Millennial family values By Stephanie Coontz
The legislators who are "voting their conscience" have been consistently
screwing the future for our children
(12/24/98)
Forever young By Joan Walsh
In defense of My Twinn: Why the doll that horrifies parents appeals to children
(12/22/98)
Marriage among the mullahs By Cynthia Joyce
Marriage among the mullahs: The directors of "Divorce Iranian Style" speak out about unhappy marriages, Islamic law and the rights of women
(12/16/98)
The prisoner of Pennsylvania Avenue By Margaret Talbot
The many ordeals of Hillary Clinton should make us ask: Is it time to retire the concept of the first lady?
(12/14/98)
Imaginary friend By Andrea Cooper
Where does inventiveness end and madness begin?
(12/09/98)
Jews for Jesus By Danny Miller
For my Holy Spirit-possessed sixth-grade teacher, it wasn't enough to sing the songs for our school's Christmas parade, we had to feel them
(12/07/98)
Kids just want to have fun By Anne Morrow Sampson
Why do the toys I bought my kids to improve their hand-eye
coordination and spatial dexterity just sit in the closet?
(12/02/98)
The men's room By Diane Lore
There's no rest for parents weary of making the decision whether to
send their kids into public bathrooms
(12/01/98)
Go with the flow By Jenn Shreve
A small, vocal group of women wants you to toss out your pads, tampons and liners and go -- no joke -- reusable
(11/30/98)
Turkey fry By Jennifer Reese
An old lover taught me the sexiest type of Thanksgiving cooking and how to do something sacrilegious and preposterous to a national symbol
(11/24/98)
Faraway, so close By Debra Gwartney
Coming home causes my oldest daughter to withdraw into corners,
turn her face, and back up toward the door until she can run away again
(11/23/98)
Presidential paws
"Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets" by Hillary Rodham Clinton: what kids want to know about Buddy and Socks
(11/18/98)
Is one enough?
By Vivienne Walt
Will China's generation without siblings break away from the one-child rule?
(11/11/98)
The last campaign By Erin Aubry
My father was the kind of upright politician who did thankless, largely unquantifiable good works. Unfortunately, the electorate didn't give a damn
(11/09/98)
Why can't a woman be more like a chair? By Debra S. Ollivier
And now, from the Paris runways, orthopedic-bondage jewelry, mutant-vegetable heads and furniture chic
(11/06/98)
Worse sex can be yours -- tonight! By Holly Smith
Watching cellulite-laden "real people" on better-sex videos is a sure ticket to getting the erotic heaves
(11/03/98)
Foreign films for kids? By Charles Taylor
Dispelling the notion that they are strange, arty and incomprehensible is the best reason to introduce them to your children
(11/02/98)
The mother of all elections
By Lori Leibovich
Can the favorite daughter of the Christian right knock off the feminist senator in tennis shoes?
(10/28/98)
Circumcision in America, Part 2 By Debra S. Ollivier
Despite medical and religious debunking, long-standing cultural biases keep the practice of circumcision alive
(10/27/98)
Circumcision in America By Debra S. Ollivier
How did a medically pointless procedure become a routine practice performed on a majority of American males?
(10/26/98)
Mommy's little accessory By Dayna Macy
Jo Copeland designed glamorous couture clothes for the rich and famous. But while she was an extraordinary designer, she was a disaster as a mother
(10/21/98)
The worst trip ever By Susan McCarthy
A sweaty cross-country trek in a 1937 Plymouth
with two cranky siblings, a kangaroo rat in a box and a pogo stick turns into family legend
(10/20/98)
Beautiful Dreamer By Lisa Kleinman
Babies No. 1 and 2 had to suffer through less-than-perfect strollers. But baby No. 3 will have the ideal ride -- that is, if there is a baby No. 3
(10/19/98)
Tale of a sky-blue dress By Thylias Moss
School girl: I thought all girls -- regardless of color -- were heading toward vast opportunities. Then I learned the truth
(10/12/98)
Spanking: A black mother's view By Karen Grigsby Bates
The survival legacy of slavery taught blacks to spank more than whites -- and that's why you don't see as many black kids having public tantrums
(10/07/98)
To spank or not to spank By Albert Mobilio
A husband from the working class squares off with his gently bred wife
(10/07/98)
Princess Monica By Lori Leibovich
Why the Starr Report and the Tripp tapes make Jewish women cringe
(10/06/98)
Bed rest sucks By Kristin Wiederholt
Excessive vomiting, boredom and the other joys of bed rest
(10/05/98)
Her siren thong
By Shelley Youngblut
Eve had her apple. Monica had her thong
(09/29/98)
Uh-oh, Spaghettios By Danny Miller
A single dad with a junk food past develops an obsession with health food
(09/28/98)
Something to declare By Dwight Garner
Novelist Julia Alvarez talks about moving to America, her relationship with her family and the rituals that keep her a focused writer
(09/25/98)
Conception by deception By Tracy Quan
Why do women get away with "accidentally" getting pregnant -- when if a man tried to pull the same manipulative stunt, he'd be Bobbitted?
