Slate women discuss the moment they discovered that their mothers had lives outside the home.

Laid off men still define themselves through work.

Thanksgiving togetherness—love it or dread it?

My heart did not belong to the people who conceived me.

She made her job at Portfolio her life. Then the magazine folded.

This week Kat, a physical trainer from New York, will undergo intrauterine insemination using sperm from a donor. In this first installment she tells us of how she came to make the decision.