Natalie Escobar
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Smolaw / Shutterstock The Reasoning Behind the SAT’s New ‘Disadvantage’ Score
The CEO and vice president explain what they’re hoping to accomplish by factoring adversity into the standardized test.
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WGBH / PBS Kids How a Gay Character on Arthur Reflects Changing Norms in the U.S.
This week, PBS portrayed a same-sex relationship on a children’s TV series—and got much more positive feedback than the last time it tried.
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Frank Augstein / AP The New Royal Baby’s Historical Significance
As norms around family life have shifted over the centuries, so have the royals.
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Courtest of Alana Semuels The Family Weekly: Is School Desegregation in Boston Still Possible?
Plus: Why friends are replacing priests at weddings, and touching people might be good for you
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Joe Raedle / Getty The Time Crunch on Standardized Tests Is Unnecessary
The allegedly fraudster parents in the cheating scandal exploited extra-time accommodations. Could slowing down tests for everyone make them fairer?
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Steven Senne / AP 9 Revealing Moments From the College-Admissions Indictment
Anecdotes from the Department of Justice’s indictment show the lengths that parents will go to buy their kids’ way into selective colleges.
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Dan Kitwood / Getty / Thanh Do / ... The Wedding-Industry Bonanza, on Full Display
Young couples attend wedding expos to plan their big day—and quickly learn the steep price of a perfect wedding.
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Martin Godwin / Contributor The Family Weekly: Why Women Still Have to Wait Longer for Public Bathrooms
Plus: a dispatch from the March for Life, love letters read aloud, and a disappointing Christmas gift
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Michaela Rehle / Reuters The Family Weekly: What People Actually Say Before They Die
Plus: selling the family home, parents playing favorites with children, and helping an anxious sibling
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Mike Coppola / VF18 / Getty The Family Weekly: How Super-Wealthy Couples Get Divorced
Plus: why kids tell such awful jokes, the personality trait that “oils the gears of social interaction,” and how to deal with negative feedback at work
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Joe Russo / AP The Family Weekly: Let’s Create a New Holiday
Plus: the dilemma of “white-sounding” names, the case against going out for New Year’s Eve, and moving past a “ruined” wedding
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Brandy Jackson / Getty The Family Weekly: Paying Kids to Do Chores Is a Very American Thing
Plus: finding a way through an unspeakable loss, families’ weird holiday traditions, and a question about parents who don’t share their wealth fairly
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Andy Reynolds / Getty The High-Stakes World of Christmas Tamales
“Tamales are different not just from country to country, but also from region to region and even from abuela to abuela.”
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Dan Bransfield Families’ Weird Holiday Traditions, Illustrated
The silliest, most unique winter holiday rituals submitted by The Atlantic’s readers.
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Michael Probst / AP The Family Weekly: The Stress of Upholding the Santa Myth
Americans’ obsession with paper towels, the joys of no-gift Christmas, and the confusing request for ‘space’ in relationships
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Joshua Lott / Getty The Charter-School Teachers’ Strike in Chicago Was ‘Inevitable’
The move could signal a shift in the long, contentious relationship between teachers’ unions and these privately run schools.
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Leon Neal / AFP / Getty The Family Weekly: How Americans Started Throwing Parties for Everything
Plus: parents’ gender preferences for children, the changing ways LGBTQ youth come out to their family, and a conversation about “emotional labor”
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Andreea Alexandru / AP The Changing Ways Parents React to Their Kids Coming Out of the Closet
A conversation with the sociologist Mary Robertson on how some queer youth are pleasantly surprised with the lack of family drama the news causes.
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Matthew Mead / AP The Family Weekly: Why Does Life Feel Like It’s Speeding Up?
Plus: the men who get vasectomies together, the correct time to eat Thanksgiving dinner, and how to rethink an emotionally unfulfilling relationship
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Don Brinn / AP The Family Weekly: He Was a Cop Fighting the ‘Drug War.’ Then His Daughter Overdosed.
Plus: the effects of spanking kids, struggling with a decade-old secret, and the ballooning number of American bridesmaids
