Mom shaming has to stop! We need to rally together and encourage each other.
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Research has found that having children is terrible for quality of life—but the truth about what parenthood means for happiness is a lot more complicated.
“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.”
After ten years of talking about having children, two years of trying (and failing) to conceive, and one shot of donor sperm for her partner, Amie Miller was about to become a mother. Or something like that. Over the next nine months, as her partner became the biological mom-to-be, Miller became . .
A lesbian mother grapples with the pain of a child favoring the mother who gave birth to her.
My wife and I have two children in elementary school. Other parents often ask personal questions about how our family was formed, such as whether we adopted or used a sperm bank, who carried our children, who the real mom is, etc.
Lucy Fry was plagued with a multitude of worries about being a non-biological mum. Now that her and her wife's son is almost two, her fears have diminished.
Being a mom for a year now has been such a crazy experience. Nobody can prepare you. It’s exhausting! Like really exhausting. But ultimately, I’d never change a thing about choosing to be a parent and choosing how we are raising Thea (co-sleeping, no pacifier, no bottle, etc.).
Here are five ways it’s hard to be a lesbian mother…
My journey to motherhood turned out to be stranger than the fiction I wrote as a child.
Think lesbian moms are raising their kids totally differently than you are? Think again. This mom tells gay parenting like it really is.