(09/23/98)
First pick by proxy
By Carol Snow
A toddler fulfills her mother's gym class dreams
(09/22/98)
Who needs experts? Part Two
By Beth Kephart
"The Nurture Assumption": A controversial book makes headlines, not sense
(09/18/98)
In defense of parenthood
By Katie Allison Granju
A controversial and deeply flawed new book argues that no matter how you parent, junior might still turn out to be the next Charles Manson
(09/17/98)
Monica's betrayal By Jenn Shreve
When Monica Lewinsky told more than all, she sold her man down the river -- and violated the adulterer's code of honor
(09/09/98)
Back-to-school blues
By Sandi Kahn Shelton
If school is so good for your kids, why does it make you look so bad?
(09/08/98)
Red Square
By Janis Cooke Newman
What will I tell my son about the cold, strange city where he was born?
(09/04/98)
Back to the future
By Kate Moses
Salon's favorite back to school stories
(09/03/98)
Litter Mate By Clea Simon
Can lovers truly share a cat?
(09/02/98)
Slaves to the system By Nina Siegel
For vast numbers of women behind bars, prison is a hell of sexual terror
(09/01/98)
Breathing lessons By Arthur Allen
Childhood asthma is one of the most insidious, endemic afflictions in the black community. Why is conquering it so difficult?
(08/31/98)
I want you so bad By Carol Lloyd
Now that our president has confessed to adultery, will the American people follow him to the pillory?
(08/26/98)
The heat is on
By Lisa Moskowitz
Soothe your savage summer beast
(08/25/98)
Black like (white me) Reviewed by Janet McDonald
"A Hope in the Unseen" tells the story of an inner-city black kid at Brown -- through the eyes of a white author who tries to channel him
(08/24/98)
A melody of his own making By Beth Kephart
My child needs me too much
(08/21/98)
An affair to remember
By Nell Bernstein
President Clinton is trying desperately to salvage his reputation. Monica Lewinsky has lost hers forever
(08/20/98)
First family on the couch
By Lori Leibovich
Therapists say President Clinton's psychological problems run deep -- and Hillary's and Chelsea's are just beginning
(08/20/98)
Clinton's silvery web of words By Katie Roiphe
Once again, the president teased us and left us hanging
(08/19/98)
No baby on board By Pagan Kennedy
A non-parent explains how being an environmentalist, and a brush with her own mortality, made her decide not to become a mom
(08/17/98)
Getting wise to "Babywise"
By Katie Allison Granju
Does God want your baby to cry?
(08/06/98)
One step at a time
By Lori Leibovich
Why some stepfamilies flourish and others fail
(08/04/98)
Crossing borders
By Rigoberta Menchu
The famed Mayan activist whose mother and brother were tortured and killed reflects on the family -- and village -- she lost in Guatemala
(08/03/98)
Lusting after "Lolita
By Justine Brown
A lifelong affair with "Lolita"
(07/31/98)
Reality bites
By Karen Grigsby Bates
By making the irrelevant Mike Tyson case a big PR issue, NOW has
demonstrated once again that it is run by imperious and out-of-touch white women
(07/30/98)
The Merry Recluse By Caroline Knapp
A single woman chooses a life of solitude in the Land of We
(07/27/98)
Mulatto millennium By Danzy Senna
Since when did being the daughter of a Wasp and a black-Mexican become cool?
(07/24/98)
The face of Zorro By Luis Valdez
For 80 years, Zorro has been the shining star of a mythical California,
set in a time and place that never existed. In "The Mask of Zorro," he
still is.
