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Judith Warner
Journalist and Author of the New York Times Bestseller Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
Judith Warner is best known for her 2005 New York Times bestseller, Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety, and her New York Times column, “Domestic Disturbances.” She is currently a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. Her latest book, We’ve Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication, received the 2010 Outstanding Media Award for Science and Health Reporting from the National Alliance on Mental Illness. A former special correspondent for Newsweek in Paris, she hosted The Judith Warner Show on XM satellite radio from 2005 to 2007, and wrote the 1993 bestseller Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story, as well as several other books. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and children.
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"The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women"
Slate
"The Locavore’s Illusions"
TIME
"Autism's Lone Wolf"
TIME
"The Murder That Transfixed 1930s Paris"
New York Times Book Review
"The 'Seduction' Myth: What the French Still Don't Get About Sex"
TIME
"Fact-Free Science"
The New York Times Magazine
"Parenting on the Edge: Judith Warner on medicating kids"
Southern California Public Radio
"Fear (Again) Of Flying"
The New York Times Magazine
"No More Mrs. Nice Mom"
The New York Times Magazine
Interview with Judith Warner about We've Got Issues
The Globe and Mail
"What the Great Recession Has Done to Family Life "
The New York Times
"The Wrong Story About Depression"
The New York Times
"Bo-Tax Backlash"
The New York Times
"Ban the Breast Pump"
The New York Times
"Ritalin Wars"
The New York Times
Judith Warner's Article Archive
The New York Times
Featured Book
We've Got Issues
"Parents, social workers, and educators will find Warner's compelling study troubling but enlightening. Highly recommended."
—Library Journal
Speaking Topics
- Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety: Could Things Have Gotten Worse?
- We’ve Got Issues
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Speaking Topics — Judith Warner
Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety: Could Things Have Gotten Worse?
- A discussion of how families are coping with the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression and how our culture of motherhood has changed since the publication of Perfect Madness at the height of the Bush years: signs of progress, glimmers of hope, harsh realities.
We’ve Got Issues
- An exploration of our society’s myths and prejudices about children’s mental health issues and how those preconceived notions create enduring stigma for families trying to take care of challenging kids. Judith will tell of her own personal journey in coming to terms with this issue—she set out to write a book about overdiagnosis, overmedication, and “pushy” parents looking to “perfect” their kids, then reversed her opinions entirely once she began to do serious and meaningful research—and will suggest ways we all could think differently about a topic of vital importance in millions of children’s lives.
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