Motherhood Around the World

Irene Edwards talks about open-faced sandwiches, dark winters, and swimming in your underwear.

On earthquakes, cram schools, and after-dinner massages with friends.

Stephanie Vainer talks about fishing for family dinners, Native TikTok, and forest schools that encourage "risky play."

Mumbai-based Gopika Kapoor describes arranged marriages, a deep reverence for grandparents, and raising a child with autism in India...

"Waiters have brought me glasses of water, unprompted, when they've noticed me breastfeeding. It’s so nice to have that public support.”

A mother in Western Cape talks about popular snack foods and the one wild animal her son knows not to mess with.

"Welsh children are not at all excited by sheep. They're like, yeah, whatever."

A mother talks about her country's three-year maternity leave, the joy of thermal baths and the biggest conversation starter in public.