(07/22/98)
Zorro vs. Tarzana By Stephen Talbot
How the masked avenger taught a white kid from the suburbs that California's past -- and its present -- was older, darker and more soulful than he had ever dreamed
(07/22/98)
Censorship and sensibility
By Inda Schaenen
Should kids be able to read anything they want?
(07/17/98)
Slice of life By Maurine Shores
Memories of a cake that tasted like summer
(07/16/98)
A counterculture childhood By Lisa Michaels
In an excerpt from her new book, the author remembers being 3 years old and waving a Vietcong flag
(07/15/98)
A masterful Machiavellian matriarch By Lesley Gold
Former Rep. Pat Schroeder talks about her 24-year stint in Congress, sharing a chair with Ron Dellums and why Monica Lewinsky is no victim
(07/13/98)
Cracking down By Jeff Stryker
Barbara Harris pays addicted mothers $200 not to have children -- ever again
(07/10/98)
Global baby warming By Constance Matthiessen
The anthropological "Our Babies, Ourselves" urges us to question some of the fundamental ways Americans raise their children
(07/08/98)
Mulan through the looking glass By Katherine Kim
For young Asian-American women, Mulan is no mirror image, but at least she casts back a reflection
(07/07/98)
Boho/professional goddess seeks modern man By Nicki Blake
A personal ad turns up a purple-haired sweetie
(07/03/98)
Mommie Dearest in drag By Paul Festa
Why would Joan Crawford's daughter embrace the gay cult that thinks her childhood abuse is one big campy joke?
(07/01/98)
We've come a long way, baby By Peter Bebergal
My mother isn't the only one bound to her addiction -- smoking is what makes her truly my mother
(06/29/98)
Dear bridal party
A bride from hell's orders on what to wear, how to act and what to think
(06/26/98)
Mothers who think too much By Anne S. Lewis
Will breathing while pumping gas cause irreparable damage to your unborn child?
(06/24/98)
Turning the tables on Terry Gross By Lori Leibovich
Salon gets personal with NPR's maestro of conversation
(06/22/98)
Don't complain. Don't explain. By Gina Hyams
The final days of a difficult father
(06/19/98)
Don't call me Mom By Susan McCarthy
Why I'm Susan to my kids
(06/18/98)
Are we there yet? By Ann Hood
What had I left in the Florida of my childhood vacations that I wanted my children to find?
(06/17/98)
Ballad of a bohemian childhood By Maccabee Montandon
Other kids ate Fritos while I munched macrobiotic chips
(06/15/98)
How to ruin your kid's summer vacation By Kate Moses
Instead of schlepping your kid off to camp, let them do nothing
(06/09/98)
Someone to watch over me By Janis Cooke Newman
Sentenced to a lifetime of summer school? Babyhood in a Russian orphanage
(06/08/98)
Living under the knife
By Fiona Morgan
Steven Levenkron's book "Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming
Self-Mutilation" casts an eye on the emotional pains behind a dark
adolescent practice
(06/05/98)
African awakening By Vivienne Walt
Senegal turns against the tyranny of female mutilation
(06/03/98)
Class warfare By Ira Eisenberg
How a California high school became a battleground in the struggle over what America's students should be taught about homosexuality
(06/02/98)
The showdown at San Leandro High By Ira Eisenberg
A battle between parents and gay-rights advocates may be a preview of the country's next great culture war
(06/01/98)
Infant revolution By Dawn MacKeen
The children who are giving Nike a dressing down
(05/29/98)
My son, the cross-dresser By Lisen Stromberg
Why are tomboys cute but "janegirls" weird?
(05/27/98)
Back to my future By Lori Leibovich
Dancing cheek to cheek with your high school self
(05/26/98)
Coming clean about her trashy life By Lori Leibovich
In "Other People's Dirt," a housekeeper dishes about her dirty work
(05/22/98)
Violence or entertainment? By Dwight Garner
A new book on our cultural obsession with violence finds kids' TV and Quentin Tarantino movies inseparable from the Roman spectacles
(05/21/98)
Drowning in fairness By Liz Gardner
Does holding back valid criticism create more confident children or praise junkies?
