Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.

When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness.

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

Researchers warn us against walking out on married life without a dang good reason.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.