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  • A counterculture childhood

    In an excerpt from her new book, the author remembers toting the Viet Cong flag as a toddler.
  • A counterculture childhood

    In an excerpt from her new book, the author remembers toting the Viet Cong flag as a toddler.
  • A masterful Machiavellian matriarch

    Former Rep. Pat Schroeder talks about her 24-year stint in Congress, sharing a chair with Ron Dellums and why Monica Lewinsky is no victim.
  • A masterful Machiavellian matriarch

    Former Rep. Pat Schroeder talks about her 24-year stint in Congress, sharing a chair with Ron Dellums and why Monica Lewinsky is no victim.
  • Cracking down

    Barbara Harris pays addicted mothers $200 not to have children -- ever again.
  • Global Baby Warming

    Our Babies, Ourselves, by anthropologist Meredith F. Small, urges us to question some of the fundamental ways Americans raise their children.
  • Mulan through the looking glass

    For young Asian-American women, Disney's new heroine Mulan is no mirror image, but at least she casts back a reflection.
  • Boho/professional goddess seeks modern man

    After not dating for more than a decade, a 30-something mother places a personals ad -- and faces date 17.
  • Mommie Dearest in drag

    Why would Joan Crawford's daughter embrace the gay cult that thinks her child abuse, detailed in her memoir 'Mommie Dearest,' is one big campy joke?
  • Cracking down

    Barbara Harris pays addicted mothers $200 not to have children -- ever again.
  • Zorro vs. Tarzana

    How the masked avenger taught a white kid from the suburbs that California's past -- and its present -- was older, darker and more soulful than he had ever dreamed.
  • We've come a long way, baby

    My mother isn't the only one bound to her addiction: Smoking is what makes her truly my mother.
  • Dear bridal party

    A bride-from-hell's orders on what to wear, how to act and what to think.
  • Mothers who think too much

    Still convinced that the time you forgot to hold your breath while pumping gas will cause irreparable damage to your unborn child?
  • Turning the tables on Terry Gross

    Salon gets personal with NPR's Maestro of conversation.
  • 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.
  • Don't call me Mom

    Why do people get all creeped out that my children call me by my first name?
  • Are we there yet?

    What had I left in the Florida of my childhood vacations that I wanted my children to find?
  • Ballad of a bohemian childhood

    How a child who was almost named Windowsill, and was forbidden the pleasures of Oreos has come to appreciate his unconventional parents.
  • How to ruin your kid's summer vacation

    If your children could tell you what they really want to do for vacation, you might find out that your meticulous plans to keep them occupied this summer is all for naught.
  • Someone to watch over me

    For one little boy whose babyhood was almost lost in a crowded Russian orphanage, it's not the educational toys and developmental stimuli that matter most.
  • Living under the knife

    Steven Levenkron's book "Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation" casts an eye on the emotional pains behind a dark adolescent practice.
  • African Awakening

    Senegal turns against the tyranny of female genital mutilation.
  • Class warfare

    In the second of two articles, a teacher who was on the front lines describes how a California high school became a battleground in the struggle over what America's students should be taught about homosexuality.
  • The showdown at San Leandro High

    A battle between parents and gay-rights advocates may be a preview of the country's next great culture war.
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