Dr. Pat Hastings was quoted in a USA Today article, “Hilary Duff’s husband, Ashley Tisdale and why modern parenting is so messy” about modern parenting and mom groups.

“These spaces that give advice and companionship are also places where parents are going to implicitly or explicitly compare themselves to other people and their parenting,” said Orestes P. Hastings, associate professor of sociology at Colorado State University who studies parenting. “It’s just sort of unavoidable.”