Childcare

The U.S. has a rough track record with how it treats new parents, but there are reasons to believe that this could soon be a thing of the past.

Two recent independent reports argue that Medicaid and CHIP could be effectively leveraged to improve early childhood for the 45 percent of American children served by these programs.

A savings and loan group that began in a Nairobi slum gives members economic empowerment, access to childcare, and education for their children.

Once preschool was made free, maternal labor force participation increased.

In June, Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, became only the second head of state in modern history to give birth while in office.

Breast milk offers better nutrition than formula to infants who cannot access their mother's milk. But centers have proliferated, raising other concerns.

Education wonks have an idea to make daycare better; it makes life for the workers who rely on daycare employment a lot worse.

The Trump administration has quietly removed CCAMPIS, a childcare subsidy for student parents attending college, from its 2018 budget. Over one million student parents' ability to afford childcare hangs in the balance.

The rise of shift work has left parents more dependent than ever on round-the-clock daycare, but the under-regulated industry may be putting children at risk.

Men constantly over-estimate their performance in the areas of household work and childcare (and just about everything else too) because society congratulates them for doing these things at all.

New research shows that men and women react differently once the stork comes calling.

Exclusive pumping is becoming more popular among American moms, often seen as a way moms can “have it all.” Meanwhile, the effects on maternal and infant health—and workplace policies—are rarely discussed.