(05/19/98)
Where the gals are By Laura Miller
Forget grrrl power: The new feminine mystique is neurotic, self-absorbed and still boy-crazy, according to a current crop of pop-cultural heroines
(05/18/98)
Young, black and too white By Karen Grigsby Bates
Social clubs for black children are making a comeback among middle-class parents who fear their kids are losing their roots
(05/15/98)
Les birds et les bees By Debra S. Ollivier
When it comes to teaching their toddlers about sex, they really DO do things differently in France
(05/12/98)
The single-mom scam By Douglas Cruickshank
"About a Boy" with a yen for single moms
(05/11/98)
Heedless Love By Barbara Jones
Why parenting doesn't start at conception
(05/08/98)
Kidnapped By Peter Kurth
My sister's little girls were stolen 19 years ago by her ex-husband. So why is the media putting her on trial?
(05/07/98)
Thinking of you By Rose Stoll
Among the glittery cards on the rack, where are the sentiments for the mother who could not protect her child?
(05/06/98)
Missing children By Rob Spillman
Wanting a Child: When the desire to be parents comes easier than the children
(05/05/98)
Sex and the 7-year-old boy By Mona Gable
How to deal with it when your 7-year-old begins making the moves on you
(05/01/98)
Confessions of a teenage mom By Tessa Souter
My son and I grew up together, will grow old together -- and saved each other
(04/29/98)
How many working fathers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? By Elizabeth Rapoport
Dad helps out? Sure. Try this test
(04/24/98)
America's war against children By Joan Walsh
Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West have written a call-to-arms for American parents. But their big-tent strategy leaves us stranded at the front
(04/23/98)
The happy prisoner By Lori Leibovich
Because of Whitewater and Kenneth Starr, she may not be seeing the outside world for the next several years, but Susan McDougal regrets almost nothing
(04/22/98)
In his life, he loved her more: Linda McCartney, 1941-1998
By Joyce Millman
The lovely Linda: Learning to respect McCartney's muse
(04/21/98)
Paving the road to Yale -- or Palookaville
By Albert Mobilio
Public vs. private school?
(04/20/98)
Scenes from a Shake-'N-Bake life By Jennifer Reese
The surprise of "The Lunch-Box Chronicles" is that former bad girl Marion Winik is so blissed out on momhood she makes Erma Bombeck seem cynical
(04/17/98)
Unspeakable losses By Dayna Macy
Why are Americans so afraid to talk about their lost pregnancies?
(04/15/98)
Can you hold? I've got sobbing on Line 2 By Susan McCarthy
Working at home means trying to sound professional on the phone while your kids yell, "You big sucky poophead!" in the background
(04/14/98)
Boys without men By Celeste Fremon
When a middle-class mom needs fatherly advice for her son, she turns to a gang member named Crazy Ace
(04/13/98)
Peep show By Kate Moses
A passion for Peeps led to my loss of innocence
(04/10/98)
Dear Daughter: Go to jail. Love, Mom By Lori Leibovich and Dawn MacKeen
Pro-family groups unfazed by subpoenaing of Monica's mom
(04/08/98)
The fun police By Diane Lore
Being your kid's killjoy isn't as fun as it's cracked up to be
(04/06/98)
Women beware women By Katie Roiphe
Our ongoing national catfight has revealed an unpleasant truth obscured by the smarmy rhetoric of "sisterhood": Women have always betrayed each other
(04/03/98)
Strait-laced sisters By Lori Leibovich
Liberal journalist Elinor Burkett met the enemy -- conservative women -- and found that they were, well, a lot like her
(04/01/98)
Hey hey, ho ho, the matriarchy's got to go By Lori Leibovich
Gloria Steinem unleashes exciting news about young feminism not!
(03/27/98)
In a league of their own By Joan Walsh
Even Dusty Baker told her to get a life, but one baseball fanatic and her daughter wouldn't think of missing spring training
(03/26/98)
Scout's Dishonor By Andrew O'Hehir
A former member says scouting is a dangerous influence that should be kept away from impressionable young people
(03/25/98)
Wedding bell blues By Deborah Garrison
In her first collection of poems, the author charts the ambivalent territory of love and work and longing
(03/24/98)
The Spock touch By Dwight Garner
The late good Dr. Spock, "political Rip van Winkle"
(03/23/98)
Worse than it ought to be By Sara Nelson
"As Good As It Gets" is just one more pathetic male rescue fantasy
(03/20/98)
The Willey of our discontent By Katie Roiphe
American women are as weary of the sexual policing of the '90s
as they are skeptical of the president's latest accuser
(03/19/98)
Labia envy By Louisa Kamps
Troubled by the appearance of your genitalia? Call Dr. Alter
(03/16/98)
Leap of faith By Jennifer New
Getting to the Promised Land with my mother-in-law
(03/13/98)
The high priestess of free love By Suzette Lalime
Victoria Woodhull, prostitute and presidential candidate
(03/12/98)
Vanity, thy name is pukestain
By Carol Snow
Lessons of a puking child
(03/09/98)
The price of eggs in America By Cynthia
Joyce
The growing controversy over egg donorship poses the tricky
question: Which comes first, the donor or the egg?
