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Parenting
October 30, 2019
Elliot Haspel
“Affordable” Child Care Is a Failure of Imagination
The Democrats want to increase public assistance for struggling parents, but child care should be free for all Americans.
August 30, 2019
Elliot Haspel
Millennial Parents Are Failing Their Children
Parents of young kids need to get serious about climate change. And that starts by showing up to vote.
February 25, 2019
Alexis Papazoglou
Is It Cruel to Have Kids in the Era of Climate Change?
Some argue that bringing children into a decaying world is immoral.
December 17, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Is It Ethical to Post Pictures of Your Kids on Instagram?
The app's increasing commercialization is further evidence that no simple joy is uncomplicated when it's on the internet.
October 19, 2017
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Rachel Syme
Mom, Interrupted
Pamela Adlon’s "Better Things" has reinvented the family sitcom.
June 7, 2016
Olivia Solon
Smartphones Won’t Make Your Kids Dumb. We Think.
How vigilant should parents be about the amount and type of screen time their children have access to?
May 17, 2016
Maggie Doherty
Rivka Galchen’s Mother Lode
Her new memoir explores how having a child makes you a different kind of writer.
December 30, 2015
Jeet Heer
Star Wars
Films Are Not About Good vs. Evil. They’re About Bad Parenting.
For all their lofty narratives, the movies are the fruit of a single family tree.
December 18, 2015
Bijan Stephen
Good news, caregivers: If you live in New York City, you’re about to be legally protected from workplace discrimination.
December 16, 2015
Vivien Labaton
Childcare Is So Expensive, Only the Wealthy Can Afford It
November 23, 2015
Kathryn Joyce
The War Over Breastfeeding
Nursing has become a status symbol and new mothers are feeling the pressure to conform.
October 21, 2015
Malcolm Harris
How to Make a Virtuoso Violinist
One mother’s devastating study of 100 musical prodigies
September 9, 2015
Stacia L. Brown
Parenting Shouldn’t Be About Self-Sacrifice, Whatever Your Income
July 23, 2015
Suzy Khimm
The New Nuclear Family
What gay marriage means for the future of parenthood
June 7, 2015
Esther Breger
Paid Leave This Week: Goldman Sachs Doubles Paternity Leave; Prince William Goes Back to Work
May 18, 2015
Allison J. Pugh
Class Matters
What job insecurity does to our kids
May 12, 2015
Danny Vinik
Goldman Sachs Is Right: Millennial Moms Still Run Households
April 9, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Don't Assume You Know Why That Couple Doesn't Have Kids
March 9, 2015
Sarah Kollmorgen
You Weren't Born a Narcissist. Your Parents Made You One.
February 27, 2015
Eric Sasson
This Scientific Breakthrough Could Ruin Conservatives' Final Argument Against Same-Sex Marriage
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