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Nike's labor practices have motivated a wave of youth activism, but where do these children get their ideas?
By Dawn MacKeen
May 29, 1998
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Just because he plays soccer in ballet slippers, does that make him a weirdo?
By Lisen Stromberg
May 27, 1998
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When you find yourself dancing with the man who used to be Eddie, your eighth-grade boyfriend, why do you feel 15 years old?
By Lori Leibovich
May 26, 1998
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In her new memoir, housecleaner and author Louise Rafkin dishes the dirt on her rich clients' nail clippings, pubic hair and Prozac.
By Lori Leibovich
May 22, 1998
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A new book on our cultural obsession with violence finds kids' TV and Quentin Tarantino movies inseparable from the Roman spectacles.
By Dwight Garner
May 21, 1998
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The new theory in science fair judging is not to judge. A mother wonders whether that will create a generation of more confident scientists or a bunch of praise junkies.
By Liz Gardner
May 19, 1998
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Forget grrrl power: The new feminine mystique is neurotic, self-absorbed and still boy-crazy, according to a current crop of pop-cultural heroines.
By Laura Miller
May 18, 1998
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Once exclusionary bastions of the negro elite, black social clubs for kids are making a comeback among middle-class parents who fear their chlidren are losing their roots.
By Karen Grigsby Bates
May 15, 1998
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When it comes to teaching their toddlers about sex, they really do do things differently in France
By Debra S. Ollivier
May 12, 1998
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In Nick Hornby's hilarious new novel, "About a Boy," a failed lothario hits upon an ingenious way to score -- and learns that kids complicate things in ways he never imagined
By Douglas Cruickshank
May 11, 1998
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The irrevocable moment in becoming a parent is not the moment you conceive a child; it's the moment you conceive of her.
By Barbara Jones
May 8, 1998
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Peter Kurth wonders why his sister Barbara has been put on trial by the media after the arrest of Stephen Fagan, who abducted their two daughters and lived with them under a false identity for 19 years before his recent Palm Beach arrest.
By Peter Kurth
May 7, 1998
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On Mother's
Day, a daughter finds she can't escape the painful childhood memories that
she hides from the rest of the year.
By Rose Stoll
May 6, 1998
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"Wanting A Child" collects the stories of writers whose desire to be parents came far easier than the children they longed for.
By Rob Spillman
May 5, 1998
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Parenting manuals don't tell you how to handle it when your son has a crush on you.
By Mona Gable
May 1, 1998
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My son and I grew up together, will grow old together--and saved each other.
By Tessa Souter
April 29, 1998
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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.
By Elizabeth Rapoport
April 24, 1998
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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.
By Joan Walsh
April 23, 1998
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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.
By Lori Leibovich
April 22, 1998
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By Joyce
Millman
April 21, 1998
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For the meritocratic baby boomer generation, choosing between public and private schools for one's children is a loaded decision.
By Albert Mobilio
April 20, 1998
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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.
By Jennifer Reese
April 17, 1998
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Why don't Americans talk about their lost pregnancies?
By Dayna Macy
April 15, 1998
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Working from a home office means trying to keep your professional image intact while your kids yell, "You big sucky poophead!" in the background.
By Susan McCarthy
April 14, 1998
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When a middle-class mom needs fatherly advice for her son, she turns to a gang member named Crazy Ace.
By Celeste Fremon
April 13, 1998
