for the new generation of mothers
Values, beliefs, and the things you stand for. Part of Identity.
The political commentator and author of I Disagree on toddler negotiations, grief, pandemic love, and raising daughters who know their opinions matter.
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It started with one woman loading boxes into her car. Eight years later, This Is About Humanity helps serve more than 3,500 meals a day at the border.
The US has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the developed world, no federal paid leave, and the most expensive childcare in the OECD.…
From prenatal care to the first year of childcare, the honest line-by-line accounting of what families are actually spending — and what it reveals about a country that says it values motherhood.
The proposed FY27 budget would cut WIC's fruit and vegetable benefits by 75% for breastfeeding mothers and 62% for young children — the first benefit cut in the programme's 50-year history.
Two-thirds of parents say the demands of parenthood feel isolating. Why modern motherhood is so lonely, and what actually helps.
Mass layoffs at HRSA have left Title V — the block grant funding maternal and child health services in all 50 states — functionally unstaffed. What's at stake, and what states are doing.
The money is sometimes there — it's just buried in acronyms and government websites. A plain-English guide to every federal and state benefit you may be entitled to, with the links to apply.
Federal childcare funds lapsed in 2023 and experts predicted a cliff. What landed instead was a plateau — dysfunction so comprehensive it's now treated as the new normal.
Medicaid covers 41% of US births — over 60% in some states. What the H.R. 1 cuts mean for prenatal care, deliveries, and postpartum coverage, and which mothers bear the risk.
At nearly $20,000 a year, infant care now costs more than in-state college tuition in California and New York. The structural failures behind the crisis, and what other countries do differently.
In 2025 the CDC paused PRAMS, the system that tracked maternal mortality for 38 years. What was paused, what's been erased, and what the measurement gap means for every mother giving birth in America.