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Is the startup world OK with motherhood yet?

by Kai Ryssdal
Mar 15, 2019
Journalist Eliza Boyd says the “needle is moving” when it comes to pregnancy and venture capital.
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Busting the motherhood myth of "having it all"

by Amy Scott and Bennett Purser
Nov 15, 2018
A journalist and parent digs into how our ideas of motherhood came about in the U.S.
A cropped version of journalist Amy Westervelt's book.
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"Why can't I make ends meet? Why can't I make this math work?"

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Jun 28, 2018
In her new book, Alissa Quart examines the lives of middle-class families struggling to get by.
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Working as a nurse but wishing to be a mom

by Emily Henderson
Sep 6, 2017
Joy O'Brien is a nurse practitioner who wants children, but with $2,100 a month in student debt, she can't afford to adopt.
A patient has her blood pressure checked by a registered nurse practitioner during a checkup in Wellington, Florida.
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