A personal, essayistic newsletter by an Italian mother reflecting on motherhood, class, and the economics of having children, drawing on a survey of over ten thousand women about children they never had. It argues against outrage-driven social media debate in favour of patient, evidence-based 'inventory' of the realities of parenting.
Website: https://francescabubba.substack.com
A personal essay newsletter by a writer in their thirties who blends humor, candid self-reflection and personal anecdotes about anxiety, motherhood and identity. Issues mix self-deprecating comedy with more serious essays on gender, friendship and social pressure.
Essays on the hardest parts of modern motherhood and childhood, framed through evolutionary biology, hunter-gatherer anthropology and developmental research. Recent issues cover play deficits, early education and the global learning crisis, and the lack of leisure for mothers.
A working mom in Los Angeles writes candidly about building a small business (Parcel Air travel boxes for kids) while job hunting and tracking her family's finances in public. Readers get personal narrative with concrete numbers, setbacks, and operational details of running an e-commerce side business.
A women's magazine written from France that offers personal, memoir-style essays on marriage, motherhood, family life, travel and the labour of running a household. Issues are built around a single place or moment, such as Saint-Émilion, Milk or Sai Kung, and told in a vivid, sensory first-person voice.
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