Journalism in an age of decline and degradation
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Far-right protesters cower behind motherhood
Lost men are using mothers to launder their dirty ideas
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On freedom vs motherhood
Helen Taylor’s memoir Childless by Choice – a reflection on her child-free life – offers the perspective that’s often missing…
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Maternity leave isn’t “leave” – it’s hard work
Just as women need to be told about the realities of pregnancy, we should be honest about the next stage.
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Why celebrity surrogacy announcements provoke such anger
Lily Collins has become a lightning rod for outrage and dismay in the fraught territory of fertility.
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Motherhood is full of agony, but its songs are deemed “nice”
I’d always shied away from writing sentimental songs about having babies for fear of seeming too soppy.
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The trauma ward
Each year thousands of women suffer the nightmare of a traumatic birth. I was one of them.
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Leslie Jamison’s Splinters captures the paradoxes of motherhood
This intimate memoir explores the contradictions of being a parent, a partner and an artist – singly, and all at…
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Motherhood, the most political experience of my life
I thought my husband and I were equal in our social freedoms and status. Then I became a mother.
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The Eternal Daughter is a haunting without ghosts
A protean Tilda Swinton completely inhabits the roles of both mother and daughter.
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The maternity unit is no place for a culture war
Britain’s maternity services are underfunded, understaffed and divided by an ideological battle over the best way to give birth.
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There will be blood
Motherhood is the most profound metamorphosis most women will go through. Why is this process so overlooked?
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Why young mothers terrify me
I want to have children – so why does getting pregnant fill me with fear?
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From Max Porter to Xiaolu Guo: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring All the Houses I’ve Ever Lived In by Kieran Yates and Uproar by Alice Loxton.
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Mothering Sunday reminds us the Church still has a role in our communities
What is it that gives communities such a sense of relationship with a building that they are likely rarely to…
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The feminist case against progress
From sex-positivity to abortion, liberal advances have dehumanised women, argues Mary Harrington – but “nature” is not always as kind as…
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Why I hate Mother’s Day
On no other day of the year are mums placed under so much pressure to behave “like a mum”. And…
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Leah Hazard Q&A: “Kindness, or even just civility, costs nothing”
The midwife and author on reproductive justice, Scottish winters and the healing power of Strictly Come Dancing.
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The other side of the gas and air maternity scandal
Amid the righteous distress of pregnant women, we mustn’t forget that midwives are women too.
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Childcare costs are failing mothers and the economy
New figures show the cost of full-time childcare has reached £15,000, which could be pushing thousands more women out of…
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