In Which Comes First, Husband or Career, Daum defends a college mother’s controversial suggestion. A Princeton mom, Susan A. Patton, wrote a published a letter in Princeton’s campus newspaper suggesting girls focus on finding a good husband as well as their future careers. However, many readers took this as a downgrade towards women and a desperate cry for help that her son find a wife. Daum rephrases the mother’s argument in a more sensible, clear way. She helps people realize the truths in Patton’s argument in a very understanding tone.