Motherhood

Women's Equality ... Why Not Now?

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, National Organization for Women, Women's Rights, Women's Issues, Motherhood, Family and Medical Leave Act, Pat Schroeder, Women and Work, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Ron Dellums, Gloucester High School Pregnancy, Family Values, Lisa Witter, Women's Health, Women and Politics, Hillary Clinton, Women of Color Policy Network, Politics News
Marcia G. Yerman

Firecrackers and picnics aside, Abigail Adams didn't get to sign the Declaration of Independence, Betsy Ross sewed the flag, and how many people even know who Deborah Samson Gannett was?

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A Woman Is Making Love To A Tree...

Claudia Ricci | Posted 06.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, Empty Nesters, Love and Loss, Empty Nest Syndrome, Living News
Claudia Ricci

Oh please. Not this. Not this woman standing here, her body plastered against a tree. Picture her, in her pale green running shorts, a sky blue t...

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Pregnant Mothers' Cell Phone Use Can Harm Babies

ENN.com | Posted 06.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Motherhood, Pregnancy, Hyperactivity, Cell Phones and Cancer, Cell Phones and Babies, Green News

Women who use mobile phones when pregnant are more likely to give birth to children with behavioral problems, according to a study of more than 13,000...

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An Autism Mom Leaves the Pod

Kim Stagliano | Posted 05.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Autism, Motherhood, Travel, Autism One, Embracing Autism, Living News
Kim Stagliano

Leaving "the pod," as I call going out of town, requires Herculean effort. I'm sure most moms can relate, especially autism moms.

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Katie Knows Best: Let Suri Have Her Bottle

Tatiana Boncompagni | Posted 05.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Tooth Decay, Parenting, Motherhood, Milk, Katie Holmes, Suri Cruise, Maternal Profiling, Suri Cruise Pictures, Bottle, Celebrity Kids, Living News
Tatiana Boncompagni

My daughter is 22 months old, nearly two, and she still gets her milk bottle -- just like Suri Cruise, the oft-photographed daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. Does that make me a bad mother? According to the celebrity weeklies, yes.

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Love, Conditionally: How One Mother Tested the Limits of Unconditional Love

Felicia C. Sullivan | Posted 05.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Single Motherhood, Motherhood, Mother's Day, Parenting, Mother, Living News
Felicia C. Sullivan

In Brooklyn, my mother and I lived with a man named Avram who taught me two sentences in Hebrew: I love you and I need five hundred dollars. His body ...

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What Baby Mama Is Missing

Louise Sloan | Posted 05.12.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Single Moms, Single Mothers by Choice, Single Parenthood, Knock Yourself Up, Choice Moms, Baby Mama, Sperm Donor, 30 Rock, Mother's Day, Single Motherhood, Motherhood, Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey, Sperm, Amy Poehler, Louise Sloan, Entertainment News
Louise Sloan

The Tina Fey film could have been even funnier and a lot less predictable if it had taken its cue from real single moms by choice.

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A Great Mother's Day Present? A Break

Laura Vanderkam | Posted 05.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, Work-Life Balance, Peru, Vacations, Mother's Day, Childcare, Living News
Laura Vanderkam

Flowers are nice. But a break might make you a better mom. At least that's what I've been thinking this spring. Would my husband take the baby for a week so I could travel somewhere exciting?

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These Are the Good Old Days

Molly Magid Hoagland | Posted 05.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Death of a Parent, Motherhood, Mother's Day, Living News
Molly Magid Hoagland

The demands of my own two boys can be intense and continual, leaving scant time for contemplation. But it's Mother's Day; I'm always good for brunch and a little reflection.

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Friday Talking Points [31] -- Time To Beat McCain

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cindy McCain, Motherhood, General Election, Campaign, Republican Cloth Coat, 2008, Richard Nixon, Midotw, Old, Nancy Pelosi, Cloth Coat, John Edwards, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Tax Return, Are You Better Off Now, North Carolina, Elitist, Gas, Upside the Head, Democrat, Presumptive, Congress, 08, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, Election, Teresa Heinz Kerry, 08 Election, Nomination, Elections, Apple Pie, Mddotw, Ageist, John McBush, Hillary Clinton, $1.49, Speech, Mother's Day, Democratic, Iraq, Endorsement, Republican, Mcsame, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Price of Gas, 2008 Campaign, Primary Campaign, Price, 100 Years, John McCain, Gasoline, House, Louisiana, Primary, Age, War, George W McCain, Gas Price, 2008 Elections, 2008 Election, 08 Campaign, Harvey Weinstein, Third Term, 2008 Presidential Race, Nominee, Indiana, Checkers, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Now that that's all over with, can we please focus on beating John McCain? Virtually everyone (with the possible exception of Hillary Clinton -- I gue...

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Making Peace with Mom

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 05.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, Peace, Mom, Mother's Day, Mothers, Mother's Day Cards, Living News
Alison Rose Levy

It isn't so easy to feel warm and cuddly if you had a Mom who wasn't cut out for motherhood. I help people to make peace with Mom and to come to terms with their relationship.

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Motherhood is a Friendship-Killer

Irene S. Levine | Posted 05.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Time, Female Friendships. Women, Mother's Day, Best Friends Forever, Friendship Deficit, Motherhood, Circle of Friends, Toxic Friends, Bff, Living News
Irene S. Levine

This Mother's Day, give yourself a little gift that no one else would ever think of. Jot down an appointment on your calendar to have lunch with a friend, or to have a girls night out.

