Amy Reiter has written for The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Glamour, Marie Claire, Wine Spectator and Time Out New York Kids, among other print publications, as well as for sites including Salon, AOL/Huffington Post, Babble and the Barnes & Noble Review. Her work has been anthologized in the book Maybe Baby and the e-book Welcome to My World and honored with a MADD Media Award.

As the new blog Dadding boldly enters the booming mommy blogosphere, writer Amy Reiter asks: why are women still defined by motherhood?