Featured Sister’s Letters
Todd and Sarah Palin on Daughter
Todd and Sarah Palin say their 17-year-old unmarried daughter Bristol is pregnant. The couple said in a statement released by John...
How To Be Grateful, When There Is Nothing To Be Grateful For
This past year I was in a job that nearly killed me. Every morning I dreaded going into work. The weekends were no better; I spent Saturday and...
Mom To A Teenage Mother
My eldest daughter had been rebellious for several years so when she told me that she was pregnant at seventeen, my reaction was calm. It was the...
No One Can Legally Make You!
Recently a woman in Florida gave birth in her bathroom and hid her baby under the sink. This was her second pregnancy; during her first, she was...
Drawing the Line
Some people have been wondering what I mean by "unspoken set of rules." In my last column, I mentioned that having a set of rules for yourself...
To Expecting Mothers: A Perspective on Pain
Trying to avoid pain is perfectly natural, and like most instincts, our society shamelessly encourages it. Think of commercials on TV. For every...
Brian’s Searching Found His Mother
A mother is she who can take the place of all others, but whose place no one else can take! Love, BrianAbove is a quote sent to me by my son. A son...
Don’t Judge Me
"I'm way too young to have a baby," said my little sister, and she is quite right. Fifteen is too young. So is nineteen. So is twenty-four, and...
What Women Want
The out-of-wedlock birth rate among women with no more than a high-school education has skyrocketed since the 1960s but remains very low among...








