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Family
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
,
Tara McGuinness
,
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.
August 7, 2014
Rebecca Traister
Men Have Every Right to Complain About Parenting
Why we need more men to speak openly about the challenges and joys of raising kids
April 22, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
Quiz: Can You Spot the Difference Between Frank Bruni and Focus on the Family?
April 15, 2013
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Jonathan Cohn
The Hell of American Day Care
An investigation into the barely regulated, unsafe business of looking after our children
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October 1, 2011
David Grann
The Heartbreaking Stories That Filled My Notebook After 9/11
“We’re still hoping.”
August 28, 1989
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Andrew Sullivan
Here Comes The Groom
A (conservative) case for gay marriage
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