Because we all know we’re supposed to foster our kids’ independence, but sometimes it’s easier said than done.

Last fall I was sitting in my therapist’s office, crying about whether I would ever have kids. In my 20s, it had been so easy ...

Like many moms of school-aged kids, JoAnna Garcia Swisher [Sweet Magnolias, Reba] spends a lot of her time in the car. Her ...

Trimesters are the Easter Bunny. They are the Tooth Fairy. They are Santa Claus, if Santa Claus was a cop and also had failed ...

Five heavily documented teenagers describe mild embarrassment, a healthy fear of social media, and — get this — empathy for their parents. But what about their children, the kids they ...

Before Akira arrived, like any pregnant woman having their first child, I had so many preconceived ideas about what motherhood would be like and what my child would be like. I would be a mother ...

My 7-year-old is a CrossFit devotee from afar. He freezes every time we pass the one on our block to stare at the biggest muscles engaged in the most extreme act of strength training. At home, he ...

The new dense breast notification on your mammogram results will inform women of their risk factors instead of leaving that ...

Ten months after her husband, Hal, died, Rebecca Woolf posted on Instagram that she was in a new relationship. She hadn’t meant to “‘meet someone’ meet someone,” as she put it.

“I feel like I might be ready but even typing those words gives me anxiety so maybe I’m not.” ...

It’s not just going to therapy that helps women be vulnerable and supportive. It’s hours and hours of deep friendship.

There are so many ways to have a C, and so many ways to feel about one. There are five moms on the edit team at Romper, with nine babies between us — six of those babies came into the world via ...