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Mom’s Viral Photo Captures the Heartbreak and Joy of Foster Parenting

By Genevieve Shaw Brown — 2021

A family brought back together and healed is a wonderful thing, but on the other side of that is a foster family left with a broken heart.

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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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Top 3 Reasons I Needed a Break from Foster Parenting . . . and Why That’s Okay

The author feels strongly that foster parents who are able to recognize their limits before they reach them are better equipped to keep going.

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Sara
2021
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Stepmoms Say Kamala Harris’s Embrace of Her Blended Family on the National Stage Was a Long-Awaited Moment

Kamala Harris, the vice president-elect, has no biological children, but embraces her two step children as her own.

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Kelly Burch
2020
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Self-Care for Foster Parents

Parenting foster children who have come to your home from trauma, neglect or abuse is likely the hardest work you will ever do. It requires you to have a wide variety of tools in your parenting toolbox. Self-care for foster parents is one of the most important tools you can have in that toolbox.

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What It’s Like to Be a Foster Mom on Mother’s Day

The author of this essay has cared for 16 kids in the last three years and yet, many people do not recognize her as a “real” mom.

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Manda Carpenter
2021
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Why My Kids Don’t Call Me ‘Mom’

They call me Bapa.

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Ethan Somerman
2019
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On Trans Motherhood, and My Reality of Never Having Biological Children

“Maybe instead of biology, I should be cursing the culture that taught me I’m less of a woman because I can’t have children.”

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Mey Rude
2018
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How to Talk to Your Daughters (and Sons!) About Periods

Every woman has an awkward story about her period. And some of that awkwardness might be due to the fact that periods, although a completely natural and vital part of humanity, are shrouded in taboo (in fact, the word taboo, from the Polynesian word tapua, means “menstrual flow”)!

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Katie Hintz-Zambrano
2016
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12 Things to Say to Your Daughter to Encourage Healthy Sexuality

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends starting to teach children about sexuality as early as 18 months, which allows them to learn about themselves slowly and over time, just as they learn about absolutely everything else.

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Erin Feher
2019
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To My Daughter, With Love

Mother-daughter bonds within the Black community can be powerful counters against systemic oppression. We invited four moms to share their wisdom in open letters to their daughters.

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Patrice Peck
2021
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