As a good progressive parent, I teach my kids about consent. I teach them about gender construction and ableism and abortion and the dangers of colonialism. Being a white mother of white children ...

Last year, a letter in the medical journal Pediatrics argued that the frightening decline in mental health among American kids can be partly explained by a lack of independent play. When kids don ...

When, covered in bodily fluids in a hospital bed, I discovered that my first child was male, I was relieved. I knew from personal experience that it could be pretty sh*tty to be a female in our ...

“You won’t be reading books on how to become a parent, trust me. Once the baby’s here, it’s almost like you know. It just comes naturally.” I respect mothers more than ever now.

No baby bump in the world can come between Victoria Beckham and her love of form-fitting dresses! (As it should be!) Here she is in 1998 pregnant with first child, Brooklyn.Peter Jordan - PA ...

Whether it starts in an exam room or the bedroom, sparks joy or fear, culminates in a marathon labor or an impromptu surgery, pregnancy is surely one of the most wildly unpredictable and uniquely ...

When author Edan Lepucki’s son was in the fifth grade, his Los Angeles school went on lockdown. Through his Gizmo watch, he left a voicemail for his mom that pains Lepucki to remember even now.

Five heavily documented teenagers describe mild embarrassment, a healthy fear of social media, and — get this — empathy for their parents. But what about their children, the kids they ...

Danielle Robinson, 43, packed extra underwear to take to work each day when she was trying to finish her Ph.D. in neuroscience. After delivering her son and sustaining internal and external ...

When Trump won in 2016, there was a groundswell movement to protect women's rights. Suddenly there were seemingly endless books and think pieces about where women go from there, and how to raise ...

Amanda Diekman knows what you’re thinking when you see her three kids running wild in the grocery store. She does not miss your side-eye when she hands one of her kids her phone to watch YouTube ...

I woke up that morning giddy. Something big was happening in our family that day but for once it was not happening to me. I drove us to the urologist’s office, which happened to be in the same ...