(03/05/98)
The silence is deafening By Jonathan Broder
Anne Northup asks why her Democratic sisters are letting President Clinton off the hook
(03/03/98)
Sexual harassment law: Relax and try to enjoy it
By Laura Green
Despite its occasional excesses, sexual harassment law has improved the workplace
(03/03/98)
Giving the experts the Big Slammu By Beth Levine
No rest for the expert weary
(03/02/98)
Slaves in the family By Maryanne Vollers
A white man's odyssey into his clan's secret history is a searing look at the most shameful event in America's past.
(02/27/98)
Wise women By Jonathan Broder
Three women cross the Israeli-Palestinian divide
(02/26/98)
Baby hunger By Heather Chaplin
The unexpected ticking of my biological clock
(02/23/98)
Dreams of Bill By Camille Peri
Monica wasn't the only woman to dream of sleeping with the president. An excerpt from "Dreams of Bill," by Julian Anderson-Miller and Bruce Joshua Miller
(02/20/98)
Addicted to day care By Phaedra Hise
If it takes a village and you don't have one, a good child-care provider may be just what you need
(02/17/98)
Losing it By Lori Leibovich
No lover but the first will ever know me as both a child and a woman
(02/13/98)
Why I miss those loathsome "Barney" kids By Carol Snow
Unlike our own children, we could turn them off when they got really
obnoxious
(02/10/98)
Chewing the fat with the girls By Elizabeth Rapoport
The Duchess of Pork and the Dershowitz of dieting serve up this season's most fascinating diet books
(02/09/98)
The good father By Kate Moses
Ted Hughes' "Birthday Letters" makes it clear, once and for all, whom his silence has been protecting all these years -- his children
(02/06/98)
Bitter fame By Jay Parini
"Birthday Letters" is a huge gift to readers that has cost Ted Hughes
dearly
(02/06/98)
City of Light (and laundry) By Debra Ollivier
Giving a new meaning to French laundry
(02/03/98)
A mom's guide to college admissions By Teri Rosen
A mom survives college application hell
(01/30/98)
Pool of memories By Grayson Hurst Daughters
A granddaughter reflects on the pain of getting old and missing the grandmother who didn't
(01/29/98)
"Mama, you're Old Spice!" By Ariel Gore
Spice Girls, aka the anti-Christ
(01/27/98)
Femmes fatale by Margaret Talbot
Are women more violent than men?
(01/26/98)
Can this marriage be saved? By Camille Peri and Lori Leibovich
bell hooks, Lillian
Rubin and Clinton biographers analyze the First Couple
(01/23/98)
"NYPD Blue" in a family way By Joyce
Millman
What started out as a cop show has become a meditation on the
challenges, nightmares and blessings of parenthood
(01/20/98)
Nursing the Muse By Lori Leibovich
Poetry is a matter of life and death to Belle Waring
(01/16/98)
From liposuction to labiaplasty By Lori Leibovich
American women are getting nipped, tucked and sucked in record numbers. What does it mean for feminism?
(01/14/98)
Face-off By Anne Levine
What do you do when your mother won't let you see her grow old?
(01/13/98)
The Forgiven Part 2 By Michelle Goldberg
What do you call someone who befriends the man who tortured, raped, killed and cannibalized her daughter? Crazy? Or a saint?
(01/08/98)
The Forgiven: Part one of a two-part series By Michelle Goldberg
Who would befriend such savage murderers? The victims' parents did.
(01/07/98)
Cyberspace: The final dating frontier By Eve Glicksman
A cyber romantic discovers that the Web can bring doctors, bankers, engineers and old college boyfriends to your door
(01/05/98)
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