Category: Articles and Essays
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Of Breaths, Challenges and Handing Over the Reins…
“…[M]others and daughters can have a close bond, but should never take it to the level of being best friends…” say Susan Morris Shaffer and Linda Perlman Gordon, co-authors of Too Close for Comfort: Questioning the Intimacy of Today’s New Mother-Daughter Relationship. “A best friend is different than a mother-daughter relationship,” says Shaffer in her…
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Of Alice Miller, Amy Chua, and Parenting as a Way of Growth and Transformation…
A beneficiary of the Civil Rights Era, I entered integration in third grade carrying with me the missive delivered to many middle-class African-American children around the country: “Integration [of schools] offers an opportunity to work even harder. You may sit next to white students, but you will need to prove yourself. You will need to…
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Radio Show | “The Truth About Being Single”
Authors Lakeshia Rivers Ekiegwe and Neva A. Lockhart discuss their book, The Truth About Being Single. So tune in. Part I Part II
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Of Mothers, Daughters, and The Honesty of Time…
To work or not to work? This is the question that plagues mothers across the world, particularly within Western societies. The concern many mothers express is, “Am I hurting my child by returning to work or by working?” Many studies performed in America conclude, regarding this question, that mothers do not harm our children by…