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MOMMY DEAREST: 13-Year-Old Girl Tries To Kill Mom Over Curfew, Cops Say

2012-05-24T08:51:25Z

HESPERIA, Calif. — A 13-year-old girl used Mother's Day to seek forgiveness, promise to behave and reassure her mom that she loved her. The hand...

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Kip Patrick: Forgetting Grandma

2012-05-21T05:55:58Z

It was my first backpacking trip abroad, a one-year trek through Central and South America, and I did a very bad thing. For the first six weeks I was ...

Read more: The South, Maw Maw, Kip Patrick, Mother's Day, Alzheimer's, Travel, Grandmothers, Grandma, Travel News

Natalie Thomas: Why I Took a Facebook Hiatus

2012-05-18T18:07:53Z

Facebook is addictive. You feel inclined to read, stalk and share. Only in this forum would stalking be the more acceptable practice of the three. In this case, it's the sharing that's the problem.

Read more: Easter, Sharing, Mother's Day, Status Update, Social Networking, Digital Age, Spring Break, Online, Oversharing, Facebook Status, Facebook Friends, Facebook, Costco, Comedy News

Daniel Heimpel: Foster Care Counts

2012-05-18T17:01:34Z

It is "Foster Mother's Day" and Gabbi is one of 2,200 foster children and their families who will cycle through Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker's 1.24-acre home and garden on Los Angeles' West Side.

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Robert Koehler: Violence and Greeting Cards

2012-05-17T23:01:52Z

The history of violence that is coming to Chicago belongs entirely to NATO. What a paradox. We mask unutterable brutality and an agenda of endless violence and global domination in the language of Hallmark greeting cards and turn sound cannons on the ensuing cries of outrage.

Read more: Mainstream Media, Nato, Mother's Day, Pakistan, Chicago, Protests, Julia Ward Howe, Afghanistan War, Nato Summit 2012, Politics News

Liz Black: A Daughter's Love

2012-05-17T14:27:16Z

I felt myself breaking down. I kept thinking back to the things I never did, that I would never be able to do with her. I began to mourn my Mother while she was still alive.

Read more: Parkinson's Disease, Happy Mother's Day, Surgery, Mother's Day, Motherhood, Poetry, Mothers, Life, Happy-Mothers-Day, Poems, Fatherhood, Happy Mothers Day, Love, Jam, Poem, Arthritis, Women News

Julie Stewart: Mothers and Mandatory Minimums

2012-05-15T15:07:22Z

Mothers dispense and believe in justice. But as mothers like Janet Earle have learned the hard way, mandatory sentences that ignore individual circumstances do not deliver justice. They inflict unnecessary pain and misery, and they must be repealed in Florida and across the country.

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Coleen Rowley: Militarization of the Mothers: You've Come a Long Way, Baby, from Mother's Day for Peace

2012-05-14T12:55:15Z

Feminist war hawks don't want to talk about the women and children victims of war--or even count them--any more than their male counterparts.

Read more: Mother's Day for Peace, Atrocity Prevention Board, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, Most Powerful Women, Condoleezza Rice, Humanitarian Intervention, Libya, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Mothers Day, Secretary of State, Condi Rice, Madeleine Albright, Julia Ward Howe, Video, Politics News

Michael L. Millenson: Burying a Life in My Mother's Obit

2012-05-15T12:21:52Z

My bruised feelings notwithstanding, I suppose the Post reporter did us a favor. In just a few sentences she summed up my mother's life in a way that made the paper. And yet burying my mother's real identity for the sake of a few inches of type, continued to gnaw at me.

Read more: Obituaries, Motherhood, Mothers Day, Working Mothers, Stay at Home Mothers, Mothers Obit, Media News

Chai Ling: An Unhappy Mother's Day in China

2012-05-15T11:17:10Z

On this Mother's Day, however, Chinese women have little to celebrate. In the past month, Chinese officials once again renewed their commitment to enforcing the One-Child Policy for years to come.

Read more: China One Child Policy, Mothers Day, One-Child Policy, Mothers Day One Child Policy, Mother's Day China, Impact News

Gretchen Burns Bergman: Mother's Day: Tears and Triumphs

2012-05-13T22:36:29Z

For most women, Mother's Day is a time to honor and celebrate motherhood. For countless other women, it also marks a day of grieving and loss.

Read more: Addiction, Drugs, Families, Moms, Incarceration, Parents, Prison System, Mother's Day, War on Drugs, Parents News

Larry Ross: First Motherless Mother's Day -- Not

2012-05-13T20:39:08Z

This will be the first Mother's Day of my life without my mother physically, but she'll be with me in spirit.

