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  1. parenting
    Is There a Secret to Having a ‘Village’?Well, for one, stop being so precious about everything when it comes to your parenting.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  2. parenting
    Young People Are Helicopter-Parenting Themselves and Each OtherAnd just like their parents before them, their vigilance is suffused with anxiety.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  3. parenting
    Is the Future of Domestic Happiness Buying a House With Your Best Friend?Six months ago, best friends Ayesha Rascoe and Jasmin Melvin, both divorced single moms, bought a house together. Here’s how it’s going.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  4. parenting
    How I’ve Learned to Talk Kids Through Their Brain-Rotting Hot TakesFirst Rule: Don’t Panic.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  5. how i got this baby
    The Gay Dads Pursuing Adoption Over Surrogacy“My brother-in-law was like, ‘Oh, you’re too old to have kids. What are you doing?’”
    As told to Beth Greenfield
  6. parenting
    Career Moms Know Better Than to Openly Love Their JobsAdmitting love of work comes at a cost to family is one of our rare bipartisan taboos.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  7. how i got this baby
    The New Mom Who Left Her Husband After Realizing She Was Bisexual“It was heartbreaking, but we finally decided that we weren’t going to be able to figure it out. We needed to get divorced.”
    As told to Anna Medaris
  8. parenting
    How Are We Supposed to Talk to Our Kids About AI?We adopted social media with the critical thinking of a toddler putting a LEGO in their mouth. Let’s not make that mistake again.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  9. how i got this baby
    The Mom Whose Boyfriend Convinced Her to Get Pregnant at 15“Kyle was telling me all these things — all the right things — about how we could be parents.”
    As told to Stephanie Booth
  10. parenting
    When Your Kids Need You Less, Will You Be Ready?Many of us are so accustomed to being needed in a particular way that we’ve fallen out of practice at being a free and easy wanderer.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  11. celebrity beauty encyclopedia
    An Encyclopedia of Celebrity Beauty BrandsPlease, I beg you, no more celebrity beauty brands.
    By Daise Bedolla, Kathleen Hou, and Erica Smith
  12. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Got Pregnant at the Same Time As Her Surrogate — Twice“I wanted so desperately to have kids, and I found myself not being able to stop — like someone who refuses to get off the treadmill.”
    As told to Katie Sanders
  13. parenting
    Do Your Parents Really Want Your Family to Come Visit?Maybe you can’t go home again — at least not with your kids.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  14. how i got this baby
    The Mom Whose Out-of-State Abortion Made a Healthy Pregnancy Possible“The doctor said, ‘Unfortunately, due to the laws, you just have to go home and wait for his heart to stop.’”
    As told to April Daniels Hussar
  15. parenting
    Are Families Who Play Games Superior?Becoming a games family is now my ultimate familial aspiration.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  16. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Had Two Kids in Medical School“I thought of quitting, but I felt like there was no way I would put my family through that. I had $230,000 in federal loans.”
    As told to Stephanie Booth
  17. parenting
    Is It Fair to Be Judged By Your Kids’ Behavior?When they cast you in a golden spotlight, it feels amazing. But do we deserve the praise — or the scorn?
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  18. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Had to Deliver at 34 Weeks to Start Cancer Treatment“I felt bewildered and almost in disbelief. Immediately, I was like, ‘Please go get my mom.’”
    As told to Stephanie Booth
  19. parenting
    Is Giving Your Kids a ’90s Summer Even Possible?Sure, our kids can rot all summer, but with screens, there will be nothing ’90s about it.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  20. how i got this baby
    The Mom in the Polycule Who Got Pregnant at the Same Time As Her Partner“Sometimes people ask if they’re twins; most often I say ‘yes’ because I don’t want to talk to a bunch of strangers about the details.”
    As told to Anna Medaris
  21. parenting
    Fellow Parents, May I Please Text Less?Incessant phone contact is a form of maternal self-soothing. Enough!
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  22. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Had a Baby After Becoming Paralyzed“When I got pregnant, I wasn’t sure I’d be able to feel her. But at about 19 weeks, there she was — a little flutter.”
    As told to Kristen Mascia
  23. parenting
    Should We Give Our Kids Fewer Choices?Our selfhood is not defined by what we decide to consume. Steering children through the world helps them enjoy simple pleasures.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  24. how i got this baby
    The Mom With Depression and ADHD Who Went Off Her Meds for Pregnancy“My psychiatrist kept saying that this wasn’t easy, but I was more than capable of doing it.”
