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Deciding to Have Children

Are You A Parenting Role Model, Or A Cautionary Tale?

Lisa Belkin | Posted 11.14.2012 | Parents
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Lisa Belkin

Young women without children are watching to see how we do it. They feel both sympathy and resentment. We are their role models and worst nightmares. They are stressed by seeing our stress.

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So What If Our Child Has 87 Siblings?

Babble.com | Posted 06.22.2012 | Parents
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Babble.com

As long as in the end I was a mother, nothing was a game-changer for me. Until a few months back when I saw PBS's "Donor Unknown."

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Art Before Life: Questioning the Parenthood Question

Sonya Chung | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Sonya Chung

"Will I regret it if I don't?" strikes me as the most fraught and least productive of all the questions.

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