Whether you’re looking for help and information about your parents or as a parent or guardian yourself, this section’s got it covered. It includes information for parents or guardians of every age, including teen parents, and for parenting toddlers to teens. You’ll also find help here with family planning, like working out if now is or isn’t a good time for you to become a parent in the first place.
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Halia
My father and I don't have the best relationship but he continually forces me to give him hugs, kisses, etc. even after I say no. It really bothers me, even if it is just a kiss on the cheek. He also...
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My father isn't respecting my personal boundaries.
- Heather Corinna
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- Sam Wall
What do you do when you don’t like your kid’s new partner?
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- Sam Wall
Many trans or gender non-conforming youth come to us looking for support they’re having difficulty finding, or don’t feel safe looking for elsewhere.
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- Natasha Vianna
As a young parent, being shamed for the decisions you have made and being stigmatized for your identity makes navigating through the world – and pregnancy and parenting – much more difficult.
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- Idzie Desmarais
There seems to be the almost universal belief among North American parents (I’m sure this is a phenomena found elsewhere as well, but I’m just talking about what I’ve personally seen) that their kids, whether these are theoretical future children or actual kids, and whether they have yet to reach…
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- Heather Corinna
I don’t think making condoms available is “condoning” sex. If providing condoms, all by itself, sends any primary message, I think the message is that were he to engage in sex, you think preventing unwanted pregnancy and the transmission of sexually transmitted infections is really important. I don…
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- Melissa Busch
“Do you have any children…?” It’s such a typical question to ask someone, and for many it’s an easy yes or no answer. For me though, I consistently find myself hesitating to respond. Generally when speaking to strangers, casual acquaintances, and even new friends, I opt to answer “no.” On occasion, I brave the consequences and answer the truth: “Yes, I’m a birthmother.”
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- Heather Corinna
A baby isn’t a bargaining chip. A baby is a very small, but very whole, person. Just like me, just like you. And a child deserves to be considered as a whole, actual person, not as an object to possibly get you what you want for yourself. What I hear you saying is that you are now feeling a very…
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- Sarah Riley
Breastfeeding can have a variety of impacts on one’s periods. Some people will start having periods again soon after birth (even if they are breastfeeding). Others may not start having periods again for 6 months or more. Some never have a period until they stop breastfeeding entirely. This is really…
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- Heather Corinna
It doesn’t make any sense to presume infertility until you have had fertility tests done. At least once a week or two, I sit in the clinic I also work at counseling someone for an abortion procedure who was told or had the idea that they were infertile, and who didn’t get tested to make sure that…
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- Sarah Riley
(Emily’s question continued) Anyway, I keep thinking about being pregnant, wanting a baby and hoping and hoping I get pregnant. I hate thinking this way, because we aren’t really ready for that yet, but I can’t stop. Is there really any reason I would have this motherly urge? We always have…