    As told to Stephanie Booth
  25. parenting
    Happy Mother’s Day to the Moms Who Love to PartyGoing out makes us more alive to the joys of home life.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  26. how i got this baby
    The Runner Who Got Pregnant After a Decade Without a Period“I started to feel like I was in menopause. My hair was getting thin and falling out, and I had a huge crash in energy.”
    As told to April Daniels Hussar
  27. parenting
    What’s the Power of a Family Curse?In today’s fantasies of family optimization, there is almost nothing that can’t be scrubbed out or nurtured into submission. Almost.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  28. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Adopted Two Infants in her 50s“I started to get this pit in my stomach at about 51. I would lay in bed and think about having a baby.”
    As told to Yolanda Wikiel
  29. parenting
    How Worried Should We Be When Kids Use Slurs?Kathryn Jezer-Morton asked a group of ninth-grade public-school boys to weigh in.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  30. sex diaries
    The 69 Best Sex Diaries of All TimeThese are the diaries that blew up our group texts, inspired an internet conspiracy or two, and still make us blush all these years later.
    By the Cut
  31. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Signed Her Baby With a Modeling Agency“Theodore is so confident at every shoot. He’s just like, ‘Mom, watch me work!’ I think I hit the jackpot with him.”
    As told to Stephanie Booth
  32. parenting
    Amanda Hess Unpacks Parenting in the Digital AgeThe author of the tender and funny memoir Second Life understands why you got emotionally attached to your pregnancy-tracking app.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  33. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Went Through IVF in 3 Different Countries“The length of our journey and everything — I feel like all the emotions are tripled.”
    As told to April Daniels Hussar
  34. parenting
    Time to Ditch the COVID-era JudginessFive years ago, what other people did became our business, but many of us haven’t looked back.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  35. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Escaped the Altadena Fire With a Disabled Child and a Newborn“All my daughter’s equipment burned — every single bit of it.”
    As told to April Daniels Hussar
  36. parenting
    How Does ‘Big-Reveal’ Content Shape Our Family Stories?To “prove” that “real stuff” is “happening,” we transform ordinary life into something splashier online.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  37. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Gave Birth While Incarcerated“I gave my daughter a kiss and handed her back to the nurse. And then all of a sudden, I was being taken to a different prison.”
    As told to Stephanie Booth
  38. parenting
    Is Annoyance the Most Romantic Emotion?Love is what holds our households together, but love isn’t what gets things done.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  39. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Is Trying to Become a TikTok Influencer“The first video I posted publicly was my son crying.”
    As told to Stephanie Booth
  40. parenting
    Trad or Not, We’re All Nostalgic for a Fake PastConservatives are trying to bring back a notion of family that never even existed.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  41. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Went Into Heart Failure at 20 Weeks“I could feel this gurgle in my chest, from my lungs. You know when a kettle boils, that bubbling sound? That’s kind of what it was like.”
    As told to Kristen Mascia
  42. parenting
    Should Kids Really Learn About Getting Rich?Turns out the most important financial-literacy skill might be discerning real advice from fantasy.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  43. how i got this baby
    The Ukrainian Mom Who Gave Birth to Premature Twins As Russia Invaded“My mom and I left with one bag. We didn’t even take strollers. The babies were wrapped in big blankets.”
    As told to April Daniels Hussar
  44. how i got this baby
    The 10 Most-Read ‘How I Got This Baby’ Columns in 2024The stories from our biweekly column on becoming a parent that most captured Cut readers’ attention this year.
    By the Cut
  45. parenting
    Is an Overcrowded House Such a Terrible Thing?#DuvetKnowItsChristmas acknowledges the non-Instagrammable reality that a houseful of holiday guests comes at the cost of sleeping in a real bed.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  46. 2024 year in review
    The Cut’s 20 Most-Read Stories in 2024Including several scammers, messy marriages, bad veneers, and an adult-autism diagnosis.
    By the Cut
  47. how i got this baby
    The NICU Nurse Who Adopted Her Patient“I had helped deliver dozens of babies, but there was something about this one.”
    As told to Kristen Mascia
  48. parenting
    What to Get the Adults in Your Life Caring for Young ChildrenA Brooding gift guide.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  49. how i got this baby
    The Mom Who Nearly Died After Her C-section“As soon as I got into the recovery room, I knew something was off.”
    As told to Kristen Mascia
  50. parenting
    Are You a Cycle Breaker — or Just a Grown-up?Thanks to certain pop-psychological concepts, childhood is swallowing adulthood whole.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
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