Family

An Ode to the Fathers in My Life 1
- Culture, Family, Featured, MomThink
- June 13, 2024
Father’s Day is a day that brings up a full spectrum of feeling for me. This is true for several reasons: One, my relationship with my own father was complicated. Two, I’ve had many father figures who filled in where my father left a void: two grandfathers, a father-in-law, a stepfather, and, of course, my
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What ’70s Kids Did That Today’s Kids Don’t 2
- Family, Culture, MomThink
- June 7, 2024
Louise Bates Ames is one of the psychologists who popularized the idea of child development milestones. In the late ’70s, she wrote a series of books outlining what kids are capable of at different ages. The one you may have heard about is “Your Six-Year-Old: Loving and Defiant.” That’s thanks to Chicago blogger Christie Whitley,
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I’m a Gen Z Woman. Here’s Why I Think Prioritizing Marriage and Family Is Important.5
- Family, Featured, MomThink
- June 6, 2024
“When I grow up, I want to be a mom.” These are common words to hear from young girls; they aspire to be just like their own mothers. But all of a sudden, once those young girls become women, those words become less and less common. Has that maternal desire faded? Perhaps. But might there
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The Uglification of Children Is a Sign of Something Sinister 2
- Family, Culture, MomThink
- June 5, 2024
I saw a teenaged girl at the store recently. She was hardly recognisable as a teenaged girl because of the extreme facial piercings, the Halloween-inspired make-up, the outlandish hairdo, and the dark and foreboding clothes. She looked truly frightening. Several days ago, I saw a different teenaged girl walking home from the bus stop. She
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To Get Kids Off Phones, Open the Door!0
- Family, MomThink
- May 31, 2024
Sorry — another rant. Or maybe it’s more of a revelation. It’s this: Giving kids phones makes possible the impossible demands on parents, that they supervise, assist, drive and chaperone their kids everywhere, every day — usually while holding down another job. It’s only because we can hand kids their electronic devices that we can
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Is Commercial Surrogacy a Human Rights Disaster?3
- Family, MomThink
- May 28, 2024
“This is the most pro-family thing that the Legislature has done,” said Governor Gretchen Whitmer as she signed to legalise commercial surrogacy. Every American state has its own laws on surrogacy; until this year, a strict ban was in place in Michigan. Now it has joined the majority of states that permit some form of commercial surrogacy. The only
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