In Philadelphia, Women Are Dying for A Bigger Butt
By NICK CHILES Police in Philadelphia are on the verge of throwing a murder charge at a woman who allegedly killed a London tourist by...
Wisconsin Senator Thinks Single Parenthood Is Child Abuse—And Proposes Bill To Make It So
A Wisconsin legislator recently authored a controversial bill that would force the state’s Health department to claim in literature that children from single parent homes...
Maya Angelou’s Note To Her 15-Year-Old Self (VIDEO)
Gail King recently debuted a new segment on CBS This Morning called, “Note To Self,” a series that invites celebrities to write personal letters to...
Boy Shoots His Mother at Point Blank Range—And Puts Our Parenting Conflicts In Perspective
By NICK CHILES If you’re a parent whose kid has been acting up this week and putting you through knucklehead changes, for some much-needed perspective...
Harmony: The Sustainable Alternative To Work/Life Balance
By Akilah S. Richards In “Balance Is For Yoga & Flamingoes,” part one of this two-part series on our struggles with work-life balance, I discussed...
Prosecutor Pushing Prison For Co-Sleeping Parents
A prosecutor in Indiana thinks the worldwide-but-controversial practice of sleeping with your baby in the bed is a prosecutable offense, and he’s vowed to bring...
Using a Condom May Not Be As Easy as We Thought
By NICK CHILES After a number of years (or decades) as a grown-up, most of us probably assume we got the whole condom thing figured...
Balance is for Yoga and Flamingos: Rethinking Work/Life Balance For Busy Moms
By Akilah S. Richards Far be it for me to dictate what a grown woman should believe—particularly as it relates to how she chooses to...
[UPDATE] Homeless Connecticut Mom Pleads Guilty to Stealing an Education for Her Son
[UPDATE] McDowell received a sentence of 12 years for her crimes—drugs and larceny for stealing an education. She will serve five years in prison and...
Esperanza Spalding’s “What A Wonderful World” At the Oscars (Video)
When my girls were babies, I used to nurse and rock them to sleep to the sweet sounds of Tony Bennett, Stevie Wonder, Kathleen Battle...
Deadly School Shooting in Ohio—Yet Another Example of America’s Gun Obsession (UPDATE)
UPDATE—another student wounded in the Ohio school shooting has died, bringing to three the number of fatalities in the attack by a teen who opened fire...
Beyonce’s First Time Out With Blue Ivy Carter: Remembering the Newborn In Public Jitters
I can’t explain why, but pictures of Beyonce and Jay-Z taking their seven-week-old, Blue Ivy Carter, out on a lunchtime stroll in New York City...
Viola Davis and The Oscars: Anatomy Of A Best Actress Snub
Academy Award nominee Viola Davis, star of the controversial film, The Help, went home empty-handed last night after losing the Best Actress Oscar to her...
An Unlimited Supply of Eggs? Exciting Breakthrough for Couples Battling with Infertility
By NICK CHILES A new scientific breakthrough could be wonderful news for future couples going through the trials of infertility: scientists have discovered that human...
Church Bans Children So Pedophile Pastor Can Preach
A Jacksonville, Fla., Baptist church has banned children from Sunday services so that its new pastor, a confessed, convicted and known child abuser and rapist...
