Chapter 1 Meet the Donners
1. Donald K. Grayson, “Donner Party Deaths: A Demographic Assessment,” Journal of Anthropological Research 46 (Autumn 1990): 223–42.
2. Stephen McCurdy, “Epidemiology of Disaster: The Donner Party (1846–1847),” Western Journal of Medicine 160 (1994): 338–42.
3. John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard, and Jeffrey Sachs, eds., “World Happiness Report 2015,” accessed May 12, 2015, www.worldhappiness.report.
4. Studs Terkel, Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do (New York: The New Press, 1972), xiii.
1. Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad about My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman (New York: Vintage Books, 2006), 102.
2. Marc Bodnick, “Why Do So Many People Hate Their Jobs?” Forbes, March 27, 2013, http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/03/27/why-do-so-many-people-hate-their-jobs/.
3. Terkel, Working, xi.
4. “Ai Weiwei Zodiac Heads Sell for Record $4.3m in London,” Yahoo News, February 15, 2015, http://news.yahoo.com/ai-weiwei-zodiac-heads-sell-record-4-3m-033416545.html;_ylt=A0LEVy4sA_pUj6UAzzJXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzbHRsbW41BGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDVklQNTY4XzEEc2VjA3Ny.
5. Glen Martin, “The Stay-at-Home Dilemma: Modern Dads Can Pay a Steep Price for Bonding with Baby,” California Magazine, Winter 2014, http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/winter-2014-gender-assumptions/stay-home-dilemma-modern-dads-can-pay-steep-price.
6. Ibid.
7. Jill Yavorsky, Claire Kamp Dush, and Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan, “The Origin of Gender Inequalities in Dual-Earner, College Educated Couples: The Division of Labor at the Transition to Parenthood,” Council on Contemporary Families, May 7, 2015, https://contemporaryfamilies.org/origin-brief-report/.
8. “Profile America, Facts for Features,” US Census Bureau News, March 9, 2012, http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/cb12-ff08.html.
9. Alan Farnham, “Mother’s Day: How Much Is Mom Worth?” ABC News, May 6, 2011, http://abcnews.go.com/Business/mothers-day-how-much-is-mom-worth/story?id=13545402.
10. “What Is a Mom’s Work Worth?” Salary.com, accessed March 10, 2015, http://www.salary.com/mom-paycheck/.
Chapter 3 Look What I Can Do
1. Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (New York: Pocket Books, 2002), 222.
Chapter 8 The Weirdos Next Door
1. Gwen Dewar, PhD, “Why Do You Want to Eat Your Baby?” Babycenter.com, September 25, 2013, http://blogs.babycenter.com/mom_stories/why-do-you-want-to-eat-your-baby/. See also Johan Lundstrom et al., “Maternal Status Regulates Cortical Responses to the Body Odor of Newborns,” Frontiers in Psychology, September 5, 2013, http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00597/full.
Chapter 9 Play Nice
1. Vanessa Grigoriadis, “‘Primates of Park Avenue: A Memoir,’ by Wednesday Martin: Sunday Book Review,” New York Times, May 29, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/books/review/primates-of-park-avenue-a-memoir-by-wednesday-martin.html?_r=0.
2. Brigid Schulte, “Making Time for Kids? Study Says Quality Trumps Quantity,” Washington Post, March 28, 2015, http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/making-time-for-kids-study-says-quality-trumps-quantity/2015/03/28/10813192-d378-11e4-8fce-3941fc548f1c_story.html. See also Justin Wolfers, “Yes, Your Time As a Parent Does Make a Difference,” New York Times, April 1, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/upshot/yes-your-time-as-a-parent-does-make-a-difference.html.
3. Katharine Zaleski, “Female Company President: ‘I’m Sorry to All the Mothers I Worked With,’” Fortune, March 3, 2015, http://fortune.com/2015/03/03/female-company-president-im-sorry-to-all-the-mothers-i-used-to-work-with/.
1. “Having Three Children Is Most Stressful for Mom, Survey Finds,” Huff Post Parents, May 7, 2013, http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3229032.
2. See Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages (Chicago: Northfield, 2015), http://www.5lovelanguages.com/faqs/love-languages/. The five love languages include physical touch, words of affirmation, quality time, acts of service, and gifts.
Chapter 12 I Feel Bad about My Brain
1. Lila Azam Zanganeh, “Umberto Eco, The Art of Fiction No. 197,” The Paris Review 185 (Summer 2008), accessed August 1, 2015, http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5856/the-art-of-fiction-no-197-umberto-eco.
Chapter 13 Other People(’s Children)
1. “Indian Toddler Dolly Sets National Archery Record,” The Times of India, March 24, 2015, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Sports/More-sports/Others/Indian-toddler-Dolly-sets-national-archery-record/articleshow/46677848.cms.
Chapter 14 The Continental Divide
1. Terkel, Working, 304.
2. Elisabeth Elliott, Discipline: The Glad Surrender (Grand Rapids: Revell, 2006), 126.
Chapter 15 The River of Stars
1. Michel de Montaigne, “Michel de Montaigne Quotes,” Goodreads, accessed April 8, 2015, https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/17241.Michel_de_Montaigne.