So when I imagined having kids, it was always plural. If I was lucky enough to have one child, I knew I wanted to try to have ...

You could almost forget that the "cycle" we're trying to break here is the cycle of abuse. Cycle-breaking is the idea that we ...

Climate change isn’t going to happen, it’s happening — not to someone else, but to me and my young children, now.

When Hurricane Milton made landfall along Florida's Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 9, hospitals were hunkered down statewide. Even those on the East Coast ...

Last year, a letter in the medical journal Pediatrics argued that the frightening decline in mental health among American kids can be partly explained by a lack of independent play. When kids don ...

This past Christmas, my husband and son and I jammed our car with Hello Fresh bags stuffed with presents and drove, as we always do, from Brooklyn to Indiana to spend the holiday with my family.

My 7-year-old is a CrossFit devotee from afar. He freezes every time we pass the one on our block to stare at the biggest muscles engaged in the most extreme act of strength training. At home, he ...

I had a miscarriage a month into my first pregnancy, and like most women, I had no idea how to talk about it at work. I mean, really, I had no idea how to talk about it anywhere, or not without ...

When I was pregnant with my first baby, I enrolled us in the multi-evening childbirth education course offered by our HMO, where my husband and I sat in a little circle with other couples and took ...

First it was the 4 th of July. Then Halloween was a wash, as was Thanksgiving. But come on now, Christmas, too? It seems like almost every family reunion in 2020 has been dashed due to Covid-19.

Elizabeth*, 32, has been taking stimulants since the third grade. During her first pregnancy in 2020, her doctor told her she had to stop taking her medication, and she struggled, but felt she had ...