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  • One Thing You Should Know About Protecting Your Kids

    by Susan Vespoli
  • There’s More To My Identity Than Being A Wife And A Mother

    by Dani Gabriel
  • Parent-Shaming Is Changing The Way We Raise Children. Here’s Why It Needs to Stop

    by Liz Greene
  • Parenting Through Grief

    by Naomi Raquel Enright
  • Finding A Mother Role Model In An Unlikely Place

    By Jody Allard
    November 16, 2018

    This fictional character I admire so much had a bad day as a mom, too. And like me, she owned it. She admitted fault. And she apologized to her daughters for her behavior.   “Stop yelling at me,” I shouted. “I won’t be yelled at!” My 10-year-old daughter made a sound between a growl and […]

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  • Navigating Life As A Noncustodial Mom

    By Jennifer R. Farmer
    November 13, 2018

    Most weekends, my $43,000 salary was going toward rental cars, hotels, and eating out with Cameron. During those years, I never took a formal vacation – my vacation was spending time with my son. I am a mom of a 19-year-old son and a 20-month-old daughter. My children are the loves of my life. Every […]

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  • Why Kicking My Daughter Out Was The Best Decision For My Family

    By Anonymous
    November 8, 2018

    She still comes over and tries to stay for as long as possible. I still have to remind her to leave. It’s a work in progress, and maybe it always will be.  I never spent much time worrying about parenting adult children. In the early years, I was too busy navigating the complex demands of […]

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  • The Problem With Saying You’ll Adopt After You Have Biological Kids

    By Angela Tucker
    November 1, 2018

    After growing up with seven siblings who were adopted into the family and one sibling who was biologically connected to my parents, I recognize that society places a higher value on children born biologically than those who are adopted. “I want to adopt, but I’m going to have biological kids first.” Have you heard anyone […]

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  • What I Learned After A Week Of Free Childcare

    By Lindsay King-Miller
    October 30, 2018

    Childcare is an accessibility issue. It determines a parent’s – let’s be real, a mother’s – ability to exist in the world and participate in society. Every summer I volunteer for a week at a day camp where girls learn to play music. It’s a beautiful oasis of art and feminism and love and empowerment, […]

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  • On Family Life With Down Syndrome

    By Anne Penniston Grunsted
    October 26, 2018

    Down syndrome is definitely part of our life, but it’s not the axis on which our family turns. Ten years ago my wife and I found out that the child she was carrying had Down syndrome. I immediately assumed this child would suck all of the “me” out of my world and that I was […]

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  • I’m Queer And So Are My Kids

    By Dani Gabriel
    October 26, 2018

    There’s a strong narrative in our country that suggests queer people shouldn’t be allowed to raise children because they’ll make them queer. My response to that is: Queer people should raise children because we give them possibilities. The other day I was caught in the kind of awkward conversation I am often caught in. My […]

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  • Why I Treat My Ex-Husband’s New Daughter Like My Own

    By LeoLin Bowen
    October 23, 2018

    I wanted to give my son what I didn’t have: the feeling that he didn’t have to choose, and that he had one big family. “Why would you not get a dog?” My friend is asking this because I was talking about wanting to adopt a pet. “Well, my son is allergic to cats and […]

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