Here’s an idea to boost the labor market: make it possible for the capable, skilled, already adult women who want to work but have problems finding childcare or acceptable workplaces. Forcing people to have children likely will stress the system not strengthen it.

Dealing with an addict is not like dealing with a healthy person. I have an alcoholic family member. I practice what is referred to as healthy detachment for my own well being. It’s really hard at first, but if you set clear boundaries for yourself and what your relationship will entail, the grief subsides like all…

Don’t be disheartened! When I was in high school we also got a lovely black cat who was part Maine coon. He also went missing though no one let him outside. We looked everywhere inside and out for two days. He had slipped between a mattress and the wall and wouldn’t make a peep when we went in and meowed and called.…

I had a csection five months ago. We did skin to skin in the OR. The baby’s nurse and my husband worked together to hold the baby in place and get her latched on so she could eat. She fed for 40 minutes, which was about how long it took for them to finish my surgery. Then I fell asleep because I had been in labor for…