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Sex and the 7-year-old boy
Parenting manuals don't tell you how to handle it when your son has a crush on you.
Confessions of a teenage mom
My son and I grew up together, will grow old together--and saved each other.
How many working fathers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
One. But only if a working mother bought some while shopping for diapers on sale before picking the kids up from soccer practice and ordering a pizza for dinner on the car phone.
America's war on children
Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West have written a call to arms for American parents. But their big-tent strategy leaves us stranded at the front.
The happy prisoner
Because of Whitewater and Kenneth Starr, she may not be seeing the outside world for the next several years, but Susan McDougal regrets almost nothing.
A death in the family: Linda McCartney, 1941-1998
Paving the road to Yale -- or Palookaville
For the meritocratic baby boomer generation, choosing between public and private schools for one's children is a loaded decision.
Scenes from a Shake-'N-Bake life
With 'The Lunch-Box Chronicles,' former druggie and bad girl Marion Winik is being hyped as the boomer Erma Bombeck. But in her review of the book, Jennifer Reese says Winik is so blissed out on momhood she makes Bombeck seem cynical.
Unspeakable losses
Why don't Americans talk about their lost pregnancies?
Can you hold? I've got sobbing on Line 2
Working from a home office means trying to keep your professional image intact while your kids yell, "You big sucky poophead!" in the background.
Boys without men
When a middle-class mom needs fatherly advice for her son, she turns to a gang member named Crazy Ace.
Peep show
A grown-up bite of a favorite childhood candy resurrects one mom's loss of innocence and a remembrance of Easters past.
Dear Daughter: Go to jail. Love, Mom
Pro-family advocates would rather pass judgment on Monica Lewinsky's mom than on the government forcing her to testify against her child.
The fun police
A single mom muses on motherhood's most distasteful role -- enforcer of rules and regulations -- made even more thankless when good-time dad hasn't got a clue.
Women beware women
Our ongoing national catfight has revealed an unpleasant truth obscured by the smarmy rhetoric of "sisterhood": Women have always betrayed each other.
Strait-laced sisters
Liberal journalist Elinor Burkett met the enemy -- conservative women -- and found that they were, well, a lot like her.
Hey hey, ho ho, the matriarchy's got to go
Gloria Steinem unleashes exciting news about young feminism -- not!
In a league of their own
Even Dusty Baker told her to get a life, but one baseball fanatic and her daughter wouldn't think of missing spring training.
Mothers Who Think: Scouts' dishonor
A former member says scouting is a dangerous influence that should be kept away from impressionable young people.
Mothers Who Think: Wedding bell blues
In her first collection of poems, Deborah Garrison charts the ambivalent territory of love and work and longing.
The Spock touch
More than just a bestselling chid-care guru, the late doctor "Spock-marked" a generation with his politics.
Mothers Who Think: Worse than it ought to be
'As Good As It Gets' is more a horror film than a heartwarmer: one more pathetic male rescue fantasy about an emotionally constipated misfit who is saved by the love of a good woman.
Mothers Who Think: The Willey of our discontent
American women are as weary of the sexual policing of the '90s as they are skeptical of the president's latest accuser.
Labia envy
Ladies, are you troubled by the appearance of your genitalia? Call Dr. Alter.
Leap of faith
It took a trip to Israel to bridge the gap between a blond, blue-eyed WASP and her Jewish mother-in-law.
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