Topic: Real Families (page 2)

Real Families is a personal-essay series that celebrates the surprising and ever-shifting nature of domestic life in the 21st century. If you have a fascinating, original story you'd like to share, email life@salon.com.

Graduates

"Just be yourself" is nonsense

Jesse Browner

Family

"Are you the nanny?"

Krystal A. Sital

Princess Dress

My daughter's 23 days as Elsa

Vanessa McGrady

Grandmother

My beauty conflicts

Sarah Tomlinson

Woman Looking Into Car

I also left my kid in the car

Compiled by Salon staff

Baby Booties

She was my baby, too

Bridget Foley

Child Asleep in Car

The rise of mother shaming

Author Photo

When people pray for my wife

Mark Phillips

Broken Mom Cookie

I can’t forgive my mother

Laura Bogart

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Caring for a mom with dementia

George Hodgman

High Heels

My husband, the woman

Diana Matthews

Public School

Public schools: Why my kids go

Jessica Gregg

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Strange way back to my mother

Anis Gisele

Image for If you’re not a good girl, I’m going to leave

All the people who leave me

Tammy Delatorre

Image for This is my blood: Why a former punk rocker agreed to raise her daughter Catholic

Our unlikely Catholic baptism

Lily Burana

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Fights with my mom, the cop

Jen Fitzgerald

Image for The Indian wedding that exploded in violence

A most violent Indian wedding

Ranbir Singh Sidhu

Image for How I became homeless

How I became homeless

Image for I fought (and lost) the battle against Christmas

My battle against Christmas

Caren Chesler

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My mother's purge includes me

Christine Schoenwald

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My parents in the after-life

Amber Hubert

Image for My drugged life: I've been on antidepressants since 10

My drugged life

Will Barrett

Image for An ordinary girl born into a family of witches

Born into a family of witches

Diana Wagman

Needle, Spoon

Doing heroin with my dad

Jacqueline Burt Cote

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