The Family Weekly

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

• Amal Ahmed
• June 7, 2019

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.

• Amal Ahmed
• May 31, 2019

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.

• Amal Ahmed
• May 24, 2019

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
• April 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
• April 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
• April 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
• April 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
• March 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
• March 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
• March 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
• February 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
• February 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
• February 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
• February 1, 2019