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A new study has found something that may upset those who do a lot of their catching up with loved ones over the internet: a mom's voice is less reassuring when it comes over IM. More »
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Parents might prefer that their teenagers just accept what they say without argument. But a new study reveals — perhaps unsurprisingly — that teens who push back against their moms' words tend to be better at resisting peer pressure as well. More »
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A study has revealed a surprising new way to diagnose depression: have patients look at pictures of their moms. Apparently depressed women show unique brain activity when looking at their mothers' photographs. More »
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Fox News anchor and professional mom Megyn Kelly has made a name for herself not only for demonstrating how alternate spellings of common first names are terrible, but also for breaking step with her conservative pundit colleagues to defend paid maternity leave and upper mobility for people born into the middle class. You know, stuff Megyn Kelly did. What a brave, brave lady. More »
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Decades after most mothers started working outside the home, the folks at Nickelodeon have home to a stunning realization: Many moms like to unwind by watching a little TV after the kids go to bed. Now Nickeloden is hoping to attract viewers between the hours of 9 p.m. and 1 a.m. who are free to watch at full volume without fear that dad will hear them in the den. The new programming block will be called "NickMom," because according to the network, these women don't want to forget for a minute that they're mothers, not just people. More »
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Apparently moms go to great lengths to avoid giving birth on Halloween. And even their bodies conspire to keep babies from popping out on the scary holiday. More »
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Last night's True Life: I Have A Hot Mom began with a somber statement from a fifteen-year-old girl: "My name is Tori, and for pretty obvious reasons I'm always being overshadowed by my Mom." Camera zooms in on Tori's mother's humongous breasts. More »
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Part thine waters! Lo and behold! For now that you have bred, there is perhaps no time where unsolicited gifts are more free-flowing and abundant, the kind of gifts that say, we thought of you, if by "you" we mean "us," and you better believe we still want a thank-you note. In other words, hope you don't hate STUFF, cause you're getting it — and how. What, you don't like free stuff for your baby? What are you, from Nazi Russia? More »
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Being trapped in a bus, plane, or car with a screaming infant is unpleasant for all involved. The non-relatives of the infant are annoyed, the infant's caretakers are often embarrassed, and the infant herself is usually the state of utter discomfort and frustration that can only come from not being able to effectively communicate with anyone that you're about to shit your pants. One Oregon bus driver decided to try to take the "crying infant on public transportation" matter into her own hands earlier this week by kicking a mother and her crying baby off of her bus. As could be expected, the mother and child's ejection caused more problems than it solved. More »
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Since science has never, ever been used to justify treating people badly, it's important that us women seize the fresh opportunity upon us to capitalize on new studies showing that a man's testosterone level drops when he becomes a father. There's never been a better time than in your man's current weakened, non-roving-eye state to manipulate him into becoming the good little woman you always thought he could be. More »
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Interviews with sperm and egg donors reveal an interesting dichotomy: while men who give sperm think of themselves as fathers, women who donate eggs don't see themselves as moms. This may say a lot about how we view motherhood and fatherhood. More »
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Good news for slightly misanthropic types the world over: Did you know that one of the least publicized advantages of having a baby is that it is, in fact, the greatest excuse ever invented to get out of doing stuff, with no loss of honor? When you were childless, you pretty much had to get spinal meningitis to talk your way out of a bridal tea or a work-sponsored tree-planting ceremony. Now, you have a living breathing RSVP with "decline" checked off, and contrary to what employers everywhere suspect, approximately 97% of the time, you're not even bullshitting. More »
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Right after I found out I was pregnant, I did what any 33-year-old woman who wasn't sure whether she would ever have kids would do. I Googled "drinking before I knew I was pregnant," and "smoking before I knew I was pregnant" and then "was riding a jet ski at the lake before I knew I was pregnant and bounced up and down like a bunch of times all day long kinda hard is that bad?" But then I pictured my actual devil-may-care life -– bars! shows! barbecues! pool halls! -– with an actual baby in it, and asked the Internet for realz: "Where can you take a baby?" More »
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"My mom is going to kill me." A phrase used so often it has lost its urgency and true meaning. More »
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Sashay Brown, a police officer in Washington, D.C., recently asked her superiors to let her stay on a desk job. She'd been sent out on patrol, but there was a problem. More »
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New research suggests that environmental factors may play a much bigger role in autism than previously believed — and one culprit may be antidepressants. More »
