Below are the best articles we could find on Motherhood and belonging.
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Through studies of fetal DNA, researchers are revealing how a child can shape a mom’s heart and mind—literally
Motherhood is an identity that calls for women to forgo belonging in their romantic relationships, professional aspirations, and even the public sphere in exchange for isolation and disconnection peppered with private praise drowned out by public critique and social exclusion.
How did I picture us all living together in that house? I didn’t. I was like someone who shows up a bridge tournament and says, “Oh. I didn’t know we’d be playing cards.”
Worldwide, mothers are overworked, underpaid, often lonely and made to feel guilty about everything from epidurals to bottle feeding. Fixing this is the unfinished work of feminism.
Motherhood is supposed to be all about love and joy. So why do so many moms feel so bad?
“Black motherhood has always been and continues to be a beautifully divine, liberating, and revolutionary act.”
At a glance, America’s shortage of adoptable babies may seem like a problem. But is adoption meant to provide babies for families, or families for babies?
“It’s really empowering for women to have language, because then they can talk about what they’re feeling.” Without that language, it’s easy to feel lost.
You can find plenty of practical information out there about pregnancy and parenting, but what about the emotional rollercoaster and identity shift that occurs for many women and their partners when they have a child?
Finagling where to spend a holiday and which traditions to meld together as a couple becomes more complicated when children arrive. But adding another layer of complexity? When two people practice different faiths—or disagree about a higher power existing at all.
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