For low-income mothers, purchasing diapers is not exactly in the budget. Even those who receive welfare assistance have a difficult time making room for such an expense. But a new bill in California aims to specifically cover the cost of diapers for mothers, bringing at least a little relief when it comes to the…
One Michigan Concerned Mother is so, so, so mad that a hospital that she took her daughter to requested speaking privately with her 17-year-old daughter that she's gone public to warn other Concerned Parents that the government is restricting their "God-given" right to control all aspects of their children's life.
Today was a big momma thang for Lil' Kim, who gave birth to her first child this morning in New Jersey. The baby—a little girl who weighed in at 6 pounds, 5 ounces—has become yet another in a long line of unfortunately-named celebrity babies.
Tara Sawyer is a 37-year-old British woman who says she's so addicted to the "buzz of pregnancy" that she will keep giving birth until her "womb falls out." Ew.
Nice moms are over. If a writer wants to make good, timely television these days, looking to Faye Dunaway’s tour-de-force in Mommie Dearest is apropos. Long live the evil cinematic mom.
I’m getting married in 12 days and while I’m excited that my mother will be there, I’m also nervous. I love my mom but there is literally no one in the wide world that can make me crazier — with just a few words — than her. But after reading advice from a Georgetown linguistics professor, I am going into my nuptials…
For these moms, all 100 years or older, motherhood has a lot of meanings. The women talk about everything—from how it felt to find out they were going to be moms to the heartbreak of sending their children off to war.
Even in death, this woman still gives me nightmares.
There's been lots of political yammer (yammer because it's definitely not dignified enough to merit being called "discussion" but it's not yet loud enough to be called "yelling") in recent days and weeks about women who have political ambition. People are concerned, really. Concerned that maybe the women who have…
Bald eagles? Meh. Apple pie? You can get that at McDonalds in Europe. Jingoism? Ever seen the Olympics? Everyone's into that. If you're looking for the most quintessentially American trait, look no further than the way this country expects new mothers to pull themselves up by the umbilical cords.
My mother is a hoarder. Is yours? And will you have to see her over the holidays? If so, I'm sorry. It's the worst! Not to worry; this guideline I've created will provide you with all the tools you'll need to— who am I kidding, it's going to be a disaster no matter what.
"The goal of men and the world should be to make all mothers happy. Women, as mothers of the earth, deserve the utmost respect. If the goal is to make all mothers happy, we won't go too far wrong." Orlando Bloom, to Elle.
21-year-old Alevtyna Savchuk is facing charges after police said she passed out on the street and left her one-month-old son in his stroller several blocks away. Scary stuff.
OK, while the term "all babies are beautiful" gets thrown around a lot, let's be honest: there have been times when you've seen an infant and thought, "Ew."
A Utah woman has given birth to a 14 pound, 22-inch-long baby boy. Calm your wincing ladyparts, though — he was delivered via Caesarean Section. Still. Jesus Olympian Stretch Mark Christ.
My mother couldn’t stop running.
Alex Peek, a rich, stay-at-home mother of two doesn't want a third baby because it will put a cramp in the plans she had for her first two children. And, at 38, she really really doesn't want to face another sleepless spell with a newborn. She won't get an abortion ("obviously," she explains, but fails to elaborate),…
No, thankfully Caitlin Moran isn't dead. She's alive and — for the most part — doing quite well. There's just one thing: Her daughter is about to turn 13 and the stress of it is making Moran possibly smoke herself into an early grave. And it was with that in mind that she penned this funny, touching essay for The…
A new poll finds that women start behaving like their mothers—adopting the same attitudes, sensibilities, and tastes—around the birth of their first child, or about the age of 31. That's either a good thing or a bad thing, depending on the parties involved.
Walking dangerously parallel to a path first trod by Michael Pollan when he complained that feminism is one of the unwitting culprits of obesity in American children, researchers in India are starting to blame Indian mothers for spreading childhood obesity. Mothers are overfeeding their kids, suggests a new study…
