When I got pregnant with my second child, I was nervous. Financially I hadn’t really recovered from my first child, the resulting lawsuit with the father, or the years afterward of paying off hospital bills because I didn’t have insurance for my newborn. Money wasn’t all of it though, I didn’t know if I was […]
Here’s an interesting concept via a nifty blog by Stacia L Brown on being a single mother of color in America. With the slut-shaming that many women (especially those who wind up single) are subjected to with the burdens of being “of color” in a predominantly white, heterosexist, and patriarchal culture, this should be an […]
Some more co-sleeping love for ya’ll here with this new study on how co-sleeping lowers testosterone in daddies who do co-sleep (don’t mind the somewhat male-centric lingo @livescience & thanks to Inhabitots for the tip): “…fathers who co-sleep have significantly lower levels of testosterone while sleeping, and a great decline in testosterone during waking hours […]
Charlotte Taft is the director at the Abortion Care Network. For more of her words of wisdom, check out these beautifully written articles. Silencing 50 Million Women What Do Focus on the Family, Sarah Palin, and Abortion Care Network Have in Common
“If you can’t trust me with a choice…” “…How can you trust me with a child?” I’ve always found this an interesting flaw with the anti-choice movement. If you want people to have babies so badly and believe so strongly that it is murder to terminate a pregnancy, then why wouldn’t you give mothers- especially […]
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