Isabel Fattal
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Chet Strange / Getty High School Was Different Before Columbine
The year 1999 is, for many, a bright line dividing two divergent teen experiences.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters New Zealand Went More Than 20 Years Between Mass Shootings
There have been at least 90 mass shootings in America in that time.
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Cathal McNaughton / Reuters A Brief History of Anti-Semitic Violence in America
The synagogue attack in Pittsburgh may be the deadliest attack against Jews in American history—but it’s nowhere near the first.
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Dinuka Liyanawatte / Reuters The Family Weekly: Are Parents Responsible for Their Children’s Choices?
Plus: motherhood in the midterm elections, and repairing a mother-son bond
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Gene J. Puskar / AP The Family Weekly: Daniel Tiger and the Legacy of Mister Rogers
Plus: Americans’ surprisingly tame fantasies, and the wedding invitation that never arrived
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Reuters / Tim Wimborne The Family Weekly: The Days of ‘Peak Family Road Trip’
Plus: the emotional entanglements of sperm donation, and how to raise a generous child
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Denis Balibouse / Reuters The Family Weekly: Do Ultimatums Work?
Plus: when trans children don't get the support they need
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Marcos Brindicci / Reuters The Family Weekly: When ‘Follow Your Passion’ Isn’t Enough
Plus: the complexities of female friendships, and how to parent an angry adult son
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Dinuka Liyanawatte / Reuters The Family Weekly: The Complexities of Parenting Kids Who Say They’re Trans
Plus: the dangers of a no-hugging policy, and panic over turning 50
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Family Weekly: Why Are Father’s Day Cards So Predictable?
Plus: the limitations of boyhood, and how to stop a sibling rivalry
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Gene J. Puskar / AP The Family Weekly: Speaking “Freddish” With Mr. Rogers
Plus: the anxieties that can come with being an LGBTQ parent, and the story of the 'stuck kids' of Illinois
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Charles Dharapak / AP The Family Weekly: Delayed Gratification
Revisiting the famous marshmallow test. Plus, the rise of "grandfamilies.”
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Loren Elliott / Reuters The Family Weekly: How Can School Shootings Be Prevented?
Lessons from incidents that were thwarted—and some that weren't
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Toby Melville / Reuters The Family Weekly: Something Borrowed
A sperm-donor search and a fairy-tale wedding
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Brian Snyder / Reuters MIT Now Has a Humanist Chaplain to Help Students With the Ethics of Tech
Greg Epstein wants the next wave of entrepreneurs to start considering the implications of their work.
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Dinuka Liyanawatte / Reuters The Family Weekly: Barn Weddings, Baby Names, and Big Decisions
Highlights from this week’s coverage on relationships and family life -
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Susan Walsh / AP The NRA Is Still a Staple of Daily American Life
Even as the Parkland shooting has energized gun-control advocates, the organization’s youth programming continues to draw teens across the country.
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Victor Ruiz / Reuters The Family Weekly: Care and Compromise
Highlights from this week’s coverage on relationships and family life -
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Michael Probst / AP The Family Weekly: Ch-Ch-Changes
Highlights from this week’s coverage on relationships and family life -
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Reuters The Value of Failing
A new research center at Columbia University is committed to figuring out how to turn failure into success.
