There's been a lot written about "helicopter" parents.  Are parents really hovering over their kids too much? Maybe. Maybe not.  Is it just the times?  The economy? What do kids need as we parents "launch" the young adult?

Carl Jung had a word for the eeriness when two or more unrelated events occur together in a seemingly meaningful way—Synchronicity. This past week, I came to appreciate this concept that heretofore has seemed like magical thinking. I just returned from a conference in Seattle. The same day, President Obama gave a Father’s Day address about the importance of fathers in the lives of children. So what’s the connection? For me, it’s about Seattle. It's about the anniversary of my grandfather's death this week. And it’s about two generations of missing fathers.

NCFR member Lis Maurer, CFLE (pictured) and her co-editor Rebecca Plante wrote "Doing Gender Diversity: Readings in Theory and Real-world Experience." This is a book review.

Author Don Peck pulls together information from many places-including scholarly sources familiar to NCFR. This article caught my eye because of two family scholars he quotes-Glen Elder and Kathryn Edin (speakers at NCFR conferences)-as well as input from Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman and other experts.

I'm grateful I am aging in the era of Google, when a tip of the tongue hint can make for instant recall.

The endless frustration of getting called by telemarketers during the dinner hour.