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The Family Weekly: How the American Dream Leads Straight to McMansion Hell
Plus: How to negotiate with your kids like a business professor, and the age of “sharenting” is coming to an end.
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Reuters / Lawrence Bryant The Family Weekly: Do All Newborns Really Look Like Their Dads?
Plus: Private-school parents gone wild, and how to talk to your married friends about being single
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Family Weekly: How the Spelling Bee Ended in an Eight-Way Tie
Plus: What to do when friends choose sides after a divorce, and kids who make ASMR videos online are toeing the line of YouTube’s policies.
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STOCKBYTE / GETTY The Family Weekly: Weekend Weddings Are Cliché. Do It on Tuesday Instead.
Plus: Sesame Street takes on cloudy days, and how to talk to your therapist about the secret you’re hiding from her.
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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.
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(Reuters / Pool) 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?
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Shutterstock / Rawpixel 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.
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(9dream Studio / Shutterstock) 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
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Chet Strange / Getty 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
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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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Kidsada Manchinda / Getty 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
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Mike Segar / Reuters 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?
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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
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The Family Weekly: The College-Admissions Scandal Shows How Broken the System Is
Plus: Teen moms can affect their grandkids’ educational outcomes, and an IRL friendship formed in the “basement” of the internet
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The Family Weekly: America’s Dark History of Native American Assimilation Schools
Plus: Twins who aren’t quite identical or fraternal, and the story of pen pals who have kept in touch in the digital age
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Courtesy of Mia Foos 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
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The Family Weekly: The Consequential Legal Battle Over One Dallas Family’s Adoption
Plus: How much leisure time is too much?
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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
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Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters 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
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Francisco Barria / Reuters 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
