Lisa Belkin
Senior Columnist, Life/Work/Family at The Huffington Post
More Children Living (and Lacking) in High-Poverty Areas
This is not news, and it’s a very difficult story to make “new” — another, less amusing way that writing about family can feel, as Lisa Belkin put it in a recent column, like “ Groundhog Day .” Earlier this week, The Times’s Economix blog posted on the strong correlation between ... Read more »
Huffington Post, New York Times disarm on parenting
... to Reuters, the Times is settling a lawsuit against the SEO empire for naming its parenting blog “Parentlode,” a title that bears some resemblance to the New York Times’s “Motherlode.” The dispute emerged after the Huffington Post hired away “Motherlode” writer Lisa Belkin from the Times... Read more »
NYT, HuffPo Settle Dispute over Parenting Blogs
As a reminder, the Times sued the Huffington Post in November after the Gray Lady’s long-time parenting blogger Lisa Belkin left the paper’s Motherlode blog and started writing a new blog for the Huffington Post called, you guessed it, Parentlode. The court order doesn’t lay out the ... Read more »
Is Having A Child A Rational Decision? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
Last year at the Huffington Post, Lisa Belkin suggested that most academic discussions of parenthood fail to address why so many people actually have kids. Most people don't decide to start a family after logical and ethical debate; they're moved (says Belkin): To create a family. ... Read more »
Deceased Baby Beluga Whale Is Not The Namesake of Beloved Children’s Song, Says Raffi
Huffington Post writer Lisa Belkin got locked into a lengthy exchange with Cavoukian over the placement of quotation marks (or rather, lack thereof) in her article, "Baby Beluga, And the Soundtrack of Our Children's Lives. " When the songwriter objected that the first line was ... Read more »
Lisa Belkin: Anne-Marie Slaughter: Why One Woman Reached The Top, Then Left
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Lisa Belkin: A Dying Parent's List
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Lisa Belkin: Shannon Cooper Cheers At Her Daughter's Graduation ... And Gets Arrested? (VIDEO)
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Lisa Belkin: My Son, Myself: A Father's Cross Country Journey With a Son He Doesn't Understand
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Lisa Belkin: It's Not Porn, People, It's Food
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Lisa Belkin: The President As Parent
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Lisa Belkin: Why Some Mothers Plan To Disappear On Mother's Day
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Lisa Belkin: What Does Take Your Child to Work Day Mean in 2012?
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Lisa Belkin: Whose Fault Is It If Your Child Spends $2,000 On A 'Free' Online Game?
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Lisa Belkin: My 5th Grader Was Groped By TSA
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Lisa Belkin: How Parenting Is Like Ground Hog Day And Mad Libs
The big story in the New York Times Magazine last Sunday -- and, as a result, on all the morning shows by Monday -- was titled " Puberty Before Age 10: A New 'Normal'? " Its author, Elizabeth Weil, went on to quote many of the same science and scientists that I'd quoted 12 years earlier, in ... Read more »
HuffPo Blog Formerly Known As Parentlode Will Now Be Called 'Parentry'
And so starting tomorrow, Lisa Belkin’s Huffington Post parenting blog, formerly known as Parentlode, will be called “Parentry.” Lisa Belkin left her popular parenting blog at the New York Times (NYSE: NYT - News ), “Motherlode,” to launch a similar blog at the Huffington Post ... Read more »
Arianna Huffington On Leaning In, Leaning Back And The Second Women's Movement
I recently got the opportunity to visit Huffington in her East Village headquarters, where the president and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group played hostess to myself and two leading staffers, Lisa Belkin, HuffPost senior columnist on work, life and family and executive ... Read more »
Dramatic resignation email from top lawyer who says she can't raise a happy family and put in hours...
‘You’ve got to keep going back and forth, not just in terms of where you are, but also in terms of your focus.’ The Huffington Post ’s Lisa Belkin wrote that especially in law, the workplace is ‘a 1950s model set in a 2012 world,’ requiring workers to put in extreme hours ‘with no ... Read more »
OK 'Time' Cover, Your 15 Minutes Are Up!
Then I read New York Times columnist, Lisa Belkin’s Huffington Post piece, “ No. I Am Not Mom Enough ,” and cheered when Belkin wrote, “I am not Mom enough to take the bait. To accept Time's deliberate provocation and either get mad at this woman for what I think I know about her ... Read more »