Daughters

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  • When did you stop abandoning your child? and other FAQs from the road

    Why is it no one ever asks John Updike where hiskid is while he's on book tour?
  • There goes my baby

    Once, I thought my daughter would win the Nobel Prize. Now that she's started college, I just hope she keeps her phone, her power, her housing -- and remembers to wake up for class.
  • On not having a daughter

    Something beyond life or death lingers of the girl I didn't get to mother.
  • Girly girl

    If you spent your girlhood learning to toughen up, what happens when your daughter is the sensitive type who makes flower stews?
  • Hot Flash: I want your sex

    How ethical is it to choose the sex of your baby, and what does it mean for the future of the human race?
  • I want your sex

    How ethical is it to choose the sex of your baby, and what does it mean for the future of the human race?
  • Don't complain. Don't explain

    Charming and vicious, brilliant and stupid, my father was not an easy person to be around -- even during our final visit.
  • Are we there yet?

    What had I left in the Florida of my childhood vacations that I wanted my children to find?
  • Sharps and Flats: Pearl Jam

  • Temporary god

    Even a mother's love can be replaced.
  • The Things We Carry

    In a world of masks, our families -- broken-down, weary, enduring -- connect us to who we really are.
  • Hi, we're Ingrid and Isabella, and we've got a cleaning problem

    Famous actresses by day, at night they sought the "high" that only cleaning can bring
  • Daddy's little girl meets daddy's little girl

    Are older men who marry younger women randy old goats?
  • The Shadow Man

    Alex Kuczinski reviews Mary Gordon's memoir, "The Shadow Man: A Daughter's Search for Her Father".
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