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The recent hyper-scrutiny of newly pregnant supermodel Chrissy Teigen proves there is nothing too inconsequential to…

Making friends with other parents can be a strange, often terrible, and unfortunately necessary—and, at least at…

If you want to test your limits as a parent—or a person—visit any Internet parenting group. Nowhere is there a more…

Lots of formerly personal, private everyday happenings become rudely public when you have kids. Not only will you…

Babies are sometimes delightful and hilarious and fun, sometimes more soul-crushingly boring than a conversation…

Congrats, you just had a baby. Trouble is, it shows. Good news, though, there’s an easy fix for regular people who…

Tossing a dirty diaper seems simple enough: Chucking it anywhere that’s far away from you is clearly the most…

Only children are so easy for people to hate. They are, as the caricature goes, spoiled from having been loved and…

It’s summertime, and if you have a kid, you have to fill their time with something. Your first thought is probably…

For the first time in seven years, the birth rate has risen. The 1 percent increase is attributed to women in their…

It’s Father’s Day, so let this be the year we all finally recognize that dads and their goofy dad stuff—monster…

It has been argued that it would take an annual salary of $120,000 to recoup stay-at-home-mothers fairly for the…

As a culture we collectively lament what happens to women when they become mothers: We watch friends, colleagues,…

My sweet 5-year-old likes to run around naked wearing only a belt, which she ties so that it has a long piece…

If you’re nearing an age where you want a child, but whatever stars you imagined aligning in your favor to do so…

I’m all for science and research and studies. But sometimes I’m also really for when we just sit back and admit we…

There is a video going around the Internet of a man finding out he is about to become a father. But instead of…

So much for the punk rock Lego movie message of not following the instructions: In a recent edition of the Lego Club…

It was bound to happen: One day, women would awake from the fog of cultural myth-making to realize that having kids…

Do you know a pregnant colleague? Have you already drawn negative conclusions about her intentions, abilities, basic…