Pregnant from her first sexual encounter, a teenager living in a town of 3,000 Catholics keeps her secret from everyone until six weeks before the baby's due date.
It's not just moms who are struggling with the work-family juggle; more dads are suffering from the stress of unreachable expectations and incompatible commitments.
When Gore's narcissistic mother is diagnosed with stage four lung cancer, she reluctantly moves with her girlfriend and their preschool-age son to New Mexico to help her.
As featured in: BuzzFeed: Ultimate Spring Book Guide, Bustle: Books That Will Help You Balance Your Life, Huffington Post Books, POPSUGAR: Books You Should Read on Your Summer Road Trip, Jenny McCarthy's SiriusXM show, New York Parenting: Summer Reads, Self magazine: Mother's Day Gift Guide, Working Mother: Mother's Day Gift Guide, San Francisco Book Review: Unforgettable Memorial Day Weekend Reads, Culturalist: Best Stories of Moms Balancing It All The Balance Project is a story of loyalty, choices, and balance that will resonate deeply with all women who struggle with this hot-button issue.
Today's pregnancy books may no longer recommend martinis and cigarettes to help pregnant women relax, but most offer moms to be a ton of worthless information-like what kind of fruit your baby is the size of at Week 16.
OG (Old Guy) Dad recounts the adventures of a man who, in the proverbial autumn of his years, or at least the pre pre-autumn, discovers his girlfriend is pregnant.
Her Beautiful Brain is Ann Hedreen's story of what it was like to become a mom just as her beautiful, brainy mother began to lose her mind to an unforgiving disease.
Warrior Mother is the true story of a mother's fierce love and determination, and her willingness to go outside the bounds of the ordinary when two of her three adult children are diagnosed with life-threatening diseases.
Tasting Home is the history of a woman's emotional education, the romantic tale of a marriage between a straight woman and a gay man, and an exploration of the ways that cooking can lay the groundwork for personal healing, intimate relation, and political community.
Most of us today would agree that the children of this new millennium are growing up in a world that is filled with pitfalls and treacherous paths that previous generations have not had to negotiate.
The latest information on gender-specific treatment of addiction and recovery can be found in this go-to manual for parents seeking direction to help their daughters.
By the age of twenty, Joey has OD'd, attempted suicide, quit college, survived a near-fatal car accident, done time behind bars, and been kicked out of rehab.
Based on the author's own experience as a parent with an addicted child, she provides straight-talking self-preservation tools and techniques for parents of addicts in and out of recovery.
In these 23 original stories, mothers and fathers from all walks of lifestraight, gay, single, surrogate, biological, adoptiveexplore the challenges and rewards of parenthood.
The most recent and respected research on how temperament can affect a child's progress toward developmental milestones and responses to new experiences Research shows that many challenging behaviors are connected to a child's inborn temperament, the unique set of characteristics that each child is born with.
This frank study authoritatively and objectively examines the heinous crime of child sexual abuse, explaining how, far from being the stereotypical "e;dirty old man"e; or pedophile, many child molesters aren't so easy to detect.
Offering parents realistic expectations about toddler behavior, this guide provides detailed, how-to advice for teaching kids to share and for intervening when toddlers have difficulty sharing.
As a registered nurse working with psychiatric children and adolescents, Dyan Eybergen thought she was trained to handle just about every behavioral situationuntil she had her own children.
For new babies, there are the first-year milestones that everyone talks aboutbabys first smile, first steps, and first wordsand then there are all the firsts that everyone conveniently forgets to mention.
Stemming from a wealth of both professional and personal experience, this guidebook combines real-life stories of challenges and successes with practical ideas for handling autism, every day.
A straightforward, lighthearted, and research-based parenting book for working parents who want to do the best they can for their children in the time they have together.
The Disabled Woman's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth was a finalist for a 2005 Foreward Magazine Best Book of the Year Award and a 2006 Ben Franklin Award!
