Generation Zii

The feminist battleground, with its slogans, marches, and campaigns for reproductive rights, has given way to the playground and the fight for lactation rights, stroller rights, school-system rights, unpasteurized milk rights, charter schools, birthing techniques, nutritional value of bagged lunches...

In July 2008, I learned that I had a seven-inch cancerous tumor in my left femur. I instantly worried about my three-year-old twin daughters and what life might be like for them. Three days later, I awoke with an idea...

The technology that allows parents to spend more time at home — laptops and cellphones and mobile e-mail — is blurring the lines between work and personal life and distracting them from the “family time” they crave.

Schoolyard bullies have existed as long as schoolyards, and they have brought many a kid to tears. As hurtful as those bullies were, at least victims had an escape — home. Today, however, kids deal with cyberbullies, and technology is around the...

Nursing mothers will now get additional support, thanks to page 1239 of the health care bill that President Obama recently signed into law. It requires employers to provide “a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and...

Asian, African-American, Hispanic, and Native American children in the United States have higher rates of death and more illness compared to their white classmates.

The lives of nearly 900 babies would be saved each year, along with billions of dollars, if 90 percent of U.S. women breast-fed their babies for the first six months of life, a cost analysis says.

Our careers were proof that generations of oppression were over, the revolution complete and women were finally “free”. …Our mothers hoped that we would be more independent from men — but they equated independence entirely with money. So while we...

We all have our guilty pleasures and mine happens to be music videos.  I watched history in the making when I – ehem – stayed home from school sick to watch MTV the first full day it was on air.  ...

“As a grad student in psychology I loved attachment theory — it made intuitive, evolutionary sense. But as a mom the label attachment parenting turned me off because it seemed to be defined by distinct lifestyle choices. Even though Dr....