American women are still having too few babies to replace themselves and their partners, the latest national birth data suggests. In what the U.S Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) described as a “nonsignificant decline,” the nation recorded 3,661,220 new babies in 2022, just a few thousand less than the year before. Overall, the…

My mom adores breakfast in bed. Who doesn’t? In fact, she’s got a pretty sweet situation with my father prepping her coffee and bringing in the paper nearly every morning. After 30 years at a job where she had to burst into action at a very early hour, she relishes her mornings of moving a…

It’s no secret that moms wear many hats. Keeping it all together can feel like a mere pipe dream at times. Nikki Oden seems to be figuring it out. She is the founder of Your Ideal Mom Life, host of the Love Your Mom Life podcast, and author of the new book, “But Definitely Wear…

Paul, a young man whose father was once lieutenant governor of California before his untimely death, has a strange, recurring dream in which his mother falls in love with a dangerous man (Brett Curtis)—a dream which also contains the image of his father’s death in an automobile accident under mysterious circumstances. Through the help of…

For me, Mother’s Day often brings to mind an old poem by Rudyard Kipling: If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were drowned in the deepest sea, Mother o’ mine,…

I always wanted to be an artist. With the loving help of my parents, I worked to become one. After studying diligently in the United States, I moved to Europe for years in pursuit of realism at the highest levels. My mom supported me. We talked on the phone long distance almost every day. When…

That summer day in Portland, the parish priest was in the old neighborhood and visited the house as a matter of courtesy since he knew that my mother was old and ill. According to my sister, his appearance standing at the bedroom door signaled to her that she must be dying and he was there…

What mother hasn’t, at one time or another, felt like she was completely failing at motherhood? Why is this feeling so universal, and what can a mom do to pull herself out of the despair it brings? I asked Risa Williams, psychotherapist and author of “The Ultimate Anxiety Toolkit: 25 Tools to Worry Less, Relax…

Whether you’re thinking ahead to Mother’s Day or just wanting to do something nice for your wife, daughter, or mom—here are a few very simple ideas that will surely put a smile on her face. Acknowledgment Moms can sometimes feel invisible or unappreciated for the things they do, although they probably understand that their work…

Changing words like ‘women’ and ‘mothers’ to gender-inclusive terms like ‘vagina owners’ or ‘birthers’ in medical research has the potential to dehumanise women and diminish the importance of the mother-child relationship, leading researchers have said. In an opinion article officially published in the journal Frontiers in Global Women’s Health on Feb. 7, 10 women’s health…