Solveig Brown, Ph.D., is an anthropologist who has done extensive research about middle-class American mothers. She has conducted in-depth interviews and focus groups with more than one-hundred mothers, gathered survey data, and completed an extensive review of the academic literature relevant to the issues American parents deal with on a daily basis. She has contributed to Stay at Home Mothers: An International Perspective, and Intensive Mothering: The Cultural Contradictions of Modern Motherhood. She has presented her research on mothers to academic audiences and parent groups. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her family.