Once, in town to help me take care of our 6-month-old while her son was traveling, my mother-in-law and I watched a movie ...

I wasn’t going to let another relationship head off my dreams of starting a family. Even if it was a really, really good one.

Growing up, I used to beg my parents to have another baby. “Please,” I would plead with them, “I need a brother or sister!” I really wanted a sister when I was younger, but as I got older ...

When Trump won in 2016, there was a groundswell movement to protect women's rights. Suddenly there were seemingly endless books and think pieces about where women go from there, and how to raise ...

At 4 a.m. on her due date, Sarah Chapin woke up to irregular contractions. They were nothing intense enough to cause Chapin to panic. This was her third pregnancy, and she knew the drill.

I’ve always been a late bloomer. I had my first kiss at age 17, my first date at 19, and at age 41, I had my first abortion. In January 2017, I spent the 27th week of my pregnancy in a ...

“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 ...

I tried on my own to educate my boys about sex; really, I did. For a few years I was gripped with the awesome responsibility laid at my feet, to send four men out into the world who were evolved ...

This year, my 9-year-old daughter was assigned her first research report at school. She was excited to learn new facts about her topic, and she was very glad she’d been partnered with a specific ...

When our boys are little, micromanaging their influences can feel white-knuckle doable (if not practical). “I’m raising a tender little Ferdinand!” we say with bright eyes and new-parent ...