Maya Angelou's Decision to Keep Her Child

In an essay that originally appeared in Family Circle magazine, America's beloved poet Maya Angelou described the birth of her first and only child, ...

Stephen Colbert on Gratitude in Suffering

GQ magazine's interview with talk show host Stephen Colbert explored how he found gratitude in the midst of suffering ("The Late, Great Stephen ...

Novelist Amy Tan on Pressure from Mom

The New York Times interviewed the Chinese novelist Amy Tan, a woman who has written some powerful books about the immigrant and minority experience in ...

Denzel Washington's Mom Teaches Him About Humility

"When I was young and started really making it as an actor, I came and talked to my mother and said, 'Mom, did you think this was going to happen? ...

Actress on Her New Role—Motherhood

Actress Sarah Drew, who has appeared on Grey's Anatomy and in the film Mom's Night Out, had this to say about her new role as a mother:

The stay-at-home ...

Moms Are the Most-Quizzed People

A survey from the U.K. involving 1,000 mothers found that moms may be the most quizzed people on the planet. On average, from breakfast to afternoon tea ...

Our Brains Can't Handle Unlimited Multitasking

In her book Maxxed Out: American Moms on the Brink, Katrina Alcorn asks mothers, "Do you ever feel as if being a parent has turned you into an expert ...

We Weren't Meant to Suffer Alone

In her funny, off-beat memoir, journalist and writer Heather Havrilesky reminds us how community (whether in a family or a church family) implies carrying ...

Parents Create Narcissistic Children

The Washington Post writing about a study opines that parents are to blame for the growing narcissism in the world, rather than the influence of, say, ...

Helicopter Parenting Is a Global Problem

American parents aren't the only ones who struggle with parenting issues. Helicopter parenting seems to have become a global problem. An article in ...