A large percentage of Americans are all-too-familiar with stress, and many of us stress about the same things. Topping the list of common stressors in...
New York Magazine's "Retro Wife" cover story has caused quite a stir after profiling women who choose to stay at home with their kids. One media outle...
For now, we are living in a system that assumes women will do the invisible work, and if we want that to change we have to talk about it, and arrange our lives to make it possible.
HuffPost Senior Columnist Lisa Belkin appeared on HLN’s new parenting-focused show, "Raising America With Kyra Phillips," on Tuesday to discuss guns...
As of 2011, there were ten million single moms raising kids under 18 in the U.S. -- nearly three times as many as there were in 1970. But is there sti...
Because your ratty old leggings just aren't cutting it.
There is nothing wrong with reaching for high standards. But just as I wouldn't tell a new tennis player that she would soon be playing in Wimbledon, I would never be so insensitive to tell a working mom that she can have it all -- all the time.
When journalist Hanna Rosin talks about the "End of Men," she doesn't mean that men are destined to die out (although statistics show that couples in ...
"Women are not just catching up anymore," writes Hanna Rosin in her upcoming book The End of Men, "they are becoming the standard by which success is ...
Over the past five and a half years, you have developed a skewed vision of my job description. So, for the time being, please view this as a letter of resignation from the following duties...
How to reconcile these two contradictory goals? To teach our girls that females are awesome and also teach them that their gender is not the whole of who they are?
I now understand why so many adults and politicians make political compromises: Their self-interest overpowers their emotional instincts.
Like Ann-Marie, I made sacrifices when I went to Washington, leaving behind a husband and house in Seattle for an amazing set of public service opportunities. Her willingness to share her struggles and bare her family's story makes the conversation about women having it all palpable.
This idea of having it all, the mantra so many of us assumed was our birthright, has led to a world of grief.
NEW YORK -- You could call Elisabeth Badinter a very lucky woman. It's not just that she's wealthy, successful, a respected scholar and a best-selling...
Looking back at where TYCTWD began, and what it's been through, that feels like its right and logical next incarnation -- a day to point our kids toward who they will be in the future, yes. But also to stop for a moment and ground them in the particulars of who their parents are right now.
I've opted in, out and all things in between and what I can tell you is this: It's way more complicated than those two little words tend to imply.
What would you name a place where parents can gather and share and gripe and wrestle this parenting thing down? The prize: An expense paid trip to NYC, lunch with our HuffPost Parents team (including Arianna) and, to show there are no hard feelings, a digital subscription to the New York Times.
Jen Simon hasn't gotten a full night's sleep in two years. Her son, Noah, was born three weeks premature, weighing just four pounds, and almost from t...
Redirecting ......
What are we going to do with the new Google tool? Consider "parenting." I remember reading a column by the Times' Lisa Belkin last year, in which she...
Is there a gap between what child development research has found and what parents believe? A new survey from Zero to Three, a nonprofit devoted to ...
The way that conventional media thinks it can best reach parents is through presenting what's wrong--the latest tragedy, crisis or failure. The way th...
Anita Tedaldi, a woman who returned her adopted son 18-months into their relationship because she felt they hadn't bonded, appeared on the "Today Show...
A whopping 87 percent of women would like more equilibrium between the competing areas of their lives. Two professionals have entered the conversation with a new book.
