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We now know how things would go down in a real-life Home Alone situation. Rather than being left in his parents' mansion as they jetted off to France, a forgotten child wound up in a parking lot while his dad drove home with the groceries. While leaving a Kentucky Kroger, a dad loaded his bag and his two kids into his car and drove off, leaving his 6-month-old in the shopping cart. Before the baby had time to get into any holiday-themed antics, a couple spotted him and called 911. A few minutes later the police got a call from the dad, who was "totally distraught" about what he'd done. No charges will be filed, but social services will investigate, and both father and son can expect to be mercilessly mocked at Thanksgiving dinner for the rest of their lives. More »
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Crisis alert: America's experiencing a wave of mom-on-mom judgment. Moms can't walk down the street without getting eyeballed and evaluated by other mothers, and they can't resist doing the same in turn to other moms they encounter. It's gotten so bad that soon we may be able to replace the word "judge" with the word "mom," used in this case as a verb meaning "to judge." Who's going to put a stop to it? More »
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Are you planning on giving birth, adopting, or flat out stealing a baby in 2012? If so, you should probably start worrying about whether the wee one's name will be as weird as the names that all the other parents are giving their kids. More »
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New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that America's facing a crisis of unparalleled proportions— no one's having babies anymore. Some experts blame the decline in birth rate on the everlasting economic Dutch oven in which we now live. With an imminent shortage of able bodied youngsters waiting to replace us at our shitty jobs, who's going to pay for our future entitlement costs and feed us thickened coffee when we get old?! Who are we going to call ungrateful slackers in 20 years? More »
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A Newark mother has been arrested and ordered to never contact her infant son after several bad decisions culminating in a Facebook announcement that she was planning on selling him. Her reason? She didn't want to have another kid, because she wanted to go to Disney World. Most fucked up Disney-related maternal absence ever? 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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A new study shows that having a baby lowers men's testosterone levels. However, this doesn't mean they're turning into sissies. More »
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Apparently "baby fever" isn't just something Jennifer Aniston comes down with every time there's a particularly slow week for gossip. Researchers say that the condition definitely exists, and it's been known to infect both women and men. More »
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Dispatches from The Department of Obvious Things! American women who are full time stay-at-home mothers fare worse on mental health assessments than their counterparts who attempt to balance working with motherhood. So, the way to avoid depression in mothers is to make sure that they're working outside of the home? Not so fast- those ladies are depressed, too! More »
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In our Daddy Issues series, a father of a young daughter seeks guidance, hoping to raise a strong woman. He looks to you, dear readers, for insight. More »
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As I waddled into the 7th month of pregnancy, one day at work a friend/co-worker/mother of three came up to chat. As she eyed my growing heft, she pulled me aside and lowered her voice. "So…" she began with a smirk, glancing around quickly to ensure we were speaking privately. "You gonna pull a deuce?" Um, say what? More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5822687&view=rss&microfeed=true As of July 30, Britons will have the chance to win a baby through a scheme by the in vitro fertilization charity To Hatch, after the group was awarded a license from the country's Gambling Commission to sell £20 lottery tickets with fertility treatments, donor eggs or a surrogate birth as a prize, according to the Telegraph. That's actually a pretty nice idea. And anyone can enter to win the once a month lottery — the olds, the gays, the singles, just about anyone! [Gawker] More »
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So, I have this baby. But more importantly, I spent nine months incubating that baby. And apart from the occasionally frank literature out there, exactly zero websites or books I perused during this time truly addressed the biological horrors of pregnancy or post-pregnancy. Sure, they hinted at the fact that I might slowly become a hormonal shapeshifting pod of oozing smells and explosions, and that I'd need few months' worth "recovery," but only in the most sugar-coated tee-hee sort of language. I had no idea how soon I'd be scrounging around on websites postpartum Googling "burns when I pee" and "boobs like taffy." More »
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When a mother in my Butts, Guts, Tris and Thighs class told me about a mock kids' book called Go the Fuck to Sleep, I knew right off I would love it. A day later, when she emailed me the PDF, I laughed aloud. In the book, by novelist and dad Adam Mansbach, a father silently rages at his obstinate toddler, desperate for the child to go down so he can watch a DVD with his wife. I loved the irreverence of the sentiment. I thought the trippy LSD-inspired illustrations by Ricardo Cortés worked perfectly with the text. I related to the underlying message — that all parents need breaks from their kids. Then I closed the PDF, read a few articles about GTFTS' #1 Amazon ranking and 300,000-copy print run, and thought, Why didn't I write that? More »
