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Stop George Bush’s Last Attack on Women’s Reproductive Rights
This is it. The Bush administration is poised to issue a last-minute regulation that will impose harsh new restrictions on women’s access to reproductive health care any moment now. Will you help stop...
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Can Social Networking Save a Single Parent? Or at Least Give Her a Little...
I felt a surge of power this summer. It was hot and my son and I had been apart for nine days while he was on vacation with his dad, the longest stretch of time we’d ever been separated. I expected...
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Having a Baby on Your Own (Part 1): Building Your Fertility Team
When I conceived my daughter at age 36 without a partner, I was blissfully unaware that my eggs might be on the verge of expiring. I simply knew I was emotionally and financially ready to become a...
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Having a Baby on Your Own (Part 2): Building Your Fertility Team
Part 2: Choosing a Fertility Specialist: Q: Should I use my ob/gyn or a fertility doctor? Unlike married couples, who go to fertility specialists after a long period of unprotected sex, the single...
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Ann Coulter: One Giant Step Backwards for Single Moms
As if single mothers don’t have enough to contend with, now we have Ann Coulter announcing that if you are a victim of a crime, you can thank a single mother. In a recent interview on the Today show to...
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A recent episode of the television series House really hit home with me recently. One of the characters, the Chief Administrator at a fictional teaching hospital, adopted a baby girl, becoming a...
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Parenting Tips by Dr. Susan Bartell
It was almost in slow motion that Jeanette watched her favorite bowl fall-at least until the crash and shatter into thousands of pieces. Eight-year old Emily stopped twirling and stood frozen, partly...
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Will a “Pink Viagra” Give Us Ladies Lusty Libidos?
For almost a decade now, pharmaceutical companies have been on a mission: to make a pill that puts–and keeps–women in the mood for sex. If they accomplish this goal, the market it is (no pun intended)...
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Going it Alone: The Good-Enough Single Mother
Can a single mother be a good enough mother? And what do we mean by a “good enough mother?” This term was coined by Donald Winnicott, an English psychoanalyst who had first been a pediatrician and...
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Beauty Gifts for Mother’s Day
Face it. There’s no way you can possibly pay Mom back for 49 hours of labor; thousands of changed dirty diapers; braces, new bikes, and college tuition; and an infinite amount of unconditional love....
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