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When You're Not a Mother on Mother's Day

Melanie Notkin | Posted 05.09.2012

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Melanie Notkin

Babies are born from the womb. Maternity is born from the soul. There are many ways to mother.

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Arianna Huffington's sister, Agapi Stassinopoulos: A True Savvy Auntie

Melanie Notkin | Posted 05.29.2012

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Melanie Notkin

Agapi Stassinopoulos wants her nieces -- and everyone -- to understand that life's journey is where you find yourself and your passion.

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Unnatural Women: Childless in America

Melanie Notkin | Posted 02.26.2012

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Childlessness is the state into which a girl is born. But once she reaches her mid thirties, that natural state is suddenly deemed unnatural.

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Since When Do Women Become Single Mothers to Be More Attractive to Men?

Melanie Notkin | Posted 02.13.2012

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Melanie Notkin

When did voluntarily becoming a single mother become the barometer for your desire to be a mother, your bravery, and your level of attractiveness to men?

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Has 'Mommyism' Replaced Feminism?

Melanie Notkin | Posted 11.23.2011

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Why is it that the modern mom can love children and her career but the childless woman can only love her career? In America today, has feminism morphed into mommyism?

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The Invisible Infertility

Melanie Notkin | Posted 10.16.2011

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Melanie Notkin

For women like me, we not only grieve the loss of motherhood, but we also grieve the loss of the dream, the dream of finding love and marriage resulting in that beautiful baby carriage.

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The Truth About Childless Women

Melanie Notkin | Posted 09.10.2011

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Melanie Notkin

I'm 42 and still single and I have come to acknowledge the truth: it's very possible I won't have children of my own.

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Honoring Our 'Other Mothers' This Mother's Day

Melanie Notkin | Posted 11.17.2011

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Melanie Notkin

While half of America's women have not begun immediate families of their own, they are contributing invaluably to families around them. It's time to embrace all the maternal women in a child's life this Mother's Day.

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Savvy Auntie, Unsavvy Arrington

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

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This little bundle of cuteness is my friend Jen's baby, Tyler. He's four months old and the first time I met him I agonized over what to get him as a ...

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First Online Community for (Savvy) Aunts Launches

Eric Kuhn | Posted 11.17.2011

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Eric Kuhn

SavvyAuntie.com is the first online community for cool aunts, great aunts, godmothers and all women who love kids. It's like a parenting community for non-parents.

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