Demean In: Are Women Sabotaging Me From Leaning In?

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Men have never questioned MTV star Susie Meister’s career goals, but plenty of other women have.

Are Fathers As Free to Leave Their Careers As Moms?

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Are men more vulnerable to burn out and career dissatisfaction without a biological imperative to slow down and reassess?

It’s Just Sex, Dammit!

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Can we allow ourselves to admit that sex just isn’t as important as we make it out to be?

The Meister Piece: Dixie Chick and Courtyard Hound Emily Robison

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Former MTV “Road Rules” star Susie Meister talks with Dixie Chick Emily Robison about music and motherhood.

My Ex is an Amazing Father, Which is Why The Kids Live With Him

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Te-Erika Patterson’s boys are doing great in their father’s care, and are prospering in ways that she would not even know how to initiate.

Iris: The Story of a Polio Mother

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The story of a boy from Hardscrabble, Illinois, and his courageous mother.

The Meister Piece with Access Hollywood Host and MTV Road Rules Star Kit Hoover

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Susie Meister talks with fellow Road Rules alumna and current Access Hollywood host Kit Hoover about reality TV, motherhood, and life in tinseltown.

Why Do Men Cheat?

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Biology explains why men stray, but reason and affection hold the keys to happy, monogamous marriages between women and men.

20 Reasons Dads Matter

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Lisa Belkin, arguably the best known parenting blogger, left dads out of her list of parenting trends. Here’s why that is wrong.

Murder, Motherhood, and the Media: Reflections on a Feeding Frenzy

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In the wake of a double homicide, knee-jerk opinion blames mothers and completely erases fathers.

Prison Reporting and a Bald Double Standard

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Even the way prison statistics are reported betrays ugly and outdated gender stereotypes.

Choosing Not to Circumcise

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An activist, psychotherapist, and mother on the rationale behind her decision.

Five Things I Didn’t Know About My Body

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They say female sexuality is mysterious. Olivia Davis explores some things about female sexuality and anatomy that even she didn’t know.

Walter

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 “What did it mean to be a person in this world?” 3-year-old Walter asks himself somewhere in his subconscious in this weekend’s brilliant story by Sarah Tourjee. Isn’t that the question we’re all asking? As a parent, and as a person, this story seemed necessary to me, in its struggle to figure out what one’s place [...]

The Gift of Sensitivity

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MJ Kelly learned that it’s easy to devalue emotional sensitivity, until you see it in your child’s eyes.

“As a mother to a 4 year old boy, I give more attention to the ideas in this article than ever before.”

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