Uncommon Girls

Carla Grant hopes her new memoir serves as an unconventional guide to parenting a transgender child. Grant recently published Uncommon Girls, an unflinching and sometimes absurd account of a girl and ...

Naming girls is a delicate art. While there’s no shortage of popular girl names to choose from—shoutout to the Emmas and Avas of the world—many parents are in search of something more. They want a ...

Narrowing down your baby name list to just one name is very difficult, especially if you're looking for an unusual baby girl name that isn't common amongst baby girls. If you're looking for an unusual ...

Ruling Our eXperiences’s (ROX) Girls’ Index compiles data taken from a survey of tens of thousands of girls in schools across the country. For the 2023 Girls’ Index, declines in confidence and ...

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Psychology Today: How Social Media and Cultural Pressure Are Harming Our Girls

Psychologists rightfully blame girls’ high stress levels and poor mental health outcomes at least partly on social media. The average girl today starts using social platforms by age 12, and they are ...

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The Conversation: Social media is boosting mental health disorders and suicidal thoughts among teens, particularly in girls

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Social media is boosting mental health disorders and suicidal thoughts among teens, particularly in girls

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A couple decides to keep having children until they have the same number of boys and girls, and then stop. Assume they never have twins, that the "trials" are independent with probability...

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The net effect is that even if I don't know which one is definitely a boy, the other child can only be a girl or a boy and that is always and only a 1/2 probability (ignoring any biological weighting that girls may represent 51% of births or whatever the reality is).