Psychology Info Online (2003) defines Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) as "a pattern of depressive or manic episodes that occurs with the onset of the winter months... [which] abate once the days become longer and warmer in the Spring." "Affective" refers to affect, or mood, and not to the seasons affecting a person. The site also says that SAD ( Read more... )

Andrea Doucet's Do Men Mother?, released this week, makes the startling observation that stay-at-home dads are different from stay-at-home moms, according to a review in the Ottawa Citizen (11/10/06). While Doucet's interviews with 120 Canadian fathers did seem to reveal some patterns of behavior and attitude in men, it is unclear what female data ( Read more... )