC Kumarappa editionoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2025
The rising marital birth rate and its emerging SES slope in the U.S., not explainedoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2025
Women rule 23.5% of the world’s populationoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2025
Fertility trends, inequality, and economic growth doodlesoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2025
Brad Wilcox’s never-ending Marry Taleoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2025
In The Hill: Views from the front lines of Trump’s war on the science communityoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2025
That time the Myrdals projected Sweden’s future population in 1941original ↗
11 Jul 2025
In which I give Lyman Stone’s complaint the attention it deservesoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2025
Does cultural diversity cushion the decline of fertility rates?original ↗
16 Jun 2025
Projections show that increasing the birth rate (as if you could) is the wrong way to get more workersoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2025
Brad Wilcox lies a lot, part whateveroriginal ↗
7 Jun 2025
The definitive US baby name popularity and androgyny update for 2024original ↗
11 May 2025
Philip Cohen on How “Citizen Scholars” Can Engage with the Public in Uncertain Timesoriginal ↗
3 May 2025
Trusting Lyman Stone, and the gathering crisis of expertiseoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2025
U.S. conservative Christians’ girl names, rankedoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2025
Hands Off DC 2025, in picturesoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2025
Open Science keynote at Max Planck Institute in Rostock (audio version)original ↗
3 Apr 2025
New report shows more US births to older mothers can’t replace declines at younger agesoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2025
Elon Musk’s comment on empathy is much worse than you thoughtoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2025
Occupation gender segregation and birth rates in the U.S.original ↗
23 Feb 2025
It might be time to retire the GSS measure of ideal number of childrenoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2025
In LSE Impact: We are all losers in Trump’s ‘common sense’ war on social scienceoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2025
Ask yourself now what you’re willing to be fired overoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2025
Gender, Work, and Family 2025 graduate seminaroriginal ↗
21 Jan 2025
Seeing MAGA’s facesoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2025
Write as if the Truth Really Mattersoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2025

2024

What choice do we have (2024 output in review)original ↗
22 Dec 2024
Are too many children transitioning? That’s the wrong questionoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2024
Twenty-four books I read in 2024original ↗
30 Nov 2024
Elon Musk’s father is quite racist, too, and pronatalism is an authoritarian boy toy (I told Sky News)original ↗
27 Nov 2024
Parenting beyond magic (that NY Times story about switched embryos)original ↗
26 Nov 2024
Trump is a fascist but this isn’t Nazi Germanyoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2024
A unit on genocide for a Social Problems undergraduate classoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2024
Why I’m joining the American Sociological Association again (because of fascism)original ↗
17 Nov 2024
Pronatalism won’t work but the far right loves it anyway (me in The Hill)original ↗
6 Nov 2024
Replication and extension of NYTimes Upshot analysis of White men without college degreesoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2024
Lilly Ledbetter and that time I testified before the Senate HELP Committee on equal payoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2024
Pronatalism’s tough mathoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2024
The wealth of the three richest men could eliminate US child poverty for 10 yearsoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2024
There is no high-development fertility reboundoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2024
You know what’s really migrant crime? Trump and ICE, and people who know better should explain this stufforiginal ↗
29 Sept 2024
That time a book publisher ignored my negative revieworiginal ↗
27 Sept 2024
How E.D. Hirsch coined the Cohen Curve and gave me credit for the opposite of what I saidoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2024
JD Vance says, “aggressively attack the universities in this country,” promotes my new bookoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2024
Demographic facts college students need to know todayoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2024
Between the lines, Trump is racist/sexist and Vance hates childrenoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2024
New research on the state of sociologyoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2024
The definitive explanation for why neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris are Baby Boomersoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2024
Presidential candidate height situation befuddled by genderoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2024
Living and learning as if binary identities aren’t everythingoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2024
The Trumpist right, where young women work with old menoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2024
There is little evidence for reversing low fertility ratesoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2024
The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change 4th edition now out in printoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2024
Population implosion collapse chaos, pronatalist billionaire discourse editionoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2024
If I boycott Israeli state academia, should you boycott America?original ↗
18 Jun 2024
Giving girls surnames as first names has peaked, for noworiginal ↗
25 May 2024
Cohabitation displacing marriageoriginal ↗
24 May 2024
The definitive US baby name popularity and androgyny update for 2023original ↗
13 May 2024
x-axis manipulation and depopulation panicoriginal ↗
6 May 2024
(Scholar) Activism and active citizenshiporiginal ↗
5 May 2024
From Baby Bust to ongoing fertility collapse (just kidding)original ↗
2 May 2024
Why I endorse the Sociologists for Palestine resolutionoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2024
Nationalism eats your moral brainoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2024
Declining a review for the Israel Science Foundation, explainedoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2024
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