Like a Mommy
February 29th, 2024 | by Caite McNeil
I'm just going to chalk it up to poor word choice
Browsing the "Families" Category
She Wasn’t Ever Ours to Keep
February 5th, 2024 | by Elizabeth di Grazia
Every time Mayra was pregnant, the father said the child was not his. But after he learned we'd adopted one of his children, he threatened to kidnap her
Do You See What I See?
January 18th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
Did I sense my dad’s sadness about this time of year? Was it the shortening days, the story of a magical baby born in the bleakest of times
Living With a Mark
December 11th, 2023 | by Ashley MacLure
My mother sleeps all day, takes too many pills, and doesn’t recognize me at night
Stomping Our Feet: Tantrums, Maternal Instinct, Mom Rage, And Burning it All Down
November 16th, 2023 | by Elizabeth Tannen
I gloated to my mother: “I feel like I should be a mom influencer or something.”
My Mother’s Poetry
November 14th, 2023 | by Rebecca Brenner
Twenty years ago, when my mother died from substance abuse disorder at the beginning of the opioid crisis, I inherited a Washington Apples box full of her unpublished poetry, journals, and short stories
Just a House
August 22nd, 2023 | by Risa Polansky Shiman
When we found out we were losing our baby, I was six months pregnant, and my husband and I were days away from closing on our first house
Better
August 15th, 2023 | by Charise Alexander Adams
She may never fully believe she can depend on me – she has been let down too many times. These things are part of the gulf between us that can never be closed – but it can be bridged
Let’s Get Mad: Celebrate a MUTHA of a decade
August 14th, 2023 | by Mutha Magazine
MUTHA magazine x Pen Parentis x Brooklyn Book Fest = Lit Party
The “M” Word
June 19th, 2023 | by Angela Tucker
“Adoption does provide a different life,” I said, erasing the judgment about it being good or bad, better or worse