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The Mom Who Moved in With Her Sperm Donor

“Once he met the baby, he told me, ‘I just held him and I fell in love with him.’” By Yolanda Wikiel

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Fertility

bullshit Trump Claims He Wants to Make IVF Free Responding to his off-the-cuff announcement, Elizabeth Warren tweeted, “American women are not stupid.” By Danielle Cohen
parenting Why Would Anyone Look for a Sperm Donor on Facebook? Meet the women logging on for fresh semen and the men who get their kicks offering their seed. By Anya Kamenetz

celebrity Selling Sunset’s Mary Fitzgerald Is Having Uterine Surgery The reality star says she made plans for the procedure after suffering a septic miscarriage. By Emily Leibert
fertility What If You Hadn’t Frozen Your Eggs? For many patients, egg freezing provides the comfort of possibility. But for some, the procedure can be so uncomfortable it no longer feels worth it. By Rae Nudson

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Pregnancy

how i got this baby The Mom Who Expected Her Baby’s Father to Leave His Wife “He was planting seeds in my head that we could be together one day.” By Yolanda Wikiel
personal finance How Much Does It Actually Cost to Give Birth? And how to navigate the flurry of hospital bills. By Charlotte Cowles

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pet ethics Why Did I Stop Loving My Cat When I Had a Baby? My postpartum loathing of Lucky made me wonder whether I might be a late-onset psychopath. By Anonymous
how i got this baby The Mom Who Went Back to Work in Construction 9 Days After Giving Birth “That first year of my daughter’s life, trying to keep my business afloat and dealing with the pressures of COVID, was the worst year of my life.” By Yolanda Wikiel

how i got this baby The Single Dad Who Had a Baby Via Surrogate “I always say I’m doing this solo, not alone. Alone sounds sad. Solo sounds like more of an adventure.” By Kristen Mascia
how i got this baby The Mom Who Got Pregnant While on Birth Control at Age 46 “I didn’t think about how much work it was going to be until I was all up in it. And then, suddenly, I was like, What did I do?” By Yolanda Wikiel

Kids

parenting How an Exhausting, Stressful Summer Trip Helped My Shy Kid Come Out of His Shell Trust me: All that travel chaos is worth it. By Amil Niazi
parenting Planet Grok My son and I spent a week playing with an artificially intelligent stuffed rocket ship — and glimpsed the eerie and irritating future of play. By Katie Arnold-Ratliff

nostalgia Why Did I Ever Give Up Family Chain Restaurants? The artichoke dip is good. The nostalgia — and permission for my kids to be messy — is even better. By Colleen McKeegan
encounter What Does It Take to Get a Rich Kid Into Kindergarten? Sophie Brickman’s novel is about the absurdity of New York’s private-school-admissions process. Much of it seems pulled directly from her own life. By Katie Arnold-Ratliff

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Teens

parenting Who Is All That Obsessively Detailed College-Dorm Decorating Really For? How “Dorm Room Mamas” are using Amazon to helicopter-parent their kids post high-school graduation. By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
social media Snapchat Is a Minefield for Teen Friendships The hugely popular app ranks users based on how much they interact with each other. What could go wrong? By Casey Lewis

teens Meet the Teen Boys Getting Perms So long, shaggy boy-band hair. Hello, alpaca mops. By Jennifer G. Sullivan
teens How Are You Auramaxxing? On TikTok, teens — mostly boys — have come up with a new, potentially troubling way to win literal cool points. By Laura Pitcher

Parenting Advice

parenting The Transgender Family Handbook 144 specific suggestions for how to be a supportive parent to your trans kid, according to trans young people and their loved ones.
celebrity Paris Hilton Has One Word for Critics of Her Parenting And for once, it’s not sliving. By Emily Leibert

parenting Emily Oster Softens Up In her new book, The Unexpected, the economist turned parenting expert examines life-threatening pregnancy complications that defy optimization. By Miranda Rake
parenting Talking to My Kids About the Unbearable When cruelty is inescapable, what are we supposed to tell our children? By Amil Niazi

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Parenting Trends

niche drama What’s the Deal With the Viral Influencer Couple Who ‘Boycotted’ Father’s Day? A Matt and Abby Howard primer. By Allie Jones
parenting I Don’t Need Your Opinion on My Kid’s Screen Time Talking about how you’ll parent someday is one thing. Surviving a kid’s tantrum so bad you question every choice you’ve ever made is another. By Amil Niazi

parenting The Rise of the Accidentally Permissive Parent Some moms and dads who strive to be “gentle parents” unknowingly turn into indulgent ones, largely because gentle parenting is just too hard. By Elizabeth Passarella
parenting Are We All Secretly Co-sleeping? The answer, according to Instagram and TikTok, is yes. Now if only we could talk about it outside of the comments section. By Wendy Syfret

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