The British government has unleashed yet another obstacle for working mothers everywhere. Two female police officers, both mothers, have been taking turns caring for each others’ children while one of them works. Their arrangement has been declared illegal and the Department for Children, Schools, and Families (DCSF) wants them to each register as a child ...
A woman has just made history by getting pregnant while already pregnant! According to her doctors, when she went for a routine ultrasound to check on her pregnancy they found a second fetus which was 3 weeks younger. This is called superfetation and is so rare there are only 10 cases in recorded medical history. ...
Mick // Having a baby is difficult. Its basic maintenance is time consuming and boring. And because James Delingpole doesn’t like it, and none of his friends do either, he assumes women love it.
Morning Quickie
What a vile, selfish thing the working mom is, depriving children of love and shunning her natural maternal instincts. The Daily Mail looks at this old chestnut and says that we’ll be surprised by the answer. But we’re not. Louise Chunn, former editor of InStyle, reveals her experiences as a working mom. She had two ...
Mack // Shere Hite, a sex researcher famous for the Hite Report in 1976, was featured in an article in the Times about the debate over motherhood and the right to bear children. Hite’s view is that motherhood is a feminist issue and women should have the right to bear children at any age. When asked ...
Results of a study show that the most religious American states also have the highest teenage birth rates. As childish as it seems, I can’t help thinking “I told you so!” With abstinence-only programs teaching young people only the failure rates of birth control methods, they would not have the confidence to buy them, let ...
Your stomach is distended. Your ankles are swollen and your breasts are sore – but you want to get some. What is a mother to be to do? A lingerie company for pregnant/breast feeding mothers called HOTmilk has a new ad campaign designed to make pregnant women feel sexy and desirable. The tv spot (after ...
A piece published in the Times yesterday explained that mother-in-laws are no longer the villains of family dynamics. Comparing their daughter’s husbands to their own spouses, women are shocked and surprised to find that the younger generation of men are willing to pull their own weight around the house. She cannot believe that the daughter ...
This week, for a change of pace, I’m looking at non-fiction online. Bookslut is an established and well-publicised e-zine...
The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet...
Happy Earth Day! Earth Day Network and Women Saving the World - Kathleen Rogers from Womensphere on Vimeo.
As I lay stricken in bed the other night, twisted in agony and gurning manfully at the grinding torment...
Sandwiches. Gender conspiracy. War on women. Let me explain. It was a sunny afternoon here in southern Germany. I’d...
Touch his penis! Men like it and it feels good. Plus sometimes they do need help getting hard and...
On rare occasions, television does reflect real life. A new series that debuted on HBO last weekend, Girls offers...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend seems to have a man-crush on one of his male friends who he really...