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This morning on Today, we learned that horseplay teaches boys and girls life lessons, like thinking fast and shaking things off. A book called The Art Of Roughhousing, by an MD and a PhD, supplies parents with information and tips about how to participate in physical play with their kids, absurd but true. Watching the dads featured in the segment get on the floor and roll around with the children, I had two reactions: First, I wanted to yell at the fathers. Who's the kid and who's the parent? You're gonna break a vase! Or an arm. Stop rolling around on the carpet and change some lightbulbs or take out some trash. Then I remembered how, when I was a kid visiting in rural Georgia, my grandfather used to pick me up by one leg and one arm and hurl me into the creek. I'd swim back to shore as fast as I could, eager for him to do it again. More »
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The Long Goodbye is Meghan O'Rourke's memoir about her mother's death from colorectal cancer and her own grieving process. In this excerpt, O'Rourke, her brothers Liam and Eamon, and family friend Diana have an emotional encounter with O'Rourke's mom, who is beginning to suffer confusion as a result of her illness. More »
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A new survey shows many Baby Boomer moms are supporting their adult kids, financially or otherwise. Should we really be surprised? More »
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The mind, it boggles: it seems women (at least, the 2,000 polled) consult their moms for honest shopping opinions. More »
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Continuing a long tradition of baseless alarmism and personal anecdotes woven into manufactured non-trends, this weekend's Wall Street Journal features a piece wherein the mother of a 13 year old girl simply cannot believe that the nation is letting its teenage daughters leave the house dressed like little harlots. Why do we let girls dress like that? laments Jennifer Moses. This piece is more problematic than Elton John playing Rush Limbaugh's wedding, but let's focus on two of its especially off-putting elements- slut-shaming and obliviousness. More »
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Oh, dear. Yesterday, a mom wrote that she prefers her son to her daughter. People expressed criticism. She wrote another piece explaining the first piece. And things only degenerated from there. More »
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Oh, dear. When one mom wrote a post explaining that she loves her son more than his older sister, she must have known it would provoke strong reactions. It did. More »
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One mom defends her right to bottle-feed her baby without judgment. We're with her. But then she tests our theoretical tolerance by giving her reasons. More »
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Staying home with one's kids is a totally valid choice. And lots of people want a card to hand out. So it's easy to see how "the Mommy Card" must have seemed like a great idea to whoever had the brainstorm. More »
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The more mothers work, the fatter their kids get. The solution is obviously to live in a world where, magically, economic necessity doesn't dictate that two parents earn incomes in order to adequately support children. Be richer, moms! More »
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Friday we posted a film clip from 1945, in which women were pummeled and prodded by machines. On Saturday, we received a fascinating email regarding said video. More »
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Feeling pressure to appear perfect, moms are apparently fibbing about everything from how much TV their kids watch to how much private time they spend with their partners. So they say, anyway. More »
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The human mother has seen many metamorphoses of late, from the early "soccer mom" to the "Mama Grizzly" and "Tiger Mother." Herewith, we chart the common Mom's fascinating evolution — and her disturbing future. More »
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This was a year — and an Oscar season — for our enduring fascination with bad cinema mothers. More »
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Some women apparently suffer from "tocophobia" or an "unrelenting fear of childbirth." But is this really that irrational? More »
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But what you say to her may depend on your childhood. According to a new study, oxytocin exaggerates the feelings guys have about their moms — good or bad. More »
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Though their careers don't depend on quickly returning to the catwalk, about two thirds of the 6,200 new moms polled in a British survey said they feel pressure to lose weight as quickly as possible after giving birth. More »
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"My own mother didn't foster an upbringing that made women seem like loving people," says a man writing to advice columnist Cary Tennis. What follows brings up a whole host of difficult issues. More »
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Pamela Madsen is a sex educator, which she offers as the explanation for why she gave her octogenarian mother a vibrator for her birthday. More »
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"There's nothing like seeing yourself in your kids," writes K.J. Dell'Antonia, "but what do you do when the part you see is exactly the part you hate most?" That part, for her, is rage. More »
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It never gets old! And who can resist a story titled "The Mother of All Makeovers?" More »
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Writes Amana Fontanella-Khan in XX, "Reproductive tourism in India is now a half-a-billion-dollar-a-year industry, with surrogacy services offered in 350 clinics across the country since it was legalized in 2002." It's a far cry from Baby Mama. More »
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I know The Joy Luck Club like the back of my hand … Unfortunately. More »
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