'Mothers' Voices' Ad Campaign in Columbia

NPR's radio show This American Life ran a segment about a marketing executive from Colombia named Jose Miguel Sokoloff. The government of Columbia ...

A New Rent-A-Mom Service

Young or old, there are times when all of us need a mother. Like when you get sick for the first time living on your own. Or when you're going through ...

Research on 'Time-Starved' Mothers

Married couples in the United States spend, on average, 130 hours per week on paid and unpaid work combined. But all our hard work is not enough. Research ...

Brené Brown on the Church as Midwife

Popular author and speaker Brené Brown recently described what she called a "breakdown" that propelled her to go back to church. But ...

NFL Star Describes the Mentors Who Helped Him

Professional football player Demaryius Thomas' mother was arrested and sent to prison when Thomas was only 11. "[At the time] my father was in ...

Maya Angelou's Decision to Keep Her Child

In an essay that originally appeared in Family Circle magazine, America's beloved poet Maya Angelou described the birth of her first and only child, ...

Stephen Colbert on Gratitude in Suffering

GQ magazine's interview with talk show host Stephen Colbert explored how he found gratitude in the midst of suffering ("The Late, Great Stephen ...

Novelist Amy Tan on Pressure from Mom

The New York Times interviewed the Chinese novelist Amy Tan, a woman who has written some powerful books about the immigrant and minority experience in ...

Denzel Washington's Mom Teaches Him About Humility

"When I was young and started really making it as an actor, I came and talked to my mother and said, 'Mom, did you think this was going to happen? ...

Actress on Her New Role—Motherhood

Actress Sarah Drew, who has appeared on Grey's Anatomy and in the film Mom's Night Out, had this to say about her new role as a mother:

The stay-at-home ...