The romantic comedy “Obvious Child” is one of the most talked-about films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Utah. The film stars former Saturday Night Live cast member Jenny Slate as Donna ...

The first thing to know about Obvious Child is that it’s about an abortion, one that isn’t canceled at the last minute or made unnecessary by a conveniently timed miscarriage. That alone makes the ...

Host Alex Cohen recently had a chance to meet SNL alum Jenny Slate and talk about her new film Obvious Child. Romantic comedies and unwanted pregnancies are two topics you might not think belong ...

Much of “Obvious Child” is well-trodden ground for a romantic comedy: it is, in short, the story of a twenty-something woman looking for love, mostly in vain. Donna (Jenny Slate) is an aspiring ...

But when you tell a child that romantic behavior is OK, it's hard to backtrack. If you let a child snuggle with her boyfriend ...

About this time last year, I had “the talk” with my oldest child. We had been informed that the topic of sex would be presented at school in the coming year, and although it was nerve-wracking to ...

Priscilla Gilman, author of The Anti-Romantic Child: A Memoir of Unexpected Joy, and I met online, traveling through similar virtual networks. She sent me a copy of her memoir, which I read and ...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. The romantic comedy “Obvious Child” was one of the most talked-about films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Utah. It is opening in ...