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relationships

Will I ever share my bed with a partner again?

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It was hard enough to find somebody the first time, when I was young and untarnished by the scars of motherhood.
By Katherine Sargent

June 23, 2017 Parenting Challenges

Learning how to parent together, after the marriage is over

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I had to let go of the idea that I was the only one who could meet my children’s needs.
By Samantha Shanley

June 22, 2017 Parenting Challenges

If I divorce her dad, will she still be family?

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I could not teach my stepdaughter, this girl so quickly becoming a woman, that to stay was always right.
By Katie Gutierrez

June 20, 2017 Parenting Challenges

Separated from my husband, parenting my daughter

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What if our split isn’t the best thing for her? What if it does irreparable harm?
By Robin L. Flanigan

June 19, 2017 Parenting Challenges

How to RSVP when you are going through IVF

drawing of lots of colored lenvelopes
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Sorry, can’t make it to the sorority reunion. My thermometer says I’m ovulating!
By Amy Klein

April 13, 2017 Family, Obstacles, Parenting Challenges

Pictures of you: choosing a child to adopt

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We’ve raised three children of our own, but still have a little parenting left in us.
By Julianne Palumbo

March 15, 2017 Parenting Challenges

The myth of co-parenting

colourful drawing a mother holding her baby in the crook of her neck
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It made me spitting mad, the way the daily duties of parenting and home ownership began to rest entirely on me.
By Hope Edelman

January 19, 2017 Books, Parenting Challenges

My foster child is gone, am I still a mother?

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I cling to the knowledge that if I have given her anything, I have given her hope. I see it in her smile.
By Jenn O’Connor

January 17, 2017 Parenting Challenges

Almost 40, dating, and I want another baby

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What shocked me most about online dating was the absolute scorn for women who wanted, or already had, children.
By Dena Landon

November 30, 2016 Parenting Challenges

At the end of a family’s difficult year: gratitude

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If bad things really do happen in threes, then my son being hit by a car had completed our 2016 trifecta.
By Samantha Shanley

November 28, 2016 Parenting Challenges

What the Dutch can teach us about our daughters and sex

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While American parents are talking to their daughters about the risks of sex, the Dutch are talking about the joys of intimacy.
By Peggy Orenstein

October 10, 2016 Books, Culture

Why our kids need others to love them

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Caregiving, which is typically undervalued and underpaid, needs to be given the respect it deserves.
By Vicki Larson

October 4, 2016 Parenting Challenges

There’s the birth, and there’s the baby

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Any guilt or reservation about a “failed” birth plan was replaced by an unwavering commitment to my son.
By Stephanie Noll

August 8, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

We are too obsessed with the mother-child bond

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Is the mother-child bond really so fragile that it threatens to fall apart at any moment without the parents’ constant vigilance?
By Olga Mecking

July 25, 2016 Culture, Parenting Challenges

A stepson’s summer visit

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It is an awesome responsibility to be entrusted with the care of someone’s child, but for the first time I’m less anxious about it.
By Teri Carter

July 12, 2016 Family, Parenting Challenges

Cousins can be complicated

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Cousins are more complicated than I’d realized. They give more than I thought possible, but they also demand more than I’d ever known.
By Antonia Malchik

June 6, 2016 Family

A different kind of birth

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Would having another baby after 50 salve my grief over my children leaving home?
By Andrea Jarrell

May 1, 2016 Culture

Of course I told my twins who was born first

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Does the minute matter? If they didn’t know about it, would Baby A tease Baby B less? Would she watch out for her less? My hunch is no.
By Francie Arenson Dickman

May 1, 2016 Culture, Family

On telling my kids I love them

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I don’t think we are a family who loves each other in some especially profound way. We have just made the words that stand for our love a part of the verbal dance we do.
By Lauren Apfel

May 1, 2016 Culture

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