The Family Weekly

The Family Weekly: Inside the Lives of Child Instagram Influencers

Plus: The myth of the home cooked meal, and the real danger the ‘Momo’ hoax distracts from

• Amal Ahmed
• Mar 1, 2019

The Family Weekly: The Consequential Legal Battle Over One Dallas Family’s Adoption

Plus: How much leisure time is too much?

• Amal Ahmed
• Feb 22, 2019

The Family Weekly: Introducing the Friendship Files

Plus: Dispatches from a wedding expo, and inside the lives of a mother-daughter team at the Westminster Dog Show

• Amal Ahmed
• Feb 15, 2019

The Family Weekly: How Facebook Created a New Type of Relationship

Active-shooter drills are demanding a lot of maturity from young students, and the economics that drive different parenting styles

• Amal Ahmed
• Feb 8, 2019

The Family Weekly: Many Families May Need Months to Recover From the Shutdown

Plus: living paycheck to paycheck as a single mom, and why grandparents give so much money to their grandkids

• Amal Ahmed
• Feb 1, 2019

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

• Amal Ahmed and Natalie Escobar
• Jan 25, 2019

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

• Natalie Escobar and Amal Ahmed
• Jan 18, 2019

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

• Natalie Escobar
• Jan 11, 2019

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

• Natalie Escobar
• Jan 4, 2019

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

• Natalie Escobar
• Dec 28, 2018

Family Weekly: How Tinder Sparked a Dating Revolution

How companies will be able to monitor life at home, the origins of a holiday must-have: the weighted blanket, and how millennials are keeping family holiday cards alive

• Saahil Desai
• Dec 22, 2018

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

• Natalie Escobar
• Dec 15, 2018

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”

• Natalie Escobar
• Dec 1, 2018

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

• Natalie Escobar
• Nov 24, 2018

The Family Weekly: Why Everyone You Know Is Hosting a ‘Friendsgiving’

Plus: when families un-adopt a child, digital reminders of a lost pregnancy, and a millennial who wants to stop living with relatives

• Saahil Desai
• Nov 17, 2018

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

• Natalie Escobar
• Nov 10, 2018

The Family Weekly: The Health Crisis for Black Moms in Georgia

Plus: apologizing for a sexual assault, refusing to give in to fear, and ads in kids’ apps

• Natalie Escobar
• Nov 2, 2018

The Family Weekly: Do Dogs Really Need Their Own Pumpkin-Spice Lattes?

Plus: the families where everyone is behind bars, and the ongoing debate about cohabitation and divorce

• Natalie Escobar
• Oct 27, 2018