Samantha Parent Walravens

As I approach my mid-40s, each week brings news of yet another married couple in our peer group calling it quits. Some of the reasons? "He doesn't appreciate me anymore." "We just aren't in love like we used to be." "We fight all the time." And the inevitable, "I've finally...

In a recent interview with Paris' Metro magazine, 78-year-old designer Karl Lagerfeld, creative director and mastermind of the fashion powerhouse Chanel, said of the pop sensation Adele:

"She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice."

He's since apologized,...

DYK if your kids are NIFOC? Better read this primer to understand what those text messages really say.

You are an Internet-savvy parent. You've blocked all the porn sites, set up filters, and even have a monitoring program to alert you if your kids are talking about sex or...

My husband and I have become experts in taking 5-star vacations at 2-star prices. The only caveat is that to get these tremendous deals, we have to "chase the storm" or travel to areas that have been hit by a natural disaster.

We've been on this quest since we...

A new survey from More magazine confirms a recent assertion by Sheryl Sandberg, Google's Chief Operating Officer, that women of our generation have "blown it," that we haven't dreamed big enough, and that we "lack ambition." Hard words for a 40-something overachieving woman to accept, especially in...

Girls today are steering away from math, science and computers in record numbers. In 2011, women in the U.S. earned only 18 percent of all computer science degrees (compared to 37 percent 20 years ago) and made up less than 25 percent of the workers in...

With four kids ages 3-13 years old, I am often asked by other moms for advice on whether they should hold off sending their child to kindergarten the following year if he or she is on the "younger" side of their peer group. Conventional thinking on this subject would have...

The work-life conflict of my generation -- Generation X, or those born between 1965 and 1980 -- has been defined by the unrealistic expectations that women, primarily, have placed on themselves to "have it all": career, marriage, kids, house in the suburbs, etc. Somewhere along the way, "having it all"...

It's no news that most women like a tidy house, but I was taken aback by this week's survey results from the Working Mother Research Institute which showed that one of the primary concerns for mothers today -- both working and stay-at-home -- is how clean their house...

We've heard a lot in the media about Generation X women--those who, like me, were born between 1965 and 1978-- "opting out," or choosing motherhood over career. What about those who choose career over motherhood?

A recent study conducted by the Center for Work-Life Policy,...