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Louise Meriwether: A Life of Writing and Activism

Dr. Brenda M. Greene, executive director of the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, writes about Brooklynite Louise Meriwether, a civil rights movement activist and prolific author and journalist. ....

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When you don't agree with your fiancé's parenting: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.


Dear Care and Feeding,
I recently got engaged to a man who has two children from his prior marriage. The children are 7 and 9 and my fiancé has them part of the time, but they spend the majority of their time with their mother. At the beginning of our relationship, my fiancé set clear expectations: he wouldn’t introduce me to the children unless our relationship became serious; if it did, he would be making all parenting decisions. He said he’d had difficulties with his ex-wife around the issue of parental decision-making, and the conditions he set for us seemed reasonable to me. ....

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