Pregnant Smoking Mom Is the New Botox Mom

This week BBC3's answer to Teen Mom—Misbehaving Mums To Be—featured a 20-year-old who said smoking 3500 cigarettes while pregnant made her baby stronger. Smoking Mom is the new Botox Mom!
The "Wicked Stepmother": Just Another Way Of Keeping Women Down?
The stereotype of the evil, powerful stepmother is just a caricature. But is it possible that we invented this archetype even though stepmothers are arguably the most vulnerable and disempowered members of any blended family? Psychologist Wednesday Martin thinks so.
Susanna Sonnenberg Adds Another Chapter To The Unhinged Mother Canon
In today's New York Times, famously-scurrilous book critic Michiko Kakutani gives a rave review to Her Last Death, Susanna Sonnenberg's debut memoir about her totally batshit mother, "Daphne." While Sonnenberg's mom "possessed a magical charm and a contagious, manic enthusiasm, especially in...her…
This Is Why Your Children Have Eating Disorders
"All I ever think about is whether my niece is popular, thin and happy enough," semi-insane publicity bitch and plastic surgery enthusiast Peggy Siegal tells Bob Morris in an article about over-involved parents and relatives who insist on making their teens' lives even more miserable than they might be otherwise.…
