There was a moment in the first few months of my son’s life when I caught a glimpse of perspective about my sleep-deprived desperation. I remember it as the middle of the night, but it might have been the middle of the afternoon—the black garbage bags we had duct-taped in a patchwork quilt of gloom over each of our…
When Cassidy Green learned that she was pregnant, she and her husband didn’t discuss cribs, co-sleeping, or even diapers. Instead, they worried about more basic and immediate challenges, like whether Green would be able to spend more than a few days with her baby. Green was in prison, nine years into a 15-year prison…
The Federal Election Commission has ruled that a New York woman running for Congress can use a portion of her campaign funds to pay for childcare.
The Senate is expected to change its rules to allow Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) to bring her newborn onto the chamber floor, Politico reports.
We already know that the so-called “motherhood penalty” plays a key role in the persisting gender wage gap. Now, a new unpublished study suggests an age-related catch: When women in opposite-sex marriages have their first baby before the age of 25 or after the age of 35, they eventually catch up with their husband’s…
Charlize Theron’s latest movie reunites her with screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman in Tully, which isn’t explicitly a sequel to Young Adult, but might as well be.
In 1994, a nationwide study conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services found that “black children were more likely to be taken from their homes than white children, even when the type and severity of the alleged abuse were the same.” The numbers from that study are staggering, revealing a pattern of…
I first met musician Martha Wainwright last year when her older son Arcangelo was in the same kindergarten class as my older son Jesse. We have younger sons about the same age too, and we live in the same neighborhood in Montreal. I remember seeing her once at the grocery store before we’d formally met. She was…
Nearly one out of every five mothers—18 percent—regrets the name she picked for her kid and would choose differently if she got a redo. Oops!
Here’s what I knew about Bad Moms before heading to the movie theater this weekend: that it’s called Bad Moms, that the poster has some ladies on it raising the roof and that those ladies are actresses I don’t actively dislike: Mila Kunis, Kathryn Hahn and Kristen Bell. Now, having seen the movie, I also know that the…
At 20 weeks pregnant, I started to feel like I was losing my mind. Not only was I leaving my phone and keys everywhere, a habit I regress into whenever I’m balancing more than I can handle, but worse, I began making the kind of mistakes in my pop culture writing I’d be horrified to find in someone else’s drafts:…
After a prenatal yoga class this past winter, two other pregnant women and I started talking about how we craved milk all the time. This was gross, we agreed.
In the spring of 2014, I paid a woman $200 for permission to let my eight-month-old son cry himself to sleep. Technically, what she did was (1) spend an hour drawing up a “sleep evaluation” based on a “walk-through audit” of my apartment and (2) have a brief chat with my husband and me. Those were nice touches, and…
Earlier this week, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Colorado filed discrimination charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of four pilots for Frontier Airlines. The charges allege that four pilots, Randi Freyer, Brandy Beck, Shannon Kiedrowski and Erin Zielinski, were…
Last month, Daljinder Kaur, a woman in her 70s, gave birth to a healthy baby boy. Kaur underwent two years of IVF treatments and, according to the Washington Post, she did so against the initial objections of doctors and her 79-year-old husband, Mohinder Singh Gill. After undergoing IVF at the National Fertility and…
People toss a lot of unsolicited advice your way when you’re trying to get pregnant. Advice like, “Try acupuncture.” Or “Don’t stress.” Or, my personal favorite, “You should hang upside down after sex.”
There’s a certain doom that sets in around the eight-month mark of pregnancy; an acknowledgment that soon the baby will be here, you’ll have no time for yourself, and the next few months will inevitably be spent in a sleepless, unshowered haze. It’s around that time that many expecting mothers decide that they need to…
In February 2015, Indiana’s House unanimously passed approving baby boxes, climate-controlled boxes that function a bit like incubators where unwanted newborns can be safely left. The proposal passed earlier this year, and, late last month, baby boxes began to be installed throughout the state.
On Saturday, neglectful new mother Chrissy Teigen had the audacity to go out to dinner with her husband John Legend, leaving her new baby at home. According to E! News, she has since been condemned for daring to have a life.
It’s a well-known fact that daycare is a financial drain on working parents; despite the often low pay of daycare workers, the cost of tuition and enrollment fees can easily run thousands of dollars a year. Now, new research from the Economic Policy Institute shows that in nearly half of the United States, full-time…
