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  • Motherhood: What Women Really Want (and Many Aren’t Getting)

    Motherhood: What Women Really Want (and Many Aren’t Getting)0

    I recently ran across an ABC News article by Jessica Mendoza, a mother of two. As an analyst for ESPN, Mendoza has a pretty high-profile, demanding job to balance with her role as a mother. Yet in spite of these demands, Mendoza decided to add something else to her plate a few years ago: homeschooling.

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  • Motherhood: The Ideal vs Reality

    Motherhood: The Ideal vs Reality0

    When I was pregnant, my husband gifted me with a book called “No more perfect moms”. While I am by no means a perfectionist, he knew that I would have high expectations of myself as a mother – basically that I was subconsciously assuming that I would be able to slot in the whole ‘having

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  • Mother Scolded by School for Slice of Cake in Child’s Lunch

    Mother Scolded by School for Slice of Cake in Child’s Lunch16

    My parents always took the teacher’s side. I grew up attending public schools in the Chicagoland area and I can count on two fingers the number of times (out of hundreds of opportunities) that my Mom and Dad thought a teacher had gone too far. Today, by contrast, teachers routinely face obnoxious, know-it-all parents who

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  • Mother of Dead Trans Teen Seeks to Create a Child to Remember Him By

    Mother of Dead Trans Teen Seeks to Create a Child to Remember Him By0

    For the latest episode in the Reproductive Revolution, we turn to Scotland. A 16-year-old transgender girl, Ellie Anderson, died last month of “unascertained” causes, not long after commencing hormone therapy to enable him to become her. We mustn’t ignore the sorrow of Ellie’s mother or the sadness of an early death. But asking what constitutes

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  • Mother of 3 Rips Franken for Elitist Comments on Education

    Mother of 3 Rips Franken for Elitist Comments on Education0

    As we know, the legislators in Congress are supposed to represent all of us, the Joe Averages in the streets and lanes of the nation. Our legislators know this too – or at least they know how to give lip service to the idea. In all likelihood, it is this mentality of needing to represent

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  • Mother Jones: Only 4 Mass Shootings this Year

    Mother Jones: Only 4 Mass Shootings this Year0

    No doubt, you’ve seen a few headlines like this example from The Washington Post: In a rather interesting opinion piece in The New York Times, Mark Follman, an editor at Mother Jones, throws some cold water on the claim that there have been more mass-shootings this year than actual days of the year. Frankly, it’s

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