Parenthood

Margaret Cho: Babies scare me more than anything

I still don't know if I want children. Frankly, I'm not sure I ever want to love anything that much

Margaret Cho Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 30
Life Life stories, Feminism, Children

Selling my eggs to make rent

Hawking body parts, pregnancy as a capital-E experience, and crashing uterus-first into the glass ceiling

Kaye Cain-Nielsen, Cluster Mag Sunday, Feb 3, 2013 6:00 PM UTC
Life Health, Women's Rights, Pregnancy

Motherhood isn’t the path to enlightenment for all women

An open letter to a "friend" is a sanctimommy nightmare

Mary Elizabeth Williams Thursday, Jan 24, 2013 9:10 PM UTC 33
Life Motherhood, Janine Kovac

“Juno” isn’t the average abortion

Forty years after Roe v. Wade, why do we still think of white middle-class women as the typical abortion patients?

Amanda Marcotte, The American Prospect Tuesday, Jan 22, 2013 4:28 PM UTC 17
All Salon The American Prospect, Juno

“Parenthood’s” Erika Christensen, a Scientologist, wants to make things clear

This week, Lawrence Wright's big Scientology exposé hits bookstores, and the TV star says we have it all wrong VIDEO

Daniel D'Addario Tuesday, Jan 15, 2013 6:59 PM UTC 12
Entertainment Video, Scientology, John Travolta

Digitizing classic games doesn’t always work

Some things were just meant to be analog SLIDE SHOW

Ej Dickson Thursday, Jan 10, 2013 11:57 PM UTC
Entertainment slideshow, games, Parenthood

“Parenthood” bravely tackles abortion

The NBC drama "Parenthood" tackles a subject that's often too scary for network TV

Willa Paskin Wednesday, Jan 9, 2013 2:30 PM UTC
Entertainment TV, Television, Abortion

Blue Glow TV Awards: Willa Paskin

VIDEO

Willa Paskin Friday, Dec 21, 2012 2:30 PM UTC
Entertainment Video, 2012 Blue Glow TV Awards

Channel surfing: “Happy Endings” battles helmet hair, “Glee” celebrates Hanukkah

Pithy takeaways and observations on the best shows this week VIDEO

Willa Paskin Friday, Dec 14, 2012 5:20 PM UTC
Entertainment Video, TV, Television, Parenthood

“The New Normal” vs. “Modern Family”

"Modern Family" is all jazz hands and bed death and gay minstrelsy. It's "New Normal" that has the real gay cred

Kera Bolonik Wednesday, Dec 12, 2012 4:01 PM UTC 12
Entertainment LGBT, Gay Marriage, Parenthood

Our infertile years

I tried everything I could to get pregnant. Each new method was a challenge to my self-esteem, and also my marriage

Vanessa Hua Monday, Nov 19, 2012 12:59 AM UTC 10
Life Parenthood, Fertility, IVF

“Parenthood’s” Mae Whitman: “All I do is talk about Tim Riggins and the Panthers”

The drama's prodigal daughter cops to an obsession with a bygone TV character — and to crying watching her own show

Willa Paskin Sunday, Nov 18, 2012 8:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Television, TV, Interviews

Pretending fear doesn’t exist

For the novelist, fear of the events in the real world was more than enough

Jonathan Lethem Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 9:00 PM UTC
Life Horror, Parenthood

Is motherhood really a lie?

Jessica Valenti's new book challenges our preconceptions about the joys of parenting but misses what makes it vital

Stephanie Bower, LA Review of Books Friday, Oct 19, 2012 8:48 PM UTC 33
Entertainment Why Have Kid?, Tiger Mom, Mothers

My 20 minutes in fertility hell

When my wife had trouble conceiving, I had to stare down my fears in a room filled with porn DVDs and Hustlers

Greg Pollock Friday, Sep 21, 2012 12:00 AM UTC 20
Life Masturbation, Parenthood

“Parenthood” goes maudlin

Just what the already sentimental drama does not need: A cancer story line

Willa Paskin Wednesday, Sep 19, 2012 12:49 PM UTC
Entertainment TV, Television, Parenthood

Trust me on this: The Beatles’ “Let It Be”

The acclaimed author hopes his daughter finds her own musical path but still felt proud when she loved the Beatles

Rick Moody Tuesday, May 29, 2012 10:30 PM UTC 17
Entertainment Trust Me On This, Music

I want to be a codger dad

In my 50s, I'd finally like to settle down and have kids -- but I'll need a younger woman

Cary Tennis Wednesday, Mar 7, 2012 1:00 AM UTC 191
Life Since You Asked, Fathers

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