Lasting Love and Marriage

Stepmonster: How Do Stepmothers Feel? Video

Wednesday Martin, author of Stepmonster: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do, talks about the challenges, myths, and realities of being a stepmother. Visit her website.

The Daddy Shift: Jeremy Adam Smith Video

It’s a growing phenomenon among American families: fathers who cut back on paid work to focus on raising children. But what happens when dads stay home? What do stay-at-home fathers struggle with—and what do they rejoice in? How does taking up the mother’s traditional role affect a father’s relationship with his partner, children, and extended family? And what does stay-at-home fatherhood mean for the larger society?

The Daddy Shift: How Stay-at-Home Dads, Breadwinning Moms, and Shared ParentingAreTransforming the Twenty-First-Century Family

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Length-37 minutes, 11 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Jeremy Adam Smith, author of The Daddy Shift: How Stay-At-Home Dads, Breadwinning Moms, and Shared Parenting Are Transforming The Twenty-First Century Family published by Beacon Press.

Jeremy Adam Smith is senior editor of Greater Good Magazine published by the U.C. Berkeley Greater Good Science Center. He is also the founder of Daddy Dialectic, a group blog that explores the experiences of twenty-first-century dads, which has earned praise from the Washington Post, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and many corners of the blogosphere.

His essays, short stories, and articles on parenting, popular culture, urban life, and politics have appeared in AlterNet, The Nation, MotheringOur Stories Public EyeSan Francisco Bay GuardianSan Francisco Chronicle,Utne Reader, Wired, and numerous other periodicals and books, most recently the anthology Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex and Power. Jeremy has also been interviewed by many media outlets, including The New York Times, USA Today, and Nightline.  Visit his website.

All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House

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Length-54 minutes, 9 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. David Giffels, author of All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House published by William Morrow.

Former Beavis and Butt-Head writer David Giffels is a columnist for the Akron Beacon Journal. Giffels is the coauthor of two other books: the rock biography Are We Not Men? We Are Devo! (SAF Publishing, 2003); and Wheels of Fortune: The Story of Rubber in Akron, a 1998 history of his hometown that is the bestselling title in University of Akron Press history.

His essays appear in The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia (Indiana University Press, 2006), and The Appalachians: America’s First and Last Frontier (Random House, 2004), and he received a “Notable Essay” citation in Da Capo Best Music Writing 2004.. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times magazine and Redbook. He is a contributing commentator and essayist on National Public Radio station WKSU in Kent, Ohio.

In a 17-year career, he has won dozens of journalism awards, including the 2006 National Award for Commentary from the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors. He has been nominated five times for the Pulitzer Prize.

Giffels has Bachelor’s degrees in English and Mass Media and a Master’s degree in English/Creative Writing from the University of Akron. Visit his website.

Video of Dr. Pamela Stone on Opting Out

More and more professional women in America are leaving their jobs to focus on raising families. Author Pam Stone talked with Kelly Wallace about this trend. (CBSNews.com)

Married with Special-Needs Children: A Couples' Guide to Keeping Connected

Length-39 minutes, 57 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney  interviews Dr. Laura E. Marshak, co-author of Married With Special-Need Children: A Couples Guide to Keeping Connected written by Laura E. Marshak, Ph.D. and Fran Pollack Prezant, M.Ed., CCC-SLP, published by Woodbine House.

Laura Marshak, Ph.D.

Dr. Laura Marshak is a professor in the Department of Counseling at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She is also a psychologist at North Hills Psychological Services where she works with many parents of children with disabilities as well as others.

She lives in Pittsburg Pennsylvania and is the mother of three sons. This is her fifth book.

Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, An Oscar, An Atomic Bomb, A Romantic Night and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother

Length-58 minutes, 15 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Peggy Orenstein, author of Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, An Oscar, An Atomic Bomb, A Romantic Night and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother published by Bloomsbury USA.

Ms. Peggy Orenstein

Peggy Orenstein is an internationally recognized writer, editor and speaker about issues affecting girls and women, her previous books include Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World (Doubleday/Anchor), and the best-selling SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap (Doubleday/Anchor)

A contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, Orenstein has also written for such publications as Vogue, Elle, Discover, More, Glamour, Mother Jones, Salon, Parenting, "O: The Oprah Magazine," and The New Yorker. Her work has been included in many anthologies, including The Best American Science Writing (2004).

She has been a guest lecturer and keynote speaker at numerous college campuses; at state, regional and municipal conferences on gender equity and on juvenile justice; at the National Education Association's National Conference on Women and Minorities and at the conference of the Canadian Teachers Federation. She has published editorials relating to her research in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and USA Today and has appeared on, among other programs, Nightline, Good Morning America, The Today Show, NPR's Fresh Air and Morning Edition and CBC's As It Happens.

Visit her website .

Mamarama: A Memoir of Sex, Kids, & Rock 'n' Roll

Length-51 minutes, 28 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Evelyn McDonnell, author of Mamarama: A Memoir of Sex, Kids, & Rock 'n' Roll published by Da Capo Life Long Books.

Evelyn McDonnell

Evelyn McDonnell is the pop culture writer at The Miami Herald, where she has worked since 2001. She is the author of three books: Mamarama: A Memoir of Sex, Kids and Rock ‘n’ Roll, and Army of She: Icelandic, Iconoclastic, Irrepressible Bjork She coedited the anthologies Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop and Rap and Stars Don’t Stand Still in the Sky: Music and Myth. A former senior editor at The Village Voice and associate editor at SF Weekly, her writing on music, poetry, theater, and culture has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies, including Ms., Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Spin, Travel & Leisure, Us, Billboard, and Option.

Evelyn lives in Miami Beach with her husband, Bud, her stepdaughters, Karlie and Kenda, her son, Cole, their dog, Otis, and two cats, Paleface and Moonpie. Visit her website