The Family Weekly

The Family Weekly: Gay Rats (And Gay Rights)

Mr. Ratburn from Arthur gets married. Plus: A reality-TV contestant says he has 114 kids via sperm donations, and how long-distance relationships are thriving in the digital age.

• Amal Ahmed
• May 17, 2019

The Family Weekly: A Historic Royal Baby Arriveth

Plus: Keeping a mother’s secret from her son, and are you ready for a relationship or afraid of commitment?

• Amal Ahmed
• May 10, 2019

The Family Weekly: Have Millennials Killed Infidelity?

Plus: Your baby’s first word doesn’t mean anything, and what to do if your boyfriend’s mother is a narcissist.

• Amal Ahmed
• May 3, 2019

The Family Weekly: When Families Are Divided On Vaccinating Their Kids

Plus: The rare genetic condition that reshaped a mother’s dreams for her daughter, and segregation in gifted and talented education

• Amal Ahmed
• Apr 26, 2019

The Family Weekly: 20 Years After Columbine

Plus: Long-distance friendships, messy conversations about race with an interracial family, and how to raise a boy

• Amal Ahmed
• Apr 19, 2019

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

• Amal Ahmed and Natalie Escobar
• Apr 12, 2019

The Family Weekly: The Reasons for Declining Young-Adult Happiness

The ethics of the domestic-labor economy, a cross-border friendship, and Lori Gottlieb’s first patient

• Amal Ahmed
• Apr 5, 2019

The Family Weekly: For Survivors of Mass Shootings, There’s No Straight Line to Recovery

Plus: Military families are struggling to make ends meet, and how much homework is too much?

• Amal Ahmed
• Mar 29, 2019

The Family Weekly: This Fertility Doctor Had a Secret. Then DNA Testing Came Along.

Why teenage boys have more free time than teenage girls, and how to talk (productively) to your family about politics when you disagree

• Amal Ahmed
• Mar 22, 2019

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