Lindsay King-Miller

The decision to terminate a pregnancy is often informed by the needs of the children a pregnant person is already raising.

She will deal with the repercussions of other people’s dysfunctional relationship with guns, whether she chooses to or not.

I just tell my daughter the truth about my period: I have PMS, my back is killing me, and we’re going to eat a lot of chocolate.

For queer parents like me, meanwhile — although I know that my whiteness and my class affords me a degree of protection from scrutiny and interference — the threat of being deemed an illegitimate parent also serves to silence any discussion of mixed feelings.

We’re always hardest on people who give into our own worst impulses, and I see my own shadow in those parents. I’m an over-sharer too.