In October, a new “community hub” for families is opening up in Los Angeles called Loom. Loom may not be open yet,…

Midwifery care is steeped in a cisgender and heteronormative worldview. Traditionally, when a midwife offers support…

I have entered the phase of married life where some of my friends’ first marriages are beginning to fall apart.…

Among North America’s coastal elites, midwifery has become associated with finicky preferences, rigid orthodoxy, and…

Eat Pray Love was published in 2007, and ten years later its basic methodological premise—a woman travels the world…

I recently bought my son Jesse a $36 bright green stainless steel “Kleen Kanteen” water bottle. He’s had his own…

I am a graduate student in sociology, and I have a lot of reading to do, all of the time. Since I started my PhD…

I first met musician Martha Wainwright last year when her older son Arcangelo was in the same kindergarten class as…

There is a part of me that wants my kids to feel, at least in some relatively painless and abstract way, that the…

Mike Lanza, a dad and tech entrepreneur from Menlo Park, California, thinks we’re experiencing a crisis in…

It has been about three years since I stopped working in men’s lifestyle media, but during the two weeks leading up…

In the spring of 2014, I paid a woman $200 for permission to let my eight-month-old son cry himself to sleep.…

I feel for Meghann Foye, author of the new book Meternity, about a woman who fakes a pregnancy so she can have take…

Today while staring at my bargain-basement wall calendar of the majestic Rocky Mountains, I made a thrilling…

It happened every time we stopped for gas. Someone would approach, usually someone kind of old. “Great van,” they’d…

I’ll never forget a dad I saw one of the first times I ever took my toddler to a playground. As I nervously followed…

A couple of Fridays ago, I walked my older son to school and then my younger son to daycare. Then I crossed over the…

Parenting media is mostly bullshit. It’s like mainstream beauty media, only with the added gravitas of being about,…