Tag: parenthood

A visit to Auschwitz makes Eliza Margarita Bates only more determined to have a baby, despite her painful chronic illness.

It wasn’t entirely Laura Lippman’s idea to become a mother in her 50s. But when it happened, she leaned in hard.

As her son finishes high school and prepares to leave for college, Michelle Cruz Gonzales looks back on his early years as a pianist and anticipates a future without the sound of his playing filling the house.

Sara Fredman thinks about the voices in her life as she raises young children and reckons with her fading father.

Kira Martin struggles through her connection – both emotional and physical – with her troubled and destructive son.

In an excerpt from her debut memoir, Stephanie Land recalls being poor, and moving with her young daughter from a homeless shelter to transitional housing.

If new parents say they don’t have intrusive thoughts about harm befalling their babies, “they’re lying.”

Doree Shafrir reflects on how Halloween changed for her after struggling with infertility.

Actor and writer Rob Delaney shares his family’s experience with every parent’s nightmare: a very sick child.

An excerpt of ‘Now My Heart is Full,’ Laura June’s memoir, about the challenges new parenthood placed on her and her husband — and their marriage.

Novelist Sorayya Khan maps her path from Islamabad to Solvay.

Shelby Vittek reflects on the bittersweet experience of watching herself be born — and her now-divorced mom and dad become parents — again and again.

During her high-risk pregnancy, driven by a longing for normalcy, Paulette Kamenecka tried out a class for parents-to-be.

Reid Doughten revises his simple equation for combining camping with parenting toddlers.

Over six seasons, Girls has not been even remotely realistic about the earnings of a freelance writer.

Every year America’s schools shut down for nearly three months—leaving families like single mother Olympia and her 6-year-old daughter Raina struggling to keep up.

In Bloomberg Businessweek, Claire Suddath reports that there are only two countries in the world that don’t have some type of legally protected, partially paid leave for working women who just had a baby: Papua New Guinea and the U.S. The result is another big gap between the haves and have-nots: The policies vary widely […]

Nathan Deuel | Friday Was the Bomb | May 2014 | 21 minutes (5,178 words)   For our latest Longreads Member Pick, we’re thrilled to share a full chapter from Friday Was the Bomb, the new book by Nathan Deuel about moving to the Middle East with his wife in 2008. Deuel has been featured […]