Joe Pinsker
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Spencer Weiner / Getty Oh No, They’ve Come Up With Another Generation Label
How much do members of “Generation Alpha,” or any generation, really have in common?
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Justin Sullivan / Getty The New Valentine’s Day Is Coming for All Your Relationships
The holiday isn’t just for couples anymore. Does that make it better or worse?
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GraphicaArtis / Getty If the Nuclear Family Has Failed, What Comes Next?
Many Americans are reimagining life at home, exploring models of kinship and community that might help more people flourish.
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Lars Poyansky / Shutterstock / Arsh Raziuddin / ... Why People Get the ‘Sunday Scaries’
The end of a weekend has always been unpleasant, but there is something distinctly modern about the anxiety many people feel on the eve of a workweek.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Why Grocery Stores Have Tiny Kid-Size Carts
Giving children their own cart teaches them about courtesy and commerce while building families’ loyalty to the store.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic Do People Crave Foods Their Moms Ate During Pregnancy?
The diets of expectant mothers—from the mundane to the unusual—can become imbued with deep symbolic meaning for their children.
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Runstudio / Getty When Does Someone Become ‘Old’?
It’s surprisingly hard to find a good term for people in late life.
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Toru Yamanaka / Getty Why Icelandic Dads Take Parental Leave and Japanese Dads Don’t
A generous policy is of little use when work culture heavily discourages men from taking time off.
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Annalise Pasztor / The Atlantic What a Billionaire Thinks Every Kid Should Know
And what a child thinks of that advice
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Most Memorable Family and Education Interviews of the Year
Our reporters reflect on the words and ideas that resonated with them in 2019.
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Hurst / Africa Studio / Shutterstock / The ... Slanted Toilets Are the Logical Extreme of Hyperproductivity
A merciless new design aims to cut down on the time workers spend away from their desks.
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The Atlantic There’s No Fun Like Mandatory Office Holiday Fun
Secret Santa gift exchanges at work make many people grinchy—for good reason.
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Courtesy of Jesse Watters A Liberal Mom’s Critical Texts to Her Son, a Fox News Host
Jesse Watters regularly reads messages from his mother aloud on air, exemplifying a political rift present in many American households.
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Ryan Olbrysh The Best Parenting Advice Is to Go Live in Europe
Many Americans are fascinated by the child-rearing practices of other countries, but those practices might be harder to import than they seem.
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Cancan Chu / Getty How Much Inheritance Is Too Much?
Some wealthy parents are concerned that after a certain point, money passed down will be damaging to the next generation.
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Chris J. Ratcliffe / Getty Why Some People Become Lifelong Readers
A lot rides on how parents present the activity to their kids.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Price of Ascending America’s Class Ladder
Being upwardly mobile can come at a cost to people’s relationships with the family, friends, and community they grew up with.
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GraphicaArtis / Getty Why Are American Homes So Big?
The U.S. is in the top tier of house sizes internationally—and it’s not just because of McMansions.
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nimon / Shutterstock / Katie Martin / The ... The Two Most Mysterious Words in Modern Shopping
I investigated the origins of my face wash and stumbled into the peculiar world of private-label products.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Why College Became So Expensive
And what that has meant for America’s middle-class families
