Social Media Ideas for Firstborn Immigrant Daughter

“You Are the First Thing Your Mother Could Own”: Taiye Selasi’s Fiction Debut in The New Yorker Is a Firstborn Daughter’...

Taiye Selasi has a new story in The New Yorker, and it reads more like a letter than fiction, one woman writing to another who already understands what’s coming. “Dear Firstborn Im...

eldest daughter

The first pair of shoulders her parents leaned on, hoping that someday, those shoulders would be strong enough to change the fate of the…Continue reading on Medium »

The World Needs An Eldest Daughter

If my own family has taught me anything, it’s that a lineage of eldest daughters could be the blueprint for something better.

The World Needs An Eldest Daughter

If my own family has taught me anything, it’s that a lineage of eldest daughters could be the blueprint for something better.

I’m the Daughter of Immigrants. I See Dolly Parton in the Women Who Raised Me

The parallels between Dolly's experiences in Nashville and those who arrive in America from afar are unmistakable

Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter: A Memoir From the Child of a Mail-Order Bride by Katya Suvorova

Every chapter is stamped with its coordinates before a word of it begins. Season, year, the narrator's age, her school grade. Fall, early 2000s, eight years old, third grade. It lo...

First Generation | Laurène Southe | Poetry

  This poem has been previously published in German and translated into English by Literatur und Kritik Nr. 607/608, September 2026, Otto Müller Verlag Salzburg   I walked the eart...

Too Foreign for Home, Too Foreign for Here

On the woman I was before I leftContinue reading on Modern Women »

A bloodline in world's most populous country waits 200 years for its first baby girl

A family in India's Maharashtra state brought a newborn girl home in a flower-decked chariot in late August, celebrating what it says is its first daughter in roughly 200 years.

'I was born in Paraguay and raised in a Japanese community. I came to Israel for love'

This week at Ben-Gurion Airport: A mother and daughter with diverse roots head to Japan with no expectations, and a programmer replaced by AI embraces his newfound freedom

You’ve Heard Of The Motherhood Penalty, But What About The “Daughter Tax”

By Lily Vittayarukskul, Founder & CEO, Waterlily When I was 16, my aunt was diagnosed with terminal colon cancer. She was like a second mother to me and a cornerstone of our fi...

Baby girl born in northern Israel marks first birth of Jewish New Year 5787

"She had a natural birth without pain medication and cooperated amazingly throughout the entire process," said Shift Supervisor and Deputy Midwife Tahrir Masalha.

 In ‘Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother,’ Adia puts the weight of eldest-daughterhood on screen

In ‘Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother,’ Adia explores the complicated expectations placed on daughters and what happens when you

In ‘Lotus Leadership,’ Kamini Ramani Explores What Immigrant Daughters Owe the Mothers Who Taught Them to Be Strong but...

Before any of it, there was a girl on a bus. Kamini Ramani grew up in Bombay, trudging through knee-deep monsoon water to board the Number 122 red double-decker while watching for...

How Minors Derive Citizenship Through Their Parents

The recent news about Rep. Ilhan Omar has focused attention on how an erstwhile alien minor with a green card would have automatically derived citizenship based on the naturalizati...

Daughter Left Everything to Follow Christ. Then It Was Our Turn to Let Go.

NCR Our daughter was still in grade school when friends began suggesting she might have a religious vocation. We initially ignored these comments, but later realized they were com...

My sister’s Iraqi henna party was fabulous. I’m scared my kids won’t have one.

My big sister’s henna party earlier this month was fabulous. Hundreds of relatives danced to Arabic music while an Israeli-Arab singer belted out Iraqi classics. At the night’s pea...

First: Afghan Terror Plot Matriarch Permanently Deported

Raising a Daughter Who Will Never Grow Up

My toddler isn’t expected to live past age 5. How can I give her a good life while she’s still here?

I came to America as a Jewish refugee. For some Jews, I still don’t count.

The author attended yeshiva and lived as a Jew. Still, because her mother wasn’t Jewish, others questioned whether she belonged. -- The post I came to America as a Jewish refugee....

The Books I Wish I Had as an Undocumented Child

Katya Suvorova, the author of Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter, discusses three books she wishes she had as an undocumented child.

Rabbis of LA | Rabbi Taff’s Daughter Follows Her Father’s Footsteps

Second of two parts The post Rabbis of LA | Rabbi Taff’s Daughter Follows Her Father’s Footsteps appeared first on Jewish Journal.

DAUGHTERS OF YANGTZE

In 1938, more than 10 years before “the great leader had announced to the world the founding of the new China, the People’s Republic of China,” young sisters Mingyan and Shuyan lea...

What is the 'Daughter Tax?'

When parents or relatives need care, the financial, professional and personal costs often fall on daughters.