This originally ran on the Good Men Project. Republished here with permission. Telling your daughter she can be strong and capable will never be the same as letting her find it out for herself. What is your body for? Ask a little boy and he will tell you it is for running and jumping and […]
Lisa Levey shares the story of Jennifer, a single mother by choice. The interview includes how she came to the decision, the process and everything she’s learned along the way. Eager to tell the real-life story of a single mother by choice, I interviewed Jennifer, a Boston area real estate professional. She’d always wanted to […]
Being a feminist mother means doing the hard shit. Lynn Beisner shares the harrowing incident that made her willing to do whatever it takes. Trigger warning: Article includes descriptive scenes of an injured animal. If you’re an animal lover like us, just be prepared. I became a feminist because God did not keep his end […]
Going from being a single mother making all the decisions in her daughter’s life to sharing a home with her boyfriend and his son wasn’t easy, but Maria Peña is figuring out every day how to make a blended family work. “What the hell was I thinking when I decided to raise my child with […]
Lynn Beisner shares Joey’s trials at home, a resentful husband who says he’s tired of working for “the man” all day then coming home to work for “the wife.” Joey is one of several conservative men that I have been interviewing about how they interpret their role as father. “The real problem is The List!” […]
Lyla Cicero offers her fiery take on Anne-Marie Slaughter’s “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” Iceland, Germany, Japan, Malta, New Zealand, Latvia, Belarus, Moldova, Romania, Czhech Republic, Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Ecuador, and a total of 178 countries have federally mandated paid maternity leave. Fifty of these countries offer leave to fathers. (Yes, they all […]
Katerina Zacharia’s son misses his daddy, but still considers his mommy—who often fills the role of both parents—a superhero. Yesterday was like any other day. I picked my son up from daycare. He jumped into my arms and I tossed him high up in the air a few times and carried him to the car…no […]
Christine Woodman offers a follow-up to her piece from last week about Mark Regnerus, the sociologist who claims gay parents are bad for children. Last week I wrote about Mark Regnerus’ paper on the host of negative outcomes created by LGBT parenting. In my article I suggested that perhaps Regnerus’ study was deliberately flawed in […]
