RIP, Donna Summer. Check out my latest on psychologytoday.com on how her hit "Love to Love You Baby" changed the way we think about sex...and leave a comment!

I'm soooo tired of this royal wedding hubbub, but I had to write about it anyway. Hope you will have a look at my latest post for psychologytoday.com about Camilla, Kate, and the royal wedding...and tell me about it, DO YOU HAVE A STEPFAMILY WEDDING STORY?

What happens to kids when parents are permissive and indulgent? Research suggests that they are lower functioning across several measures — socially, emotionally, and academically — and they certainly aren't much fun to be around. This is a legacy they bring with them into adulthood; many of today's twenty-somethings, researchers like Ron Taffel note, were raised with so much indiscriminate and unwarranted praise, and so few appropriate boundaries and rules, that they have an inflated sense of their own importance and achievements, and unrealistic expectations not only within their own family system, but also in the world (I am reminded of a nanny candidate with a B.A. but zero full-time nanny experience who told me she "required" an outrageous salary — in cash — "in order to be happy")

Sandra Bullock is a huge star, America’s Sweetheart, an Oscar winner, an uber-celebrity—and one of us. I’m talking about her having married a man with kids from a previous relationship (or, in this case, two previous relationships).