Read more: Death and Dying, Loss of Mother, Ruth Ross, Love, Mother's Day, Mothers, Life and Death, Heaven, Fifty News

Kristen Howerton: The Only Mommy War Worth Waging

2012-05-14T17:46:52Z

Let's stop quibbling about what competent mothers are choosing for their kids, and step it up for the kids that don't have one

Read more: Foster Children, Social Justice, Mother's Day, Mommy Wars, Motherhood, Global Motherhood, Foster Care, Mothers, Adoption, Parents News

Jessica Massa: 5 Ways to Talk to Your Mom About Your Love Life

2012-05-14T15:44:31Z

Share enough to convince her that just because you aren't "dating" someone in a way that she easily understands doesn't mean you are romantically doomed or considering another sexual orientation.

Read more: Fifty Shades of Grey, Twitter, Dating Advice, Post-Dating World, Kindle, Romance, Mother's Day, Pinterest, Dating, Adele, Motherhood, Millennial Generation, Facebook, Technology, Love, Texting, Mothers and Daughters, Women News

19 Honest Mother's Day Cards

2012-05-14T15:21:30Z

Mother's Day is upon us again, that annual pain in the ass of ungrateful little punks who don't know how much their mother went through for them. We a...

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Debra L. Ness: Continuing the Commitment to Working Mothers and Families

2012-05-13T19:00:58Z

The sad truth is that becoming a mother in this country too often means the loss of a job and/or the beginning of financial hardship.

Read more: Workplace Equality, Pregnancy Discrimination, Paycheck Fairness Act, Paid Sick Days, Paid Leave, Fair Pay, Congress, Working Women, Mothers Day, Rebuild America Act, Healthy Families Act, Wage Discrimination, Equal Pay, Women News

Alex McCord: Just Pay the Kid

2012-05-14T11:47:54Z

Never, I mean never, underestimate the good feeling you get from your child doing something you want them to do. This Mother's Day, my husband and 6 a...

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Elizabeth Gore: A Real Gift to Mothers: Join the Fight Against Malaria

2012-05-14T14:49:30Z

The Kakuma refugee camp is mostly women and children, resilient mothers who grabbed their little ones and braved a dangerous journey to escape conflict. Thanks to UNHCR, they are safe from violence; now, their enemy is a mosquito.

Read more: Refugee Camps, Kakuma-Refugee-Camp, Nothing but Nets, Global Motherhood, Mother's Day 2012, Mother's Day, United Nations Foundation, South Sudan, Impact News

Ed Felker: Flying

2012-05-14T13:32:42Z

Read more: Photography, Mothers Day, Hummingbird, Mother Tribute, Home News

Francine LeFrak: A Mother's Day Mission

2012-05-10T11:19:19Z

This Mother's Day, I am even more motivated to find what else we, as women, can do on this day to advance global womanhood and empower each other.

Read more: Rwanda, Women's Empowerment, Women, Mother's Day, Cambodia, Wall Street Journal, Un Women, Mothers, Women News

Sheila Moeschen: Mom Enough? How About More than Enough Mom?

2012-05-14T13:14:14Z

Our caregivers deserve recognition and attention for the rich and complex lives they lead as unique individuals, not media stereotypes.

Read more: Pregnancy, Women, Special Needs Children, Moms, Feminism, Mother's Day, Women's Health, Parents News

Bonnie St. John: What 'The Sound of Music' Meant to This Single Mother

2012-05-13T20:38:06Z

We seldom celebrate the kind of moral and personal courage that Maria von Trapp exhibited. But that's the kind of 'happily ever after' that resonated for the battle-weary single mom who raised me.

Read more: Stereotypes, Single Mothers, Nazis, Mother, Mother's Day, Motherhood, Mothers Day, The Sound of Music, Feminism, Mothers and Daughters, Women News

Trevor MacDonald: M/Other's Day

2012-05-14T12:33:24Z

To some people it may look like I am terribly mixed up, but in reality, I simply sorted my life out before starting my family.

Read more: Birth, Milk Junkies, Transgender, Breastfeeding, Mother's Day, Attachment Parenting, Trevor MacDonald, Parents News

Sybil Adelman Sage: Manning Up to Motherhood

2012-05-14T11:36:38Z

Many of us mothers with children under the age of 70 living at home are having trouble finding time to read; we're busy cutting our children's steaks and setting out their Lipitor.

Read more: Lipitor, Ann Romney, Hillary Rosen, Mothering, Mother's Day, Elizabeth Badinter, Ann Enright, Mothers, Parents News

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard: Where Do Babies Comes From? Reviewing Ina May Gaskin's Birth Matters

2012-05-14T11:40:52Z

Ina May Gaskin has been delivering babies for nearly 40 years and her latest book, Birth Matters, A Midwife's Manifesta (Seven Stories) shows you how....

Read more: Lake of Fire, Seven-Stories, The Business of Being Born, Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives, Birth Matters, Ina May Gaskin, Los Angeles Film Festival, Mothers Day, Books News