Baby pictures usually invoke warm fuzzy feelings, which is part of the reason why people flock to newsstands when a celebrity baby is on the cover of a magazine. Between baby bumps, Suri Cruise’s fashions and the whole Jolie-Pitt clan people can’t seem to get enough of famous people’s children. This is why the paparazzi [...]
Roughly 15 New York City childcare centers are scheduled to close as of July 10th. On April 21st, thousands of parents and advocates marched across the Brooklyn Bridge in protest. NYC officials claim that the areas where the closings will take place are no longer in need of as many services for low-income families. However, [...]
Every generation worries about the upbringing of the next. Many times this includes criticizing the younger generations’ way of dressing. In the 60s it was long hair and bellbottoms. In the 90s the midriff ruled. Now parents are dealing with what their children are wearing at an even younger age. Apparently, baby heels are all [...]
Last week, my kid and I decided to catch a matinee of James Cameron’s much anticipated Avatar. The trailers made it look interesting, and I really loved his last big hit (Titanic). As an added bonus, it looked like a good bet for entertaining someone of the 16 year-old techno-geek set. I figured I’d be [...]
Most of us acknowledge women face quite a bit of pressure to reproduce whether from family, friends, community or network sitcoms. However, I didn’t realize that many mothers are facing expectations to reproduce, reproduce, reproduce and reproduce. Okay, maybe I could have stopped at the second or third reproduce, but stopping at one just isn’t [...]
This story is unbelievable. Mary Martinez was nursing her 4-week-old baby during a shopping trip at a Michigan mall when she was singled out and shamed for breast feeding her newborn baby. According to this particular Target, breast-feeding-boobies are nothing more than a weapon of mass destruction. Via Broadsheet,
Thanksgiving is upon us and once again mothers and wives are being targeted as overbearing naggers. Despite the fact that women perform most of the tasks involved in throwing a holiday celebration, women are seen as the enemy. One New York Times article, Food, Kin and Tension at Thanksgiving, described a variety of family members that [...]
A recent article in the New York Times has sent off a conversation about the latest in parenting problems. The question that is being posed: Is Shouting the New Spanking? Apparently, it is the new spanking and it is a big issue for today’s parents, who apparently are the “generation that yells.” Most articles that [...]
It’s pretty common in western society to demonize other countries for practices that we falsely presume to be happening only in far away places. Circumcision is one of those practices. Western media focuses majority of its attention, in the context of circumcision, on “oppressed” women in Africa. Very little do we ever hear about female [...]
The importance recognizing gay rights in regards to parenting cannot be under stated. There are foster children that deserve loving homes and potential LGBT parents that have the love and resources to provide those children homes. Also, many custody issues arise when LGBT non-biological parents aren’t given legal parental status. These issues cost taxpayers’ money [...]
