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who needs dad?
An unsavory stew
'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.
My parents went to Pagan New Year and all I got was this dumb negative energy stone
Despite your fantasies of human sacrifices and blood-curdling wails, Halloween with real witches and pagans is probably tamer than you think.
Junk mail
It's more honest about your family's finances than you are
Welfare Cinderella
How I went from rags to riches to reality in just one year.
bad girl
A teenager struggles to stay human in the clutches of a system that despises her.
An unfinished life
After his senseless death in Somalia, Dan Eldon's mother created a memorial out of his remarkable journals.
For girls only
With love and irritation, a professor remembers the books she grew up with -- and away from.
Teenage Breast Management
An excerpt from "The Body Project, and Intimate History of American Girls" by Joan Jacobs Brumberg.
Of lye soap and frilly pink dresses
An Apache woman's memoir recalls a brutal year in an Indian orphanage.
Expecting the worst
With almost 6 million copies in print, 'What to Expect When You're Expecting' is one of the nation's top-selling pregnancy guides. By the time my daughter was born, I actively detested it.
Paper-clothed strangers
Holding a stranger's hand during an abortion is an unforgetable experience.
Mom's a head-banger but her daughter just keeps on truckin'.
mental hell
How the American health-care system killed a 13-year-old girl.
School is out
The important thing about home schooling isn't getting away from school. It's getting back into your home.
A parent's worst nightmare
A Colorado child-abuse case highlights the controversial and misunderstood condition of reactive attachment disorder.
Got milk?
There's nothing like a breast pump to get you in touch with your bovine side.
Creme Booblee
Serve up a recipe for disaster
death of a fat girl
Is Christina Corrigan's mother on trial for neglect -- or for having an obese child?
New controversy over sudden infant death syndrome
Two forthcoming studies suggest that more cases may be due to parental abuse than previously thought.
Not alone anymore
The Internet allows disabled people and their loved ones to find resources -- and community.
Temporary god
Even a mother's love can be replaced.
creating a life
Women writers talk about motherhood, ambition, taking chances and making time for both kids and work.
1 week until college
A daughter's surly behavior is a symptom of something even more painful.
vive la kiddie pool
In this first of an occasional series of dispatches by an expatriate mom, the author belly-flops into a cultural gulf at her Parisian swimming pool.
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