Two new sex surveys published their findings this week—giving us a glimpse of what goes on the between the sheets of our fellow Americans.

Consumer Reports interviewed 1,000 people between ages 18 and 75 about the frequency of and satisfaction with their sex lives. Working Mother conducted a separate survey of 500 readers—and presumed working moms—about the amount and quality of their time in the sack.

Here are some notable numbers:

93 percent of Working Mother respondents are attracted to their husbands "at least some of the time."

80 percent of Consumer Reports respondents said the recession hasn't reduced … Read More

For Shelley Murray, an athletic mom from Woburn, MA, the tug-of-war between her high-level banking job and her family's needs transformed mundane tasks into Faustian dilemmas. One day, when she was running late to pick up her son at preschool, she realized that she also needed a gallon of milk. Should she pull over and be late (again), or should she pick Adam up on time and drag him into the grocery store? "I am sitting in traffic, debating, and it just hit me," says Murray. "I went, 'You are trying to budget time to buy milk. This is insane!'"

The … Read More

I spent many years establishing a rewarding professional life before having two children—just as my biological clock was winding down—and ever since then I've felt as though I won the lottery. A great career! A wonderful husband! Two beautiful, healthy children! Lucky me! Imagine my surprise, then, to learn that Having It All—the quintessential goal of recent generations of women—has gone out of fashion. Who knew?

One day I opened the newspaper to discover that today's young moms have nothing but scorn for the choices we baby boomers made. "The new breed of wife has learned from the '80s and … Read More

As a reporter, I often travel on assignment. When my children were small, the prospect of my leaving town for a few days typically elicited great alarm from our family's nearest and dearest.

"Who will take care of the children!" they exclaimed, as if the little darlings had only one parent. When I replied that their father would doubtless make sure they didn’t starve to death while I was away, everyone from my women friends to my mother would simper adoringly, "Oh, you’re so lucky! Jeremy is soooo wonderful!"

Like my husband and me, our upstairs neighbors during those years, Amy and … Read More