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  • Letters

    "A woman who has a history of abusive relationships is now living in the house of a rapist. And your advice is not to inform her?" Readers question Cary Tennis' response to the rape victim who gave her daughter up for adoption.
    May 11, 2005

  • Letters

    "You know nothing about the author other than what she writes here. How dare you judge not only her, but all other women in her position?" Readers defend Debra Ollivier's essay about her nanny.
    May 10, 2005

  • Bad chemistry?

    After a lifetime of dealing with depression, I finally started taking medication -- a few weeks before I got pregnant. The drugs changed my life. But did they change my baby's, too?
    By Ayelet Waldman May 9, 2005

  • Letters

    Readers respond to Cary Tennis' story about the "Runaway Bride."
    May 9, 2005

  • Letters

    "Can you please stop publishing articles about how hard, complex and difficult it is to be a white, upper-middle-class, educated mother?" Salon readers take issue with Debra Ollivier's essay about nannies.
    May 6, 2005

  • Letters

    Readers respond to Ayelet Waldman's column about the complexities and inadequacies of statutory rape laws.
    April 27, 2005

  • Letters

    "When did we become so enthralled with the neuroses of upper-middle-class, white, stay-at-home mothers?" Readers respond to Noelle Howey's essay about overly anxious parents.
    April 26, 2005

  • Raped by statute

    Eighteen-year-old Matthew Limon is serving 17 years for having consensual oral sex with another boy. His case reveals our society's bigotry -- and our inability to think straight about teenage sexuality.
    By Ayelet Waldman April 25, 2005

  • Letters

    "Good girl or bad girl -- I don't know anyone who isn't a little bit of each." Readers respond to Corrie Pikul's interview with author Karen Stabiner.
    April 22, 2005

  • Letters

    SYA readers give their own advice to the mother who can't leave her kids.
    April 20, 2005

  • Letters

    Salon readers sound off about chronic pain and childhood obesity.
    April 19, 2005

  • Letters

    Readers get intimate about penis enlargement and baby lust.
    April 14, 2005

  • Baby lust

    I have four children. Four is plenty. So why can't I stop thinking about having a fifth?
    By Ayelet Waldman April 11, 2005

  • Letters

    "Why should wearing appropriate clothing be the privilege of only one body type?" Salon readers respond to Lynn Harris' article about fashion for plus-size teens
    April 8, 2005

  • Letters

    "I cannot believe how uptight and shrill Salon's readers can be." As the debate over Ayelet Waldman's column continues, many readers come to her defense.
    April 1, 2005

  • Letters

    "As a gay man, I found the column condescending, out of touch, and insulting." Salon readers react to Ayelet Waldman's latest essay.
    March 31, 2005

  • "You're supposed to marry the person you love, Mom"

    My 7-year-old son's best friend is a lesbian and he says he wants to be gay. I hope he is.
    By Ayelet Waldman March 28, 2005

  • Letters

    Has Martha Stout been watching too much "Buffy"? Salon readers sound off about speed and sociopaths.
    March 28, 2005

  • Letters

    Readers share their own pain at facing end-of-life decisions for people they love, and reflect on the Terri Schiavo case.
    March 25, 2005

  • Letters

    "There is now, officially, nothing new left for women to complain about." Salon readers of both sexes sound off about Rebecca Traister's article on wife shopping.
    March 23, 2005

  • Letters

    Jane Smiley and others defend Ayelet Waldman from "overheated" readers.
    March 22, 2005

  • Letters

    "I'm not insensitive to the agonies of mental illness, but I was tremendously disturbed by this display of self-justifying narcissism." Salon readers sound off on Ayelet Waldman's debut column.
    March 18, 2005

  • Living out loud -- online

    When I started blogging, I discovered a compulsive need to open the tattered edges of my emotional raincoat and expose the nasty parts beneath. But at what cost to my kids?
    By Ayelet Waldman March 14, 2005

  • Letters

    "Fugliness transcends ugliness. Experiencing it is physical, emotional, spiritual and ontological devastation." Salon readers speak out about the pleasures and the provenance of the word "fugly."
    March 11, 2005

  • Letters

    "Farhad! Stephanie! Andrew! Rebecca! Back to your desks! There are real stories out there to deal with!" Readers sound off on Salon's coverage of Martha Stewart's release from prison.
    March 9, 2005
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