By Jessica Humphries — 2021
We explore what other cultures can teach us about raising well-rounded human beings.
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How do you find time? Is it better to date someone else who also has kids? And when should you introduce them?
For around 30 years, researchers have studied how having children affects a marriage, and the results are conclusive: the relationship between spouses suffers once kids come along.
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A career time out to stay home with your kids might be tempting, but there’s a lot to consider before you give notice.
A baby changes everything—including, oftentimes, your interest in sex. Still, the goal isn’t to get the “old you” back. It’s to figure out who you are now.
Perhaps it is time to open the door on the secret, sexual lives of mothers, even if it is hard for children—and we, as readers, have all been children—to contemplate this taboo: our own mother’s sexuality.
Working mothers are either willingly leaving jobs or are being forced out in extraordinary numbers. Mothers’ V-shaped employment patterns are becoming prolonged and more severe in this global crisis.
Mothers earn 3% per hour less for each child they have compared with women working in similar jobs who do not have children, say researchers.
I thought motherhood would make me weak and passive but it has filled me with fury and passion instead.
When women in the workplace talk about their children, they’re often seen as distracted. When men talk about their children, they’re viewed as caring dads. New research supports that the “motherhood penalty” is real.
Being a mom with anxiety, hard as it is, is actually the only kind of mom I want to be.