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I’m a Foster Parent. Am I a Mom?

By Georgene Smith Goodin — 2016

My status as a foster parent is ambiguous by nature. Do I count as a mom? Legally? No.

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Finding Love (and Marriage) as a Single Mom

If you’re a single mother who has fallen in love, make sure you know what your sweetheart is prepared to do about becoming part of a family before you start dreaming of tying the knot

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Marie Hartwell-Walker
2016
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Are There Any Mothers Out There Like Me?

I spent months agonizing over my lack of a partner or high-powered career. But it was my depression that almost upended my dream of motherhood.

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Sophie Sills
2020
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Motherhood Changes What Women Want in a Husband or Partner

They say that having kids changes everything. That is neurologically, psychologically, and economically true.

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Sarah Bregel
2018
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40 And Dating As A Single Parent: What I’ve Learned And How I Found The One

I feel like dating used to be so simple. People meet, they arrange a time and place and hopefully it turns into happily ever after. Fast forward to now, where almost nothing is done face to face anymore — especially this year.

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Tanya Hayles
2020
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Swiping Right in the Fertility Doctor’s Office: On Pursuing Romance and Single Motherhood at Once

Why do unmarried women have to choose between motherhood and a love life? Can't we try for both at the same time?

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Sophie Sills
2021
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What It’s Like to Date When You Have Kids

How do you find time? Is it better to date someone else who also has kids? And when should you introduce them?

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Sophia Benoit
2019
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Have Children? Here’s How Kids Ruin Your Romantic Relationship

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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Matthew D. Johnson
2016
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Postpartum Sex: Why You Don’t Want It—and Why That’s OK

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.

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Leah McLaren
2020
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Motherhood and Sexuality by Bette Gordon & Catherine Texier

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.

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Bette Gordon, Catherine Texier
2000
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Does a More Equal Marriage Mean Less Sex?

The very qualities that lead to greater emotional satisfaction in peer marriages, as one sociologist calls them, may be having an unexpectedly negative impact on these couples’ sex lives.

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Lori Gottlieb
2014
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