Patricia Nachman is a teaching fellow in graduate psychology at the New School for Social Research and has been widely published in academic journals. She is a mother of an only child and lives in New York City. Sally Warren is a Canadian communications consultant and writer. She has extensive experience as a magazine writer and editor in the United States and Canada. A Philadelphia native, she met the love of her life while working in New York City and moved with him to Vancouver, where she was married for nineteen years--and then Dumped! Andrea Thompson was an editor at McCalls magazine and is currently a freelance writer specializing in women's issues. Her articles have appeared in Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Parents, Working Mother, and other national magazines. She is the co-author of Maternal Fitness and You and Your Only Child.