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Tully

2018

A struggling mother of three forms an unexpected bond with the night nanny hired to help with her newborn baby.

95 min

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What Becoming a Parent Really Does to Your Happiness

Research has found that having children is terrible for quality of life—but the truth about what parenthood means for happiness is a lot more complicated.

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Paul Bloom
2021
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On Trans Motherhood, and My Reality of Never Having Biological Children

“Maybe instead of biology, I should be cursing the culture that taught me I’m less of a woman because I can’t have children.”

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Mey Rude
2018
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23:28

Love, No Matter What | Andrew Solomon

What is it like to raise a child who’s different from you in some fundamental way (like a prodigy, or a differently abled kid, or a criminal)? In this quietly moving talk, writer Andrew Solomon shares what he learned from talking to dozens of parents—asking them: What’s the line between...

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Andrew Solomon
2013
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12:14

15 Things You Didn’t Know about Being a Lesbian Mom

In this 15 Things You Didn’t Know About Being a Lesbian Mom video, we'll try to answer the following questions: What to know about being a lesbian mom? Why Being a mother is so special? What is it like to have 2 moms? What it means to be a good mom? What it means to become a mother? What is...

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2020
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She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood

After ten years of talking about having children, two years of trying (and failing) to conceive, and one shot of donor sperm for her partner, Amie Miller was about to become a mother. Or something like that. Over the next nine months, as her partner became the biological mom-to-be, Miller became . .

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Amie Klempnauer Miller
2011
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Can There Really Be Two Moms?

A lesbian mother grapples with the pain of a child favoring the mother who gave birth to her.

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Stephanie Fairyington
2018
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How Do I React When Strangers Ask Questions About Our Kids?

My wife and I have two children in elementary school. Other parents often ask personal questions about how our family was formed, such as whether we adopted or used a sperm bank, who carried our children, who the real mom is, etc.

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Steven Petrow
2014
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When You're the Mum Who Didn't Carry the Baby: a lesbian parent opens up

Lucy Fry was plagued with a multitude of worries about being a non-biological mum. Now that her and her wife's son is almost two, her fears have diminished.

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Lucy Fry
2019
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10 Things I Learned As A Lesbian Mom

Being a mom for a year now has been such a crazy experience. Nobody can prepare you. It’s exhausting! Like really exhausting. But ultimately, I’d never change a thing about choosing to be a parent and choosing how we are raising Thea (co-sleeping, no pacifier, no bottle, etc.).

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Brit Sharon
2019
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5 Ways It’s Hard to Be a Lesbian Mother

Here are five ways it’s hard to be a lesbian mother…

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Charisse Oates
2016
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