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September 12, 2016
Travis N. Rieder
The Ethics of Having Kids in a Climate Crisis
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.
April 12, 2016
Gwyneth Kelly
Beverly Cleary Is 100. Ramona Quimby Is Timeless.
Cleary's books may feel outdated today, but their appeal lives on.
March 4, 2016
Clio Chang
A senior DOJ immigration official thinks that 3- and 4-year-olds can represent themselves in court.
September 23, 2015
Stephanie Heimann, Alex Shephard
Child Migrants’ Exhausting Journey to Europe
At the border, families find themselves unable to enter the European Union.
April 12, 2015
Sarah Kollmorgen
How the World Plays: Photos from the U.K. to Bhutan
April 9, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Don't Assume You Know Why That Couple Doesn't Have Kids
February 20, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
What Some Conservatives Call Kids Now: "Human Capital"
February 4, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Libertarians Have a History of Horrifying Views on Parenting
November 22, 2014
Glosswitch
Girls and Boys Don't Need Separate Books
November 11, 2014
Britt Peterson
Does a Good Parent Let Her Child Play Alone in the Woods?
August 28, 2014
Alec MacGillis
In America Today, a 9-Year-Old Girl Can't Play Alone in a Park But She Can Play With an Uzi
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
July 25, 2014
Michael Brooks
Men Can Be Just as "Maternal" As Women, According to Neuroscience
June 18, 2014
Elizabeth Winkler
Kids Can Tell When You're Not Telling the Whole Truth
And they know to act on it
December 3, 2013
Hilary Levey Friedman
The Wild, Unregulated Business of After-School Programs
How well do you know that soccer coach or piano teacher?
November 15, 2013
Alice Robb
China's One-Child Policy Has Had Some Surprising Consequences for Kids
October 29, 2013
Judith Shulevitz
Big Mother Is Watching You
Technology now lets you spy on your kids all the time. Why you shouldn't.
September 25, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Have Professional Women Created a Worse World for Their Working Class Peers?
September 25, 2013
Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Tests Make Kids Smarter. Let's Give Them More.

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