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“Transparent” tells the truth about being a mom: Motherhood is just as performative as gender

Shannon M. Houston
Jill Soloway's groundbreaking series explores how motherhood is a role played for audiences, big and small

“I’m the parent who wants their kids to have sex”: Mary Louise Parker talks poetry, nudity, one-night stands and her brilliant new book

Elissa Schappell
Talking politics, feminism, sex and parenting -- sometimes all at once -- with the brilliant actress-turned-writer

My NYC parenting nightmare: It’s either hell or Larry David

Johanna Gohmann
When I decided to have kids, nobody warned me about innermost circles of New York hell: subways and other people

Scott Weiland’s ex-wife nails our shallow obsession with dead rock stars: “Don’t glorify this tragedy with talk of rock and roll and the demons”

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A no-holds-barred letter in Rolling Stone reveals the truth about addiction's toll on family and children

Mom, did you ever get high?

Kate Tuttle
When I was a teenager, I was fortunate to have a father who leveled with me. I owe my daughter the same honesty

“Stop telling me I’m poisoning my kids”: Food crusaders, sancti-mommies and the rise of entitled eaters

Jenny Splitter
I was an all-organic, clean-eating, sugar-free mom, too. It drove my family insane without making us healthier

Our mandatory breast-feeding fetish: Race, class, big business and the new politics of motherhood

Courtney Jung
Some reports suggest breast-feeding's benefits can be overstated. So why such public and moral pressure behind it?

The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke

George Makari
There will be no lack of odes to colonial America today. Let's also remember the man whose ideas made it possible

We, the people, remain filled with rage: Race, Yale, p.c. and a nation spinning apart

Jim Sleeper
The noise machine of conservative media and partisanship gone amok has machine-gunned and closed the American mind

The peak of Sinatra’s power: “Every Sinatra performance was acting. His greatest performance was as himself”

Scott Timberg
Salon speaks to biographer James Kaplan about the Chairman of the Board's second act

You don’t need God for comfort: 7 places atheists can turn to in times of need

Greta Christina
The support net for nonbelievers is far wider and more comprehensive than even they realize

“My infant died. He should have been with me”: The horror too nightmarish to comprehend

Kim Brooks
We tell mothers to do what's best for their babies, but only for the first 12 weeks. Then the unimaginable happened

Mary Gaitskill broke my heart: “The Mare” stuns — in all the wrong ways

Laura Bogart
Discovering Gaitskill's short stories was a revelation. Perhaps that explains why her new novel is so disappointing

Here’s what I’ve got for you, Kid: Lucky for my daughter, she’s half made up of her dad so the bad knees and slow metabolism aren’t a sure thing

Emily Flake
I hope to pass on more than stubby hands & skin problems -- like what it means to be of a people or from a place

America loves a single dad: When was the last time a single mom became a viral hero just for raising her kids?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Richard Johnson's heartfelt message was met with cheers, while single mothers just get scorn from the right

Jeff Buckley’s life after death: “Lost” albums can be sketchy, but “You and I” could be the missing piece of the Gen X legend’s legacy

Scott Timberg
There are reasons to be skeptical about posthumous releases, but Buckley -- and his fans -- deserve this one

“Daddy Don’t Go” smashes stereotypes of disadvantaged “deadbeat” dads: “Stability is the biggest gift that you get when you enter the middle class”

Christine Jun
Salon talks to a documentary filmmaker who chronicled 4 fathers through 2 years of parenting and life challenges

“The mother has asked us to adopt”: Married gay couple fights to keep foster kid removed by Utah judge

Mary Elizabeth Williams
This judge says kids do better with straight parents -- but the research says otherwise

Alec Baldwin gets it right: Parents don’t have to be weird about their adult children’s sex lives

Rachel Kramer Bussel
Baldwin discussed his daughter Ireland's fluid sexuality and its influence on him without creepiness or shame

There is sex after childbirth: What to expect in the bedroom when you’re done expecting

Don't despair, new moms. Your sex life may never be what it was, but that doesn't mean you're doomed to bed death

We choose to be anxious, stressed, afraid: “We set ourselves the goal of trying to avoid things that are utterly out of our control”

Scott Timberg
Salon speaks to a psychologist about stress, parenting, and ways to deal with both

Abortion and “Jane the Virgin”: Ultimately, giving birth is the one choice that matters on this show

Nico Lang
Like many shows and films, the telenovela often struggles to walk its pro-choice talk

Halloween is my nightmare, but not for the usual reasons

Candy Schulman
"Ghouls and goblins didn’t understand that his grieving soon-to-be-widow had nothing sweet to spare."

Carrots are not Halloween candy: Stop telling us what we can — and can’t — hand out for trick-or-treat

Mary Elizabeth Williams
"Responsible parenting" signs in a Connecticut neighborhood stir up controversy over allergy-friendly treats
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