Polly Bergen played the mother of the first female President in ABC's Commander in Chief a few seasons back with a wink to those who remembered her past. Back in 1965 Bergen also played the first female POTUS, in a movie called Kisses for My President.

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First there's the evident unreadiness - you just can't fake that. As Palin's interviews unroll against the backdrop of the unraveling national economic mess, voters of all parties are blanching at the idea that their families' or the nation's future might end up in her hands, fun lady though she...

Six days post-hurricane, the lights came on at my house. Our family became part of the 50.2% (now 64%) of the population of Houston with power, members of a new elite-- temporary, we can hope, and as random as any other. Amazing how quickly things can change: one minute thrown...

This year Labor Day and Women's Equality Day bookend the week: a timely conjunction, since tension over what properly constitutes women's work is the crux of much of our current public discourse.

That concern feeds the babble about baby bumps that fills the celebrity magazines, lies at the root...

"More Women Than Ever Are Childless, Census Finds" read last week's NY Times headline. Both the claim and the rather alarmist phrasing ("more than ever!") may have confused readers who recalled the December 2007 headline for the story on the annual CDC birth data (gathered from birth certificates), which told...

Parents had a big year in 1908 -- our modern Mother's Day had its start that May in a church in West Virginia. Inspired by that service, and in the shadow of a mining disaster that killed many local dads, the first Father's Day followed fast, two months later and...

What's in a mom? On any other day she might smell as sweet, but we give her particular credit (and roses) on the second Sunday of May. It's been this way for 100 years.

Our modern Mother's Day was born a century ago (on May 10, 1908 -- in...

Congratulations to Cate, to Halle, and to all the new Hollywood moms and their families! At 38 Cate is the latest in a long line of later Hollywood moms. Last month it was Halle at 41, before that J.Lo with twins at 38, Salma at 41, Marcia - 44, Tina...

What do Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush, and Michelle Obama have in common? They all began their families at relatively advanced ages. Hillary was 32 when she had Chelsea in 1980, Laura was 35 when the twins arrived in 1981, and Michelle was 34 and 37 at the births of her...