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Many postpartum women have violent thoughts involving their infants, but we don't talk about this side effect of motherhood, Shanon Cook says.

Erin Carroll planned to breast-feed both her newborn sons. But like many women with the best intentions, it didn't work out. A new government study finds only a third of new moms achieve their goal of exclusively breast-feeding for three months.

Even as they've grown more comfortable with same-sex or unmarried couples raising children, most Americans still view single mothers as detrimental to society, according to a new poll of attitudes toward the country's soaring number of non-traditional families.

If most new moms would breastfeed their babies for the first six months of life, it would save nearly 1,000 lives and billions of dollars each year, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

There's an article over at The Guardian right now which details the tragic and rather interesting story behind how a movie managed to make £88 its opening weekend in England, setting the all-time record for the lowest grossing film in the country's history. I figured it was going to be something I’d never heard of that was never released in the States, but when I heard it was actually an Uma...

As more women are starting their families in their late 30, 40s and even into their 50s, it's not a given they'll live long enough to meet their grandchildren or see all of their kids' big milestones. Some are making big changes to add years to their life spans.

Throughout the developing world, mothers' sacrifices are typical, and create a problem that puts families at risk, experts say, because malnourished mothers become malfunctioning mothers.

Motherhood is a wonderful responsibility -- but it can also be exhausting, confusing, infuriating and downright funny. "I always say moms have the toughest job in the world if you're doing it right," Oprah Winfrey says. "Today, [women] are spilling the beans about a side of motherhood that hardly anybody ever talks about."