Kutner is a graduate of Oberlin College and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a syndicated columnist, broadcaster and author of five books on child care: Pregnancy and Your Baby's First Year, Toddlers and Pre-Schoolers, Parent & Child: Getting through to Each Other, Your School-Age Child, and Making Sense of Your Teenager.
He is an adoptee and on the Board of Directors of Adoptive Families of America. He and his wife are also foster parents.