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Walking to class past the political and cultural smorgasbord of Sproul Plaza at the University of California at Berkeley was a feast for the eyes. There was, of course, the Ralph Nader-loving table teeming with activity and the ever-desolate Berkeley College Republicans station. But the one that always caught my eye was the "Male Circumcision = Genital Mutilation" table. And yes, they had pictures. More »
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A new study of nearly 4,000 women has found that 28 percent of women with two or more children had them by different men. A longitudinal study, it took place over the course of 27 years, with 20 interviews. More »
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Despite America's fervent desire that Jennifer Aniston will spawn, with or without a man, a Pew Research Center poll found nearly seven out of 10 U.S. residents think single mothers are bad for society, UPI reports. More »
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According to a new study, women start losing sleep relative to men when they're breastfeeding — and they never catch up. Could this be a hidden factor behind the wage gap? More »
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One night when Gary Cella was going over homework with his 11-year-old daughter, he was shocked to discover that the assignment included racial, ethnic and gender slurs. More »
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I'm not usually a big ranter — in public, anyway — but at what point did a "holiday" for children become all about women looking sexy? More »
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New research shows hunter-gatherer family structures may have produced nicer people. We smell a new parenting fad — and maybe some useful ideas. More »
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When your mom is strict — but known for bustiers and cone bras — stealing from her closet can be problematic. More »
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Juliet Bridges and her husband are getting a divorce. Her future ex-husband hasn't been living in the family's home since Christmas—but her two children, ages 7 and 9, still don't know that he's never moving back in. More »
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According to the book Frou-Frou, Frisby, And Brick, a compilation of unusual baby names picked from official records, there are children out there named "Anna Sassin" and "Lettice Pray," which would both make pretty decent derby names, no? More »
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This Father's Day, being a dad was apparently more stressful than ever. Explanations for this range from employers failing to take into account new family dynamics to a supposedly "female-dominated world." More »
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A possible answer, and more background here. [Economix/NY Times] More »
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One French feminist has a recipe for women's happiness: ignore the kids. More »
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In a bid to boost the flagging Japanese birthrates, one company has introduced a practice baby, the "Yotaro robotic baby simulator," that makes it all look easy. And really freaky. More »
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According to a study led by Professor Marjorie Gunhoe of Calvin College, children who are physically disciplined between the ages of two and six end up being more successful and well-adjusted than peers who had never been "smacked." More »
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Research suggests that fathers, too, can suffer from postpartum depression. But not everyone's buying it. More »
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In a rather disturbing bit of irony, parents can now take classes that teach them how to parent less. More »
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Bad moms, good moms, moms who drink — the media is so mother-centric these days that it's easy to forget many kids also have a male parent. But according to the New York Times, we ignore dads at our peril. More »
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When English professor Rhoda Janzen moved back in with her Mennonite parents at the age of 43, she was surprised at how much she liked it. I've (sort of) been there. More »
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"Once you become an unwed mom, you're branded as immoral and a failure. People treat you as if you had committed a crime. You fall to the bottom rung of society." In South Korea, social stigma is serious business. More »
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After the death of the "world's oldest mom," NPR's The Takeaway asks Times blogger Lisa Belkin and 56-year-old mom Karen Day "how old is too old" to have a child. More »
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The North Carolina Women's Hospital is offering a Boot Camp For New Dads, a men-only program that lets expecting fathers ask questions, talk about their fears, get advice, and meet other dads and their newborns. [UPI] More »
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Two different stories about selfish dads seem sad and totally retro: More »
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Ha! If this parent is compelled to consult an advice columnist because her teenage son enjoys "gross and obnoxious jokes", what is she going to do when she finds the Playboys under his pillow? [Star-Tribune] More »
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A spate of articles this weekend deal with the ways the modern cult of motherhood does a disservice to women — and men. More »
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