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		<title>Life Begins at 40</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Holly VAnderhaar I love being in my 40s. No, really. I do. It’s not all a bed of roses, of course. I don’t love all the gray hair (or the cost involved in hiding it), and I’m not crazy about the tendency of body parts to expand and/or move southward. I expected to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interracial Marriage on the Rise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Amy Wise A report just came out from the PEW Research Center on Interracial Marriage. Much of the media reported on the study. Our family was part of the story in USA Today and the L.A. Times. After being together for 20 years and married for 19, we don&#8217;t think of each other as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenextfamily.com/2012/02/interracial-marriage-on-the-rise/</link>
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		<title>He&#8217;s in the Navy Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Tanya Dodd-Hise The other day, maybe two weeks ago at most, I get a phone call from the oldest boy (the 20-year-old).  When I answer the phone with my sing-songie “Hellooo-ooo-oooo,” he laughs and says, “Hey Mom!  I’ve got something to tell you!” Freeze frame. Picture it, if you will.  Me, standing at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiger Mom vs. Mama Bear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Meika Rouda I just finished the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua. It is unlike any parenting book I have ever read. Chua is the daughter of Chinese immigrants and has three sisters; she and two of her sisters have multiple Harvard and Yale degrees and her youngest sister, who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenextfamily.com/2012/02/battle-hymn-of-a-tiger-mother/</link>
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		<title>Pretty in Pink</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Shannon Ralph May I rant for a moment? As you may or may not know, my twins are in kindergarten. Kindergarten, as a general rule, is a fun place to be. One of the fun things they are doing this year is having two weeks of “color days.” Each day is assigned a color [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenextfamily.com/2012/02/whats-wrong-with-pink-for-little-boys/</link>
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		<title>It Is Not Always Good News . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week was a rough one on the surrogate front. Everything is fine for me, no worries, but I can&#8217;t say the same for a few other ladies. I can&#8217;t talk about the specifics in two cases as no final decisions have been made, but my heart goes out to the IPs and surrogates who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenextfamily.com/2012/02/surrogate-and-intended-parents-and-tragic-loss/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Soaking In It!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: John Jericiau It’s hard to be masculine in a world dominated by the feminine. I’m talking of course about the world of the stay-at-home parent, which has been my world for the last 5 years and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. Sometimes no matter how hard I try, there are times [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenextfamily.com/2012/02/being-masculine-in-a-feminine-world/</link>
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		<title>A Lot of Excitement in New Delhi!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hauz Khaus market area was beautiful, lush, green and quiet. We enjoyed our time there; we ate bagels and cream cheese and peeked in the beautiful vintage shops. We were not there to shop, just enjoy the day as a family. The outside of the market area contained the tombs of a ruler from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenextfamily.com/2012/02/surrogacy-in-india-5/</link>
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		<title>Interview with Tosha Woronov</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Interview with Tosha Woronov, TNF Managing Editor, by The Next Family TNF: How has it been blogging for TNF? It’s so important to me. I love that I have this small collection of stories to mark my life as a mother. It goes by so fast as we all know, and anything I can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenextfamily.com/2012/02/interview-with-tosha-woronov/</link>
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		<title>Hope? Nope.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: Ann Brown Clearly, it is just a myth that if you get enough sleep, eat a healthy diet, get daily exercise and think noble thoughts, you will wake up each morning at the crack of dawn, bound out of bed and face the new day with a smile and a toned pelvic floor. Not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thenextfamily.com/2012/02/are-you-afraid-to-succeed/</link>
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