Have One Child or Many, Just Don’t Plan on Getting What You Expect

June 18, 2013 By 2 Comments

Whether you choose to have one child or many, the children you end up with, and your willingness to embrace them no matter how they differ from the children you expected, will be the most important outcomes of your childbearing decisions.

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How Poverty Affects Vaccination Rates

May 28, 2013 By 2 Comments

Last fall I pointed blog readers to my colleague Rachel Stone’s post on vaccination as an expression of neighborly love. Today, Rachel has a follow-up post of sorts, commenting on a Mother Jones article indicating that poverty and other family issues (such as working parents who struggle to get their kids to the doctor’s office [...]

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How the Story of a Surrogate, Expectant Parents, and a Baby Reveals the Pitfalls of Repro Tech

March 6, 2013 By 8 Comments

Fundamentally, it is simply a sad story, one that took place just a few miles from where I live, in the hospital where I gave birth to two of my own babies. As CNN reports, Connecticut resident Crystal Kelley agreed to carry a baby for a couple who had three children and wanted a fourth. [...]

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