Laurie Goodstein writes in the New York Times: "While the recent scandals involving the Roman Catholic Church have focused on the sexual abuse of children, experts say that incidences of priests who have violated sexual and emotional boundaries with adult women are far more common."

USA Today's Marisol Bello reports on a new social networking site for Latinas to help them "find their voice": "It has become an online plaza where Latinas nationwide, and a few from Canada and Mexico, gather to network, share experiences, trade job information, plug community events and professional efforts, and seek advice on everything from getting a divorce to obtaining a mortgage."

Donna St. George writes in The Washington Post: "A first census snapshot of married women who stay home to raise their children shows that the popular obsession with high-achieving professional mothers sidelining careers for family life is largely beside the point."

NOW activists scored a victory! President Obama signed the SCHIP bill, which included health care for children and pregnant women who are legal immigrants. Robert Pear in the The New York Times reports: "The House gave final approval on Wednesday to a bill extending health insurance to millions of low-income children, and President Obama signed it this afternoon, in the first of what he hopes will be many steps to guarantee coverage for all Americans...In a major change, the bill allows states to cover certain legal immigrants -- namely, children under 21 and pregnant women -- as well as citizens."

Kate Harding from Salon blogs about a recent article in the New York Times about men caring for elderly parents. "It acknowledges some of the unique problems men face with taking on this traditionally female role, without the usual implication that this means women are somehow 'naturally' better suited to it, and thus the status quo is best for everyone. In fact, I'd say this article is a great argument for why men need feminism as much as women do."

After crisscrossing the nation and speaking to divorced women for nearly a decade, Renee Beeker realized family courts were creating a spider web of pained parents and irregular rulings rarely revealed outside courthouse walls.

Like many professional women, Elaine Miller reached a point when working full time and raising three children became too difficult. She left her 50-hour-a-week job as director of software strategy to spend more time with her kids and pick up occasional consulting work.

For insights into healthy marriages, social scientists are looking in an unexpected place. A growing body of evidence shows that same-sex couples have a great deal to teach everyone else about marriage and relationships.

Katha Pollitt writes about the Yearning for Zion Ranch and the Catholic Pope and their attitude toward women.

NOW leaders Laurie Pettine and Maretta Short worked to support the bill, and are quoted in the article. The family leave bill would allow six weeks of paid leave to workers who care for a baby or newly adopted child, as well as a sick child, spouse or parent.

Good Morning America reports on a new study that men are doing more chores around the house, with a NOW staffer providing the example.

"Disney likes to think of its Princesses as role models, but what a sorry bunch of wusses they are. Typically, they spend much of their time in captivity or a coma, waking up only when a Prince comes along and kisses them," writes Barbara Ehrenreich in The Nation.

Rose French of the Associated Press writes that The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary "One of the nation's largest Southern Baptist seminaries... is introducing a new, women-only academic program in homemaking ­ a 23-hour concentration that counts toward a bachelor of arts degree in humanities. The program is aimed at helping establish what Southwestern's president calls biblical family and gender roles."

Authors of a bestselling book argue that boys need more freedom to take physical risks and test their spirit of adventure. Women's eNews Commentator Caryl Rivers says bravo to that, as long as girls join in the play, too.

Lisa Belkin writes in the New York Times: "Amy Stepnowski 'opted out' just as the issue came to a head a result, I confess, of a magazine piece I wrote for this newspaper ­ and caused a nasty and noisy debate about whether privileged and educated women were abandoning the workplace, or the workplace was abandoning them. But now it is time for another phrase, 'opting back in,' a term that not only describes Ms. Stepnowski's decision to return, but also reflects the growing acceptance by business of a nonlinear career."