In the Press

“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.

“Diaper Duty, Divided and Decided: Sign Here” In “Diaper Duty, Divided and Decided:Sign Here“, Jan Hoffman evaluates all the ways that couples spell out their relationships verbally or on paper. She interviewed Ackerman Institute’s President, Lois Braverman, on the issues couples need to deal with in a relationship. “For some couples, the question is, ‘What

“What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?” People rely on gender to help understand the world, to make order out of chaos,” says Jean Malpas, who directs the Ackerman Institute’s Gender and Family Project. “It’s been a way of measuring someone’s well-being: ‘Are you adjusted? Do you fit? Or are

Lois Braverman, Ackerman Institute President, weighs in for NY1 on a study that establishes new diagnoses criteria for children on the autism spectrum.