Motherhood News

A first time ever Mother's Day Art event was staged in the foyer reception area of San Francisco's County Jail #2 last Friday, a women-only jail facility located on 7th Street.

They are part of an increasing social trend nationwide - the number of first time mothers in their forties has risen steadily in the last five years.

Motherhood proved to be a life-changing event for actress Kym Whitley. ESSENCE.com caught up with the star to talk about her new reality show on OWN, Raising Whitley .

For every woman lucky enough to fulfil her dream of motherhood, there are many more disillusioned women like me who remain childless.

Kim, 32, is expecting the couple's first child in July and while Kanye, 35, has a European tour planned for later this year, he will take his girlfriend and baby on the road with him.

Mary DeMuth recently critiqued the popular "smoking hot wife" line, pointing out that for the many Christian wives recovering from experiences of sexual abuse, this kind of imperative makes the difficult path towards healthy intimacy even harder.

Kim Kardashian is receiving love from abroad. British pop star Cheryl Cole sent a touching message via WhoSay to the expecting mother Thursday.

Considering the 700,000-plus live birth rate in the country, it is calculated that the prevalence of obstetric fistula is 0.3 to 0.6 every 1,000 deliveries For many women in rural Nepal, motherhood comes at a cost.

Shakira has confirmed that she won't be returning as a coach on "The Voice" next season.

I realize some of you may be offended by this, but I'm going to say it anyway: happy belated Mother's Day! Some of you may think it's an odd thing to be offended over, but I've been reading that some women feel excluded or otherwise offended by the celebration of motherhood.

Women should be able to decide how many kids they have - even if it means eating a couple to cut down the numbers.

Having just observed Cupcake's 27th Mother's Day it gives me pause to reflect on the whole institution of motherhood.

Shakira is leaving "The Voice" after one season, to concentrate on motherhood and her new record.

For a few years in high school, Janieta Eyre stopped speaking, from a combination of depression and shyness.

What does it mean, bodily, physically, emotionally, mentally, and perhaps spiritually, to be what Simone de Beauvoir deemed "the second sex," to be a woman and, moreover, to be a mother? These are questions that Chelsea Knight explores in her latest video work "The Breath We Took" , now on view at Aspect Ratio.

After a full 40 years of dissecting motherhood as some miraculous, unreachable quandary, college grads and career girls are making the move to motherhood more than ever before in this country's history.

Monica Cruz became a mum for the first time after giving birth to a baby girl in Madrid on Tuesday.

In today's America, a single woman facing a surprise pregnancy is likely to consider just two options: abortion or single motherhood.

Mulheron knows teen moms have higher dropout rates than the average student. She knows she is less likely to go to college, graduate and earn a livable wage.

Camille Graves, with her son Micah, 13, underwent a few years of infertility treatments in hopes of having a third child.