Recognizing and honoring the unique and different aspects of being a mother in 2023 While Mother’s Day is a time for mothers across the globe to be celebrated, it is equally important …
Janet Garcia-Hallett, an Afro-Latina mother, first-gen scholar, and a product of Harlem, is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven’s Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and …
by Ana Villalobos “I just don’t feel quite right in the world without at least one child next to me…I should be more confident and not need a child almost as a …
Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and local residents. In Born Out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor, Nicole …
UC Press author Cameron Macdonald was interviewed by Forbes.com on the complex bonds mothers forge with the “shadow mothers”—nannies, au pairs, daycare providers—in their lives. Macdonald, a professor of Sociology at the …
What do you do when your mother writes a book about maternal ambivalence, which then receives a rave review in The New Yorker? After “smash[ing] your head against the wall three times,” …
Barbara Almond, psychotherapist and author of The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood, writes about the common, but little-discussed issue of maternal ambivalence in her most recent blog post for Psychology …