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Samuel Aranda / Panos Pictures / Redux The ‘Just Stay Home’ Message Will Backfire
We need less extreme and more nuanced recommendations for navigating life during the pandemic.
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William Gottlieb / CORBIS / Getty The Chart That Reveals Your Kid’s Adult Height
Researchers crunched longitudinal data to provide a simple predictive equation, and a chart.
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Getty Images Why the C-Section Rate Is So High
A doctor and an economist note that doctors are generally paid quite a bit more for a C-section than for a vaginal birth.
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Associated Press / Steven Senne New Evidence on Pot During Pregnancy
An unusually good study examines how marijuana use in pregnancy may affect birth outcomes.
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d3sign via Getty When Parents Try to Do It All, They Do It Poorly
New parents are given a lot of rules to follow, but little guidance for how to choose among them when constrained.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic End the Plague of Secret Parenting
If mothers and fathers speak openly about child-care obligations, their colleagues will adapt.
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Torsten Mangner/flickr Thinking About Pregnancy Like an Economist
How it became clear that I needed to sort through the valuable, and useless, information — on alcohol, prenatal testing, deli meats — for myself.
