A provocative new book from feminist writer Jessica Valenti asks Why Have Kids? It’s a question Jesse Ellison has asked herself and she hoped Valenti would have answers. The title of Jessica Valenti’s ...

When her daughter was born at 28 weeks, leaving mother and child dangerously ill, Valenti felt enormous disappointment and a sense of failure. Not only had she missed a "good birth" resulting in a ...

Even before giving birth, feministing.com founder Jessica Valenti knew, apparently, she would be an expert on “the truth about parenting.” Two days before Valenti was rushed into the hospital to ...

At the ripe old age of (nearly) 23, parenting is not anything I’ve considered seriously beyond occasionally asserting that I would totally have Joseph Gordon Levitt’s babies. My own mother has ...

Jessica Valenti is the author of Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness. She has also written three other books on feminism, including The Purity Myth: How ...