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Surprising Facts and Research About Stay-at-Home Moms

By Apryl Duncan — 2019

There's no shortage of opinions about women who stay home to raise their kids. But what does research say? The top seven findings research has discovered about stay-at-home moms may surprise you.

Read on www.verywellfamily.com

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The Double Culture Shock of Becoming a Mom While Living Abroad

You’ve probably heard of culture shock, the feeling of disorientation a person feels when faced with another culture, way of life, or set of attitudes. For me, it was twofold: I was in a new country and I was a new mom, two ways in which my own life suddenly felt utterly unfamiliar.

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Olga Mecking
2017
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Before You Let Your Child Fail, Read This

It’s not easy to let our kids be less than perfect.

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Rachel Simmons
2015
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How Cultures Around the World Think About Parenting

What can American parents learn from how other cultures look at parenting? A look at child-rearing ideas in Japan, Norway, Spain—and beyond

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Amy S. Choi
2014
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Parenting a Third Culture Kid

Third Culture Kids (TCKs): Children who don’t identify with a single culture, but have a more complicated identity forged from their experiences as global citizens.

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Elke Robshaw
2015
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I Let My Child Create Their Own Gender Identity. The Experience Has Been a Gift for Us Both

We weren’t going to assign a gender or disclose their reproductive anatomy to people who didn’t need to know, and we were going to use the gender-neutral personal pronouns they, them and their.

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Kyl Myers
2020
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Explaining Nonbinary: How to Talk to Kids About Gender

Gender isn't limited to boys and girls, so it's time to break the habit of assuming people must be one or the other. The best place to start? Teaching the right concepts to our children.

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Amber Leventry
2020
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Sex and the Single Parent

How (and why) they find the time to parent and find a partner.

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Michael Castleman
2016
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The Two Reasons Parents Regret Having Kids

Feelings of ambivalence about parenthood aren’t necessarily going to do harm to children. But when regret suffuses the parent-child dynamic, the whole family can suffer.

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Gail Cornwall
2021
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When Mommy Dearest Isn’t So Dear: Unpacking ‘Mommy Issues’

Do you have a strained or complicated relationship with your mother? Maybe difficulties from childhood carried over into your adult relationships, setting the stage for complications with romantic partners or your own children.

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Crystal Raypole
2021
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Sex with the Kids Around: What Are the Rules?

As much as you would like to keep your parenting life and sex life as far apart as possible, there will be times when they sometimes awkwardly cross paths. We talked to the experts to get the rules on what's appropriate and what's not.

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Francesca Di Meglio
2014
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