Suzanne Venker
Author and Relationship Coach
This article was originally published at the Washington Examiner. America just had its lowest birth rate in 32 years. The 2018 fertility rate hit a “record low,” researchers wrote in a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Also of note is that among all births, the percentage delivered at less than …
This article was originally published at the Washington Examiner. Read carefully, and you’ll notice that almost every article on the struggles couples face with respect to the work-family battle blames men. The cultural narrative is that women do it all, while the men in their lives are Neanderthals who need to get with the program. …
This article was originally published at the Washington Examiner. A new paper published at the National Bureau of Economic Research found that California’s 2004 paid-leave law, which provides an extra six weeks of paid leave at 55% of one’s pay, didn’t do what it was supposed to do: get mothers back to work. “The authors find scant …
This article was originally published at the Washington Examiner. Dolly Parton is a kindred spirit. I just love that woman. Apparently everyone else does, too. A new podcast about Parton’s life, produced by NPR and entitled Dolly Parton’s America, premiered last month and will feature nine episodes that help explain why Dolly Parton, in this “intensely …
A similar version of this article was published at Washington Examiner. “We’ve created a culture based on lies. Here are some of them: Career success is fulfilling; I can make myself happy; Life is an individual journey; You have to find your own truth; and Rich and successful people are worth more than poorer and …
This article was originally published at the Washington Examiner. Last week, Gerard Baker, editor at large for The Wall Street Journal, committed the unpardonable sin of writing an uncomfortable truth: that women outpacing men in the educational sphere may have positive economic consequences, but it comes at a price. “In the much larger game of life, love and …
This article was originally published at the Washington Examiner. Perhaps, like me, you’ve read a lot lately about husband and wives and housework — such as here, and here, and here. Naturally, all the articles are written by women. Naturally, they all lament the same thing: Wives do more housework than husbands do. This is true, apparently, even for …
This article was originally published at the Washington Examiner. A new book, For the Love of Men: A New Vision of Mindful Masculinity, begins like this: “There is no greater threat to humankind than our current definitions of masculinity.” [Note use of the word “humankind,” rather than “mankind.” That’s the first indication you’re about to read …
This article was originally published at Washington Examiner. Millions of single women in America today cannot for the life of them find a “suitable” husband. That’s according to a new study from researchers at Cornell University, who examined data on actual recent marriages and found women’s ideal husband has an average income about 58% higher than the actual unmarried …
In my recent post, entitled “6 Ways Men Can Become Emasculation-Proof,” one of my suggestions to men was to not be overly accommodating toward their wives and girlfriends. That may sound odd or even mean, but I’m not saying men shouldn’t be kind or shouldn’t pull their weight on the home front. What I am …
This article was originally published at the Washington Examiner. Last week I was inundated with emails from people who stumbled upon an article I wrote for Fox News back in February 2018 about the Parkland school shooting (which I presume was resurrected due the more recent mass shootings), in which I point to fatherlessness as …
Not long ago I received an email from a man with a simple question: Is there a way for a guy to be “emasculation-proof”? How can men (even young men) become secure in their identity so as not to become emasculated in their relationships? So we’re clear, to be emasculated means to be made weak …
The basics of love are honestly so simple. Unfortunately, the main reason modern women struggle in their relationships is that they harbor erroneous beliefs about love. They’re moving through the world with scripts they learned from their parents and from the culture. And these scripts predict whether or not you’ll be successful in love. All …
This article was originally published at the Washington Examiner. Kudos to Dr. Gillian Lockwood, medical director at the Midland Fertility Clinic in the U.K., for telling women what they need to know rather than what many want to hear. The ideal age to get pregnant, she said, is 25. Recognizing this fact doesn’t mean every woman …
So, BIG news. And I’m so excited to finally be able to share it. As of July 13, I will be on the radio. The Suzanne Venker Show will air every Saturday at noon and will also be available as a podcast, so anyone can listen from anywhere in the world at anytime. We will …
This article was originally published at the Washington Examiner. With Father’s Day upon us, the time has come to address as a nation what Heather Mac Donald noted earlier this year is “the greatest social catastrophe of our time”: fatherlessness. Fatherlessness is the No. 1 cause of nearly all social ills we face. We can’t afford to …
This article was originally published at the Washington Examiner. In my last post, I responded to the research on the “happiness penalty” faced by mothers who are the primary breadwinners in their families. The toll it takes to try and raise children while at the same time be the family’s main source of income is …
This article was originally published at the Washington Examiner. My co-author for this piece is Terry Brennan, co-founder of LW4SP. So-called “toxic masculinity” is having a moment. The popular recognition of this intersectional feminist belief was exacerbated by the American Psychological Association’s “guidelines” for working with men and boys. These guidelines were compiled by the …
This article was published at the Washington Examiner. When it comes to the problems millennials face, we’re just not getting it. As I mentioned in my last post about the debt millennials have incurred, their predicament isn’t their fault. It is baby boomers who led millennials astray. “We suffered from the educational debt phenomenon because when …
Remember the Notre Dame leggings controversy last month? If you missed it, I wrote about it here. Well, it turns out the mother of that editorial, Maryann White, wrote a response to the incredibly brutal and childish backlash she received and asked Notre Dame to publish it, and they wouldn’t. So she contacted me, and …
Last week I wrote an article entitled “Ladies, Stop Trying to Have Sex Like a Man.” In it, I wrote that the birth control pill may keep women from getting pregnant, but it can’t do a thing about female nature. A woman’s unique sexual psychology isn’t designed for hookups. The oxytocin that floods her body …
For years now it has been the norm for Western women to view their twenties as that coveted time in which they’re supposed to “find themselves.” The assumption is that in the past, prior to feminists “freeing” women from their formerly oppressed lives, women tethered themselves to husbands and babies and “lost” themselves in the …
Last week, after an especially long day and an “epic” tantrum from her 3-year-old, Sarah Buckley Friedberg, a Massachusetts mother of three, posted on Facebook a mock ‘to-do list‘ that society expects of mothers today. The ending was inspired: “I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to lean OUT. Thanks for coming to my …
This article was originally published at Washington Examiner. A new finding at Pew Research Center claims that gender equality—worldwide, although a distinction must be made between its goals in the West and its goals in undeveloped nations—has risen exponentially at the same time family ties have weakened considerably. And here’s the frustrating part: While “roughly half or more” …
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