From The Telegraph, an interview with Fay Weldon: "It's easier to pick up your husband's socks and clean the loo" (but for goodness sake, Fay, do put a sock in it). Sandra Tsing Loh is ending her marriage — isn’t it time you did the same? Are gays too late to destroy marriage? Their influence may ultimately be nothing compared to what straights have done. From Time, is there hope for the American marriage? (Who else could it be? Yes, it's none other than Caitlin Flanagan.) From Salon, it's hot, it's sexy! It's marriage! From CT, Mark Regnerus on the case for early marriage: Amid our purity pledges and attempts to make chastity hip, we forgot to teach young Christians how to tie the knot. From The Nation, many Christian adoption agencies are far more concerned with artificially producing "orphans" for Christian parents to adopt, than helping birth parents care for wanted children. Another country, not my own: One overseas adoptee explains how parents’ embrace of the ”home” culture can have its costs. Do fathers pay more attention to kids who look like them? The Real Nanny Diaries: Americans pay lip service to the idea child-raising is important work, but when they hire people to do it for them, they tend to pay them little and respect them less.