Family MattersParenting
Bye-Bye, Baby: Why Selling Your Crib Hurts
I sold my children’s crib last week. When I share that news, I announce it gravely, with a generous side of melancholy.
Bonnie Rochman
Bonnie Rochman writes about parenting for TIME. She is a former TIME intern who has also reported from the Middle East, Myanmar and Vietnam for the Boston Globe, the Jerusalem Report and Fortune. A former staff writer at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. — where she was the paper's parenting blogger, chronicling the wacky yet universal idiosyncracies of her three children — she now lives in Seattle.
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Universal Children’s Day: Poor Kids Speak
Saturday, Nov. 20, is Universal Children’s Day, as declared by the United Nations, and a new survey of children illuminates the wants and needs of kids living in poverty.
Family MattersSexuality
I ♥ Boobies: ACLU Defends Girls’ Right to Wear Sassy Bracelets
I ♥ boobies. They nourish children. They define a woman’s silhouette. And sometimes, they turn toxic.
Family MattersParenting
Attachment Parenting: The Root of all Evil? Erica Jong Thinks So
I have never understood all the fuss about attachment parenting. The term does not resonate with me.
Family MattersInfertility
Sperm on Steroids: 6 Inches Long and Raring to Fertilize
Call them sperm on steroids, these 6-inch (15 cm) long wriggly organisms that Australian fertility specialists have magnified more than 7000x to help determine which are most likely to fertilize that lucky egg.
Family MattersPregnancy
George W. Bush, His Mom and Her Fetus: Not So Weird After All
It’s America’s fixation with happily ever after that’s partially responsible for the uneasy silence with which we approach miscarriage.
Family MattersPregnancy
Why are Anorexics More Likely to Have Unplanned Pregnancies and Abortions?
Many women — and doctors too — believe that women with anorexia stop menstruating. First of all, that’s not true. And secondly, here’s a quick fertility refresher: just because a woman doesn’t get her period doesn’t …
Family MattersPregnancy
Could Painkiller Use in Pregnancy Cause Problems in Baby Boys?
There are plenty of medications pregnant women are advised to avoid, but over-the-counter pain relievers like Tylenol and Advil are not among them.
Family MattersParenting
Study: Breast-Feeding Moms Get Just as Much (or Little) Rest as Formula-Feeders
Having a baby is the equivalent of deciding that an uninterrupted night’s sleep is overrated. But mothers hoping to get a little more shut-eye by formula-feeding should put that notion to bed.
Family MattersReproductive Health
Late-Term Abortions: Q&A With the Last Remaining Doctor Who Performs Them
No doubt, being an abortion doctor is a stressful and dangerous profession. Being an abortion doctor who performs abortions well into the second and third trimesters only ups the ante. Ask Warren Hern, the only doctor in America …
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Of Pandas and Pregnancy: Cub Born in Atlanta
Are expectant pandas subject to ultrasounds in the bamboo thickets of China? Probably not.
Family MattersInfertility
Want to Freeze Your Biological Clock? One Doc Says, Go for It
After 10 years of marriage ended in divorce and no children, Julie Lorber knew she had to take extreme measures if she ever hoped to become a mother.
Family MattersFlu
Who’s Afraid of the Flu? Not Moms
In a typical flu season, up to 150 U.S. children die; last year’s numbers were even worse: the swine flu pandemic killed 1,100 kids. Still, one-third of U.S. moms don’t plan to get their children a flu shot this season, …
