So when I imagined having kids, it was always plural. If I was lucky enough to have one child, I knew I wanted to try to have ...

You could almost forget that the "cycle" we're trying to break here is the cycle of abuse. Cycle-breaking is the idea that we ...

And what about the parents giving birth in the labor delivery unit, or coming in for needed C-sections or inductions? The ...

Climate change isn’t going to happen, it’s happening — not to someone else, but to me and my young children, now.

“Now she can go to college,” I joked to a friend of mine when I finally managed to procure for my 5-month-old daughter a Lovevery Play Gym. More expensive than another other baby gym on the ...

“I knew it would be bad, I just didn’t know it would all happen so fast,” Hannah Baker*, a 32-year-old mother of one in the southeastern United States, tells me. “I had already made up my ...

As soon as I quit my job — a decision I made unexpectedly when my son was 8 weeks old — I began to encounter headlines that attempted to quantify my new role. “If SAHMs were paid, their ...

Because we all know we’re supposed to foster our kids’ independence, but sometimes it’s easier said than done.

At 23, more than anything, I thought of myself as single. I was pursuing my goals, my passions, my life. At what point did I have to begin thinking about whether or not I wanted that life to ...

The first time we spent the night together, bodies intertwined, I slept more soundly than I had in months. I awoke refreshed, relaxed, and guilty. I never cuddle my usual sleeping partner in bed ...