For the women who mother, the women who don’t, and the ones still figuring it out.

When I was a little girl, I lived in a two-parent household with a stay-at-home mom. It was a world of routines, care, and presence. So when I started school and teachers asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I had an answer ready: a mom.

Even in the ’90s, that answer drew strange looks. It was seen as short-sighted, outdated….peculiar.

To aspire to …