Pregnancy is a time where women should be able to pig out without the guilt. It’s dinner for two every night! But a dangerous new trend reflects that the pressure to be thin is affecting moms. Celebrities like Victoria Beckham, Rachel Zoe and reality star Bethenny Frankel are starving themselves during and post-pregnancy in an ...
There are endless reports telling women how to be good moms and they often contradict each other. One debate is over how much we should coddle babies and how much we should let them deal with life on their own. Looks like the verdict is in and cuddles reign supreme! The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health reported on ...
We all know that “breast is best”. Women have been breastfeeding their children since the beginning of time and it’s obviously the most natural and normal way to do things. But the Breastfeeding Network (BN) wants this slogan dropped because they think it favours formula companies. I think they need to get over it. The ...
In America, more and more women are delaying motherhood to pursue education and careers. This is great for many reasons, especially a better educated population with less teenage pregnancies. And this trend includes women from ”all ethnicities in the United States.” Children born to highly educated mothers increasingly are born later in life. The mothers are usually married, and ...
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The latest film in the American Pie series, American Reunion, contains a shocking scene – male full-frontal nudity including...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
