Daughters - Salon.com

Should I move back to Wisconsin because my mother has cancer?

By Cary Tennis — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

I moved to Colorado but could move back if I had to.

Grown women: I want mommy!

Tracy Clark-Flory — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

Are women in their 20s and 30s increasingly dependent on mommy dearest?

Is that laptop eating your daughter's brain?

Tracy Clark-Flory — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

Girls are tossing their Barbie dolls aside, in favor of dressing up virtual dolls.

Cheney barks at the Wolf

By David Puner — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

Journalist asks a question the U.S. No. 2 doesn't like.

September song

By Gary Kamiya — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

Back-to-school day came again, and with it an urgent question: Why does it take the memory of a Hello Kitty lunchbox to make you realize that life is not a drill?

Daddy's little virgin

Lynn Harris — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

Father-daughter purity balls: Eeuw.

How do I reverse my mother's curse?

By Cary Tennis — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

For generations the women in my family have been attacking their daughters. Now it's my turn.

A brief history of the (over)involved father

By Anthony Giardina — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

Do you have to go to every Little League game to be a good dad? An excerpt from "The Bastard on the Couch."

Meeting my daughter

By Laura Stevens — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

In my fantasies, I'd embrace the Romanian toddler I was about to adopt and we would gaze lovingly into each other's eyes. But I didn't love her when we met. In fact, I didn't even like her.

My daughter's reality show

By Stephanie Lehmann — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

I was cool, I watched "Sex and the City" with my 14-year-old daughter. But then she asked, "Can Ben sleep over?"

When a man loves a daughter

By Stephen J. Lyons — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

She lives in a teeny apartment in a scary part of town. What's a dad to do?

Educational television

By Stephanie Lehmann — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

If I watch "Sex and the City" with my teenage daughter we end up discussing important subjects like vibrators, blow jobs -- and the female point of view.

"Hang in there, sweetie. I'll be home in 18 years"

By Stephen Reid — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

As a father behind bars, my role is to listen to my daughter's life.

I've never liked you

By Carolyn Magner Mason — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

For a brief decade, I was the most popular member of the family. Then my daughter turned 14.

An ode to the erection

By Adrian Blevins — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

I sing, for my daughter, of shanks and shafts and the endearing contrast between the mind's affairs and the body's undiscriminating inclinations.

Mentor in masturbation

By Morgan King — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

My daughter discovered the art of self-pleasure when she was 2. I was a late bloomer.

My spawn arrives!

By Hank Pellissier — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

In the third installment of his lesbian sperm donor saga, Hank Pellissier describes the arrivals of his two babies -- born 21 days apart.

Crossing over

By Beth Kephart — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

In her new novel, Jayne Anne Phillips, the princess of literary darkness, plumbs the emotional netherlands of motherhood.

My heart aches for what I can't have

By Clea MacAllister — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

My daughter's boyfriend is the man of my dreams.

The story of your grandmothers

By Susan Straight — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

It is the stuff of tragedy and myths and fairy tales.

Babes in Willy Loman-land

By Bob Whitby — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

Why does my kid have to sell stuff door-to-door for her school?

"Anywhere But Here"

By Mary Elizabeth Williams — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

Mom looks like a cheap hooker; anguished daughter broods. Must be a chick flick.

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

By Susie Bright — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

Why is it no one ever asks John Updike where hiskid is while he's on book tour?

There goes my baby

By Stephen J. Lyons — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

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

By Jayne Anne Phillips — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:02:00 PST

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