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Zoe Zolbrod remained silent about her early childhood molestation for nearly a decade. When she finally decided to tell, she wasn't sure what to expect or what to say. Through a series of experiences - Zolbrod hitchhikes with a boyfriend from one coast to another, hangs out in a strip club in Philadelphia, meets and marries her husband, and gives birth to her children - she traces the development of her sexuality, her relationships with men, and the cultivation of her motherhood in the shadow of her childhood sexual abuse.

A single mother is more than a woman raising a child without a partner. She is exhausted and self-sufficient, healing and hardworking, and deeply proud of herself and her children. While managing every responsibility alone, single mothers are often told, “Why don’t you just relax?” Between parenting, paying the bills, running a household, staying healthy, maintaining a social or dating life, and getting sleep, there is little time to do so. Stop Telling Me to Relax is a podcast where single mothers share their real, unfiltered stories—the worry, heartbreak, financial strain, ...

For too long, we've thought of fathers as little more than sources of authority and economic stability in the lives of their children. Yet cutting-edge studies drawing unexpected links between fathers and children are forcing us to reconsider our assumptions and ask new questions: What changes...