Motherhood

6/15/2018 talking to
9 Boys on What Their Dads Taught Them About Fatherhood “I couldn’t see how I could do a better job than him.”
By Anna Silman

6/15/2018 father's day
I Had No Idea What Fatherhood Was Going to be Like What was it about the baby that was so time-consuming, so life-consuming?
By Keith Gessen

6/13/2018 working moms
6 Women on How They’ve Been Treated at Work After Having Kids What anti-mom bias at work looks and feels like.
By Jen Gann

6/8/2018 no man's land
An Illustrated Explainer of the Gender Pay Gap for New Moms See how gender and race can influence how much money parents make.
By Mona Chalabi

6/8/2018 babies!
Pippa Middleton Confirms She’s Pregnant with Her First Child She announced the pregnancy yesterday in a fitness column.
By Sarah Spellings

6/7/2018 science of us
The Psychological Effects of Being Separated From Your Child A specific type of parental grief.
By Cari Romm

6/7/2018 everyday horrors
School Teaches Kindergartners About Lockdown Drills With Chilling Nursery Rhyme Remember thinking Humpty Dumpty was morbid?
By Leah Rodriguez

6/7/2018 new mom
What Does Being Pregnant Feel Like? Part VI “No one mentions pregnancy feels like a mounting heaviness that is both weight and memory.”
By Tina Chang

6/6/2018 close reads
The Beauty and Banality of Motherhood Stories Onscreen The best of these stories use a distancing lens to capture the transformative, magical, grinding exhaustion of motherhood.
By Kathryn VanArendonk

6/6/2018 how i got this baby
The Mom Who Had an Abortion at 8 Months, Then a Surprise Pregnancy I believe I lost more than a fetus, less than a baby. It’s radically different from if I were to lose my daughter.
By the Cut
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