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September 8, 2023
Elliot Haspel
The Cost of Childcare Is About to Explode
If Congress allows billions in childcare relief to expire in three weeks, parents are going to pay the price.
August 11, 2022
Cassandra Robertson
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Tara McGuinness
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Monée Fields-White
Raising Young Kids in America Has Become Hell, and the Government Should Finally Acknowledge That
The federal government is pretty good at handling the unique problems of seniors. Why don't we do the same for parents and kids?
July 26, 2022
Anna Altman
Lynne Tillman’s Solitary, Raw Memoir of Caring for Her Mother
53 million Americans are caregivers to a family member. How can an experience so common so often remain in the shadows?
December 21, 2021
Liza Featherstone
Climate Change Is a Generational Conflict. That Means the Holidays Could Get Really Heated.
For young people, climate politics are understandably personal.
September 23, 2020
Magazine
Lidija Haas
Miranda July Takes on the Rigged System
In her new film, “Kajillionaire,” a family tries to slip free of capitalism.
May 10, 2020
Tasmiha Khan
Something’s Got to Give for the Work-From-Home Parent
Am I being a bad mother if I’m not giving my son full attention? A bad employee? Both?
May 7, 2020
Magazine
Liza Featherstone
The Pandemic Is a Family Emergency
How the coronavirus exposes a crisis of care work
June 4, 2019
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Choose Your Own Family
Would the world be a better place if we raised children collectively?
June 1, 2016
Kathryn Joyce
The Truth About China’s Missing Daughters
A new book debunks the myth that Chinese parents favored sons.
September 10, 2015
Elaine Teng
When Family Is the Thing You Can't Escape
July 14, 2015
Kathryn Joyce
Why Does Open Adoption Rarely Work?
June 25, 2015
Libby Copeland
Who Owns the Dead?
For decades, Americans have been increasingly distanced from the dead. A small group of women is working to change that.
June 12, 2015
Matt Bruenig
Bernie Sanders's Family-Friendly Agenda Crushes the Competition
The Vermont senator believes every American should get paid vacation. But he can do even better than that.
May 28, 2015
Rebecca Traister
“You Cannot Claim to Have Any Ideas About Family Values Unless You Value Fathers”
May 12, 2015
Danny Vinik
Goldman Sachs Is Right: Millennial Moms Still Run Households
May 8, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Welfare Is the Best Weapon Against Nepotism
April 9, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Don't Assume You Know Why That Couple Doesn't Have Kids
March 4, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Marco Rubio and Mike Lee Want You to Have Kids—Unless You're Poor
February 5, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Pick-Up Artists and Pro-Family Conservatives Agree: Women Only Marry for Money
December 11, 2014
Elaine Teng
We Might Ditch Our Friends For Relationships, But Not Our Parents
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