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Erika Larsen for The Atlantic Judy Blume Goes All the Way
A new generation discovers the poet laureate of puberty.
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Bianca Bagnarelli Dear Therapist: My Daughter’s ‘Brother’ Is Actually Her Father
After 30 years, I want to tell her the truth, but I don’t know how.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty Judging Parents Online Is a National Sport
Whether they share their joys or their struggles, parents just can’t win on social media.
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Bianca Bagnarelli Dear Therapist: Can I Cut My Mom Off From My Children If She Won’t Seek Therapy?
She hasn’t been a great parent to me, and I don’t want her repeating those patterns with my future kids.
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic; Irving Haberman / … The Summer-Camp Feeding Frenzy Has Already Begun
The “every family for itself” approach to child care in the U.S. means parents’ options for three months of the year are shelling out for expensive camps, fighting for limited slots in affordable programs, or nothing.
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Jamie Hodgson / Getty Is Defying Parents the Only Ethical Alternative?
Instead of rigid rules, educators need the freedom to finesse delicate questions about young students’ gender identity.
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Simone Lueck / Bloomberg / Getty The Case for Public Child Care
Parents deserve the option.
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Rop van Mierlo Will Children’s Books Become Catalogs of the Extinct?
As an environmental journalist and a parent, I worry that the animals in my son’s bedtime stories will disappear before he learns they’re real.
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Maridelis Morales Rosado / The New York Times … The Married-Mom Advantage
Motherhood during the pandemic wasn’t so miserable after all. But some moms did better than others.
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Getty The Child Tax Credit Was a Little Too Subtle
How $100 billion helped families, changed no votes, and is about to disappear
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The Atlantic The Dilemma of Babies on Airplanes
Hamstrung by the need to ensure that their kids don’t inconvenience anyone else, parents can’t do much parenting at all.
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Bianca Bagnarelli Dear Therapist: How Do I Hold Boundaries With My Sister at Christmas?
I don’t want a relationship with her, but my parents want us to make up.
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Getty Why Doesn’t Every American Have a Robot Dog?
Fake puppies that could move and bark and dance were all the rage in the early 2000s. How is it possible that we live in a society that could fall out of love with such a thing?
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Hannah Yoon / NYT / Redux The Year Without Germs Changed Kids
Children who spent their formative years in the bleach-everything era will certainly have different microbiomes. The question is whether different means bad.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic The ‘Mother of the Year’ Who Starved for 53 Months
In 2014, an octopus made headlines for starving herself while protecting her eggs. Why does she remind me of my mom?
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Netflix The Strength of the ‘Soft Daddy’
A modern generation of animated sitcoms shows a rarity in the genre: well-adjusted fathers.
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Getty; The Atlantic I’m Scared of My Baby Monitor
Baby cams are sold on the notion that something could go disastrously wrong in the nursery.
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Illustration by Alex Cochran The Pandemic Exposed the Inequality of American Motherhood
Rich and poor women had completely different experiences.
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Bettmann / Getty How Much Alone Time Do Kids Need?
Solitude can help children grow, but some might not be getting enough of it.
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic Parents Need Their Own AARP
Raising kids in America is expensive and isolating. A caregivers’ lobby could help.
