Virginia Pelley, Author at Fatherly

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Virginia Pelley

There Are Two Types of Coronavirus Couples

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Sickness & Allergies

How You Like Vaccines Now?

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That Chronic Coronavirus Stress Is Increasing Everyone's Allostatic Load

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How Kids Will Remember the Pandemic

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What Having a Second Child Does to Your Marriage

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Health & Science

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Your Child Is Not There to Support You Children are naturally empathic so it’s easy for moms and dads to place children in situations where they feel more like parents than children. But this behavior can be extremely damaging.

Father & Child Relationships

Why Kids Are Closer to Mom's Parents Do mom's parents have an advantage over dad's? Not necessarily. But, as the role of gatekeeper is often thrust upon women, it's natural to lean on maternal grandparents.

There’s No Fix for Food Allergies. Parents on the Internet Still Want to Sell You a Cure. Increasingly, food allergy parenting groups online are taking a page from anti-vaxxers and promoting conspiracies and medically dubious advice. For parents with allergic kids, it's disorienting — and dangerous.

Health & Science

The Isolating World of Men’s Grief For too many men, grief is a misunderstood, isolating force that is diminished and dismissed by others. This needs to change.

Mom Cuddles With the Kids, But Won’t Touch You. What Gives? Many new moms feel "touched out" after a day of breastfeeding and constant affection from kids. It happens. Here's what to know — and how to be helpful.

How to Be a Good Husband to a Stay-at-Home Mom It all comes down to managing expectations and a good deal of empathy.

Eat, Play, Love: The Science of Play and Its Impact on Childhood For kids, play is a state of being. For parents, it’s an investment in time and money (just ask the $28 billion toy industry). But what, exactly, is play? Science has an answer.

If You Need to Command Your Family's Respect, You've Already Lost It Regardless of how it was lost, respect can be hard to get back. Commanding it isn’t the answer.

The Trouble With Maternal Instinct Consciously or subconsciously, parents buy into the idea that women are natural caregivers. It's not true and it hurts everyone.

Parenting and the Mental Prison of Debt Most parents dramatically underestimate the amount of money they’re going to spend when they have kids. Should we punish them for it?

Marriage Will Never Be the Same After Kids. Act Accordingly — or Else. Research shows that having children drastically affects a marriage — often for the worse. Understanding why is essential to recalibrating your relationship.

Dads Might Be Able to Breastfeed Their Kids Soon. Should They? Product design is on the cusp of overcoming the biology of breastfeeding. Will more dads be chestfeeding in the near future?

The Extreme Cost of Not Living Near Grandparents Living near grandparents provides a unique set of pros and cons for every member of the family.

The Very Real Consequences of Cutting Off Your Parents When your parents or in-laws are problematic, sometimes severing ties is the only option. But it's never a clean break.

What Keeping Secrets Does to Your Marriage The average person keeps roughly 13 secrets. Each has consequences for you, your partner, and your marriage.

Your Work Stress Could Be Screwing Up Your Kid Lack of control at work and the stress that creates could be affecting your children.

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