Children

The Ethics of Having Kids in a Climate Crisis

Rivka Galchen’s Mother Lode

Her new memoir explores how having a child makes you a different kind of writer.

Beverly Cleary Is 100. Ramona Quimby Is Timeless.

Cleary's books may feel outdated today, but their appeal lives on.

Child Migrants’ Exhausting Journey to Europe

At the border, families find themselves unable to enter the European Union.

How the World Plays: Photos from the U.K. to Bhutan

Don't Assume You Know Why That Couple Doesn't Have Kids

What Some Conservatives Call Kids Now: "Human Capital"

Libertarians Have a History of Horrifying Views on Parenting

Girls and Boys Don't Need Separate Books

Does a Good Parent Let Her Child Play Alone in the Woods?

In America Today, a 9-Year-Old Girl Can't Play Alone in a Park But She Can Play With an Uzi

Men Have Every Right to Complain About Parenting

Why we need more men to speak openly about the challenges and joys of raising kids

Men Can Be Just as "Maternal" As Women, According to Neuroscience

Kids Can Tell When You're Not Telling the Whole Truth

And they know to act on it

The Wild, Unregulated Business of After-School Programs

How well do you know that soccer coach or piano teacher?

China's One-Child Policy Has Had Some Surprising Consequences for Kids

Big Mother Is Watching You

Technology now lets you spy on your kids all the time. Why you shouldn't.

Have Professional Women Created a Worse World for Their Working Class Peers?

Tests Make Kids Smarter. Let's Give Them More.

Stop Forcing Your Kids to Learn a Musical Instrument