Parenting & Family Archives

Why Can’t I Just Grieve Forever?

You’re sick of people giving you advice about moving past your grief. Also, another reader is annoyed with themselves for being annoyed about their ex’s new relationship, despite being in…

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Jul 17, 2026

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It’s Officially Baby Time But Oops I Changed My Mind

Having children was in your wedding vows — but now the world sucks so bad that you’ve changed your mind. Also: how to eat her out without breaking out.

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May 8, 2026

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She Thinks We Should Leave Brooklyn for Our Kids

Will their kids be happier in the suburbs than in Brooklyn? Also, trying to keep up with a financially literate partner.

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Nov 21, 2025

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I’m Jealous That My Ex-Wife’s New Wife Is a Better Coparent Than My Girlfriend

You were ok with your girlfriend’s disinterest in parenting — until your ex-wife remarried. Also, a reader needing tips on quitting weed.

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Oct 31, 2025

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Should We Be Paying Our Friends To Babysit?

They’re doing well financially and love your kid — should you still offer money? Also; tips on giving complements to mascs and butches.

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Aug 29, 2025

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How Do I Talk To My Family About Harry Potter?

How do you talk to your family about JK Rowling’s transphobia? And what to do about your poly kinky friend who seems bored by your monogamous life?

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Aug 1, 2025

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A Breastfeeding Journey Of a Thousand Miles Begins With a Single Baby Step

“I woke up feeling like someone had run me over with a truck and I thought, “I guess this is motherhood.” And probably would’ve died thinking that.”

Riese

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Jul 10, 2025

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Can Immigrant Mothers Heal With Their Queer Kids? These Desi Aunties Are Trying

Desi parents get a bad rap in America. Across TV and social media, immigrant aunties are typecast as judgmental or conservative, or else passive victims of circumstance, unable to navigate…

Malavika Kannan

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Jun 10, 2025

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I Regret To Inform You That Our Baby Will Be Throwing Up On Your Shirt

At first you don’t really know which of the baby’s behaviors are going to be a Thing and which are just the music playing in the lobby before you sit…

Riese

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May 1, 2025

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Our Birth Story Has Severe Features

Our birth story has everything: preclampsia with severe features, catheters, bloody explosions, ginger ale, nurses from heaven, a birthing ball used as a chair and the eventual debut of a…

Riese

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Apr 8, 2025

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‘My Partner Is Hurt I’ve Changed My Mind About Having a Baby’

This is one of those incredibly difficult situations where you and your partner are both entitled to your feelings even though those feelings are at direct odds with each other.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Mar 4, 2025

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For Many Queer People, Cutting Off Family Is Hard but Vital

My wife, novelist Kristen Arnett, hasn’t had any real contact with her parents for about eight years.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Nov 7, 2024

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Why Can’t I Just Grieve Forever?

It’s Officially Baby Time But Oops I Changed My Mind

She Thinks We Should Leave Brooklyn for Our Kids

I’m Jealous That My Ex-Wife’s New Wife Is a Better Coparent Than My Girlfriend

Should We Be Paying Our Friends To Babysit?

How Do I Talk To My Family About Harry Potter?

A Breastfeeding Journey Of a Thousand Miles Begins With a Single Baby Step

Can Immigrant Mothers Heal With Their Queer Kids? These Desi Aunties Are Trying

I Regret To Inform You That Our Baby Will Be Throwing Up On Your Shirt

Our Birth Story Has Severe Features

‘My Partner Is Hurt I’ve Changed My Mind About Having a Baby’

For Many Queer People, Cutting Off Family Is Hard but Vital

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