A slightly different version of this originally ran at The Princess Free Zone. Republished here with permission. There is a lot to be said about Ruth Padawer’s recent piece in The New York Times Magazine which asks the question “What’s So Bad About A Boy Who Wants To Wear a Dress?” As gender related topics often […]
Originally appeared on Alternet.org. Republished here with permission. My three sons are happy to leave home—and I’m fine with that. In mid-August I will be driving home to Chicago east on Interstate 80 in a van emptied of clothes, pillows, mini-fridge and plastic bins after dropping my youngest son, Colin, at his dorm at the […]
Edwin Lyngar shares what a divorce and struggling as a single father of two taught him about women and partnerships. We were the classic ’50s power couple. I worked and she mostly cared for the children. She had professional ambitions but was never able to achieve them for whatever reason. I strived to climb a […]
This was originally posted at From Two To One as part of the Last Name Project. Republished here with permission. I grew up in a family where all the women changed their names at marriage (for some this meant changing it multiple times). My mother changed her name when she married my father and changed it […]
Juliet Kelso breaks down the results of a new CDC study that looks at American women and pregnancy trends. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics just published its findings based on contextualized data from the 2011 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). The study, titled “Intended and Unintended Births […]
This was originally posted at The Feminist Mystique as part of the Last Name Project. Republished here with permission. Our naming story is complicated, but ultimately shallow. When we got engaged, my wife and I discussed what name we would take. Our choice of name mattered little as a signifier; we’re both Jewish and at the time enjoyed […]
Introverts require periodic alone-time in order to function properly, so constant connection to their children is simply not reasonable. Does this make them bad parents? No, says Lynn Beinser, it just makes them human. My friend April planned to be an attachment mother. She planned to co-sleep, wear her baby in a sling, breastfeed on […]
Mistakes in parenting are inevitable, but regrets are harder to bear. For Kate McGuinness, not listening to her instincts has proven the most difficult hurdle to overcome. After longing for a child for years, I adopted a baby boy 23 years ago and felt a whole-hearted love I’d never before experienced. However, with that love […]
