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Why Your Kid Should Be a Rebel
Teaching children to break the rules constructively can have tremendous benefits for society.
The Isolating Life of Parenting a Potential Psychopath
They say it takes a village to raise a child, but what do you do when the village shuns you?
Why It Feels So Terrible to Drop Your Kid at College
The freedom of adulthood makes parents lose touch with dread, and emptying the nest offers a certain, and sometimes unwelcome, return to it.
Dear Therapist: My Mom Used to Abuse Me. Should I Keep Her in My Life?
Everyone tells me she should be there for the birth of my child, but I just don’t trust her.
How Fertility Apps Exclude Fathers
Making a baby “the old-fashioned way” is a two-person job, but many apps aimed at heterosexual couples assign all the work of getting pregnant to women.
There’s No Innocent Way to Ask Your Son or Daughter About Grandkids
Fertility is a deeply private topic, often better left alone. But if aspiring grandparents want to raise the question, it’s best done with sensitivity.
In a little town in Oaxaca, the sea is said to teach humans how to live and die.
U.S. immigration policy has traumatized migrant children and parents for nearly a century.
The Strange, Unique Intimacy of the Roommate Relationship
More and more American adults are sharing their homes with people other than family members or spouses—an arrangement that can be anywhere from harmonious to downright hostile.
Dear Therapist: My Husband Keeps Texting With a Female ‘Friend’
He’s lying about it, too. What should I do?
The Doctor Doesn’t Listen to Her. But the Media Is Starting To.
Physicians have long dismissed or downplayed women's sexual- and reproductive-health concerns—but in 2018, stories about "health-care gaslighting" are consistently breaking through to the mainstream.
In a Second, the Entire World Shape-Shifts
A woman with a rare neurological disorder details the experience of being lost every day of her life.
Why Aren’t There More Indra Nooyis?
The CEO of PepsiCo is stepping down after spending 12 years of ushering the brand into the future. But the landscape for female executives hasn’t changed all that much.
There’s little to no evidence to show that restricting pregnant women’s activity has any benefits—so why do doctors still prescribe it?
Dear Therapist: My Friend Treats Me Differently Since I Lost Weight
I want to keep up a relationship with her, but she keeps making hurtful comments about my appearance.
Paid Leave From Work Can Help Domestic-Violence Victims Leave Abusers
Sixty percent of victims lost their jobs as a direct result of their abuse.
The Challenge of Finding Homes for Rural America’s Foster Children
The government can only do so much—so religious groups are stepping in.
Everyone Cares About Pregnancy Discrimination
Conservatives and liberals, feminists and anti-abortion activists have teamed up to advocate for pregnant women’s rights in the workplace—but their reasoning is very different.
The Thorny Bureaucracy That Stands Between Detained Children and Their Parents
An immigration lawyer outlines the logistical challenges of family reunification, and why some detainees still face uncertain futures.
In Middle School, ‘You’re Trying to Build a Parachute as You’re Falling’
The director Bo Burnham discusses his new movie, Eighth Grade, and how kids cobble together their identities, on the internet and off.
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