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Natal Gazing

I'm a psychologist and neuroscientist who writes about parenting, neuroscience, biology, relationships and politics. I'm also the author of the book Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How it Shapes Men's Lives (Flatiron Books, 2026).

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What Happens When Moms and Dads Trade Off Primary Parenting

An anthropologist explains her research into the Shodagor of rural Bangladesh

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Can you take the friction out of parenting?

From chatbots to outsourcing, why the hassles are kind of the whole thing

Pete Hegseth doesn't understand hormones

Testosterone is not the measure of a military man

The truth about testosterone and fatherhood

How men's testosterone changes when they become parents

We have arrived

(At Dollywood)

Road trip to Dollywood

Notes from a triple-purpose journey

Today is the actual day

And now I need to sleep for a week

How to write more and better

My best tips for cranking out words that people want to read

Your brain gets even more cooked with a second child

The neuroscience of repeat motherhood

What really happens to a mother's brain

The latest studies point to both change and recovery in new moms