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Mother's Day Born Yesterday: A Quick Century of Big Change for Modern Moms

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 05.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Mother's Day Centenary, Birth Control, Mother's Day, Family Leave Insurance Act, Paycheck Fairness Act, Work/Life Legislation, Abstinence-Only Education, Motherhood, Prevention Through Affordable Access Act, Motherhood Activism, Healthy Families Act, Mothers Day, Living News
Elizabeth Gregory

The centennial Mother's Day offers us an occasion to look back at the transformations the world of motherhood has undergone since the holiday's start.

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Halle, Baby! Cate, Baby!: Scripting the New Later Motherhood

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 04.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Helen Hunt, Changing Lifescripts, Later Motherhood, Cate Blanchett, Halle Berry, Pregnancy, Motherhood, Fertility, Amy Poehler, Older Moms, Breaking Living News, Living News
Elizabeth Gregory

We're asked to think simultaneously that nobody can get pregnant after 35 and that everybody (at least all celebs) can. But, later motherhood is not just a celebrity thing.

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A Life of Fear and Resignation, Coming Soon to a Theater Near You

Melissa Lafsky | Posted 04.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Men, Marriage, Motherhood, Women, Love, Living News
Melissa Lafsky

I may end up wizened and alone; I may not. But either way, it won't be because someone decreed that my fate as a woman was "Settle, or Else."

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April is Earth Month -- Mother Earth, Motherhood -- The Holiest of Holies

Paige Donner | Posted 04.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Earth Month, Motherhood, Dna, Mother Earth, Earth Day, Paternity, 23andme, Cherish, DNA Day, Neglect, Environmental, Sustainable, Humanity, Holiest of Holies, April, Spittoon, Uk, Npr, Canada, DNA Data Bank, Japan, Scientificmatch, Britney Spears, Living News
Paige Donner

The month of April is a celebration of Earth. What is more synonymous with Earth than Mother? And yet, just as we are recognizing the serious conseq...

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Is Unwed Motherhood Really the Problem?

Louise Sloan | Posted 03.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Single Moms, Knock Yourself Up, Unwed Motherhood, Peggy Drexler, Universal Healthcare, Single Mothers, Single Motherhood, fauxrealtho.com, Slate, Emily Yoffe, Sex Education, Marriage, Unwed Mothers, Single Fatherhood, Susan Golombok, Fatherhood, Public Education, Cambridge University, Louise Sloan, Single Mom, Motherhood, Parenting, Feminism, Cornell, Living News
Louise Sloan

Is lack of a marriage license so bad for kids that any kind of married parents are better than literally any kind of single one?

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Punished for Being Pregnant

Pamela Paul | Posted 03.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Women in the Workplace, Motherhood and Work, Gender Discrimination, Working Mothers, Pregnancy, Motherhood, Work-Life Balance, Discrimination Against Mothers, Parenting, Feminism, Momsrising, Parenthood, Maternal Profiling, Single Mothers, Work, Moms Rising, Sexism, Discrimination, Living News
Pamela Paul

There's a lot governments and corporations and individual bosses need to do to fix this maternal profiling mess. But it's time women (and come on, men, too) started getting angry, loudly, about it.

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Another Reason Why I'm Glad I'm Not Silda Spitzer

Vicki Iovine | Posted 03.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Eliot Spitzer Wife, Silda Spitzer, Motherhood, Teenage Daughters, Dina McGreevey, Eliot Spitzer, Living News
Vicki Iovine

Just as Silda Spitzer's wifely instincts scream at her to murder Eliot slowly and painfully, her motherly instincts whisper to her to save her children's father.

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The Corporate Freshman: Entering the Ring of Motherhood versus Career

Alexandra Levit | Posted 03.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, The Corporate Freshman, Maternity, Motherhood Versus Career, Giving Birth, Living News
Alexandra Levit

More so than graduating college, getting married, making VP at a communications consulting firm, or publishing a book, having a child is a defining rite of passage into adulthood.

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Well Baby, Well Mom

Heather Cabot | Posted 03.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, The Well Mom, The Balanced Life, Living News
Heather Cabot

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Feminist Infighting

Rebecca Walker | Posted 03.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: To Be Real, The Nation, Feminist Infighting, Women of Color, Feminist, Motherhood, Third Wave Feminism, Race, Alice Walker, Womanist, 2008 Election, Feminism, Barack Obama, Patriarchy, Marriage, Feministing.com, Second Wave Feminism, Women for Obama, Sexism, Jessica Valenti, Racism, Feminists, Politics News
Rebecca Walker

Perhaps a feminism that has not responded to the needs of its constituents needs to die. Perhaps Obama is unintentionally killing feminism and facilitating the rise of "feminisms."

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Parents, Are Your Kids Duping You?

Michelle Renee | Posted 02.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, Parenting, Kids and Lies, Living News
Michelle Renee

The biggest problem facing parents, and the media, is that they, for the most part, are in denial.

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I Pimp Out My Kid All the Time!

Linda Keenan | Posted 02.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Pimping, Motherhood, David Shuster, Msnbc, Oprah, Chelsea Clinton, Hillary Clinton, David Shuster Pimp, David Shuster Chelsea Clinton, Living News
Linda Keenan

I used the phrase so much back in my TV days that I have carried it with me to a new life of suburban mommy drudgery, and in fact I find myself pimping out my own toddler quite frequently.

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Going The Distance

Heather Cabot | Posted 02.06.2008 | Living

Read More: Motherhood and Work, Motherhood, Motherhood and Balance, Working Mothers, The Balanced Life, Living News
Heather Cabot

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