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Nike's labor practices have motivated a wave of youth activism, but where do these children get their ideas?
By Dawn MacKeen
May 29, 1998
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Mid-air diaper changes and occasional airsickness aside, flying with my toddler at the controls brings back the thrill I felt when my dad taught me to fly.
By Phaedra Hise
April 27, 1998
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How is it that children have such a highly attuned sense of picking the worst possible moments to remind you of the true nature of parenthood?
January 19, 1998
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A string of lurid cases this year drew attention away from the real challenges that confront American families.
By Stephanie Coontz
December 23, 1997
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The winner of Mothers Who Think's Drama Queen for a Day contest, Halloween edition, is
revealed
November 24, 1997
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Film critic Charles Taylor advises parents on how to introduce their children to the movies
By Charles Taylor
November 17, 1997
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'Grimm's Grimmest' restores the original Grimm fairy tales in all their bloody detail. Illustrated by Tracy Arah Dockray, introduction and translation by Maria Tatar.
Introduction by Camille Peri
October 31, 1997
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It's more honest about your family's finances than you are
Introduction by Camille Peri
October 28, 1997
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Sobbing toddlers, husbands with no hair on their knees and breezes up their freezer sections, windows lined with dark towels and animals with oral fixations -- we at Mothers Who
Think believe each of these poor wretches deserves a prize, don't
we, ladies?
By Mothers Who Think
September 23, 1997
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By Mothers Who Think
September 12, 1997
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Tips for sleep-deprived parents on the best sleeping appurtenances.
By Inda Shaenen
September 9, 1997
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A recent court ruling in California reignies the debate over whether prgnant minors are capable of making a decision about abortion.
By Dawn MacKeen
August 12, 1997
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We have a winner!
By Mothers Who Think
August 8, 1997
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Just when we started feeling sorry for ourselves again, in came this month's Drama Queen submissions...
By Mothers Who Think
July 30, 1997
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The virtues of a cup of tea.
By Dawn MacKeen
July 29, 1997
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How did psychologist Judith Wallerstein become America's divorce czar? A profile by Joan Walsh.
By Joan Walsh
July 23, 1997
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By Anne Lamott
July 17, 1997
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In this second excerpt from her journal, Aggie Max describes life at the dead end of the system.
By Aggie Max
July 14, 1997
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After deliberations as agonizing as the ordeals
described by the entrants, our gentle readers have chosen the
winner of the Salon Drama Queen for a Day contest.
By Mothers Who Think
July 11, 1997
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A welfare mother's tragicomic tale of life in the system.
By Aggie Max
July 8, 1997
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Aggie Max, author of "The Last Resort: Scenes from a Transient Hotel," says it's not just the lack of money that makes escape nearly impossible it's the culture of poverty.
By Suzette Lalime
July 8, 1997
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We asked readers to
share their rottenest-day-as-a-parent stories with us, and now, after
much e-mail outpouring of woe and calamity, we want to share
their stories with you.
July 2, 1997
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Gillian Slovo, author of "Every Secret Thing," has spent a lifetime coming to terms with having a heroic mother and father.
By Gillian Slovo
June 30, 1997
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Mindlessly permissive parents are subjecting their kids to movies they're not ready for -- and don't want to see.
By Catherine Seipp
June 27, 1997
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Police say an Ohio woman left her children in squalor while she surfed the Net.
June 24, 1997
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