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PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

• By Kate Wheeling
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An unplanned child used to derail the education of girls in the country, but a new approach is helping young mothers stay in school.

• By Corinne Redfern

Across the country, people are becoming unexpected caregivers of children whose parents have become addicted to opioids. In most states, they're doing it with little to no help at all.

• By James McCandless

In Morocco, illegitimate children have no papers, no last name, and are vulnerable to trafficking, but some devoted caregivers have found a way to give them a better life.

• By Ali Berrada

A collection of our best stories for you during the holiday.

• By Ian Hurley

There were some 100 anti-LGBTQ bills released in various states in the first few months of 2017 alone, including religious exemptions in the workplace and restricted access to health care for LGBTQ citizens.

• By Elizabeth Morehead

They can feel as lifelike as virtual reality, but memories represent unreachable places.

• By Elisa Gabbert

This Thanksgiving, skip the extra beer and take the higher ground in your family debate; chances are, your relatives will follow your example.

• By Jared Keller

A mother reflects on raising her three children alone.

• By Michele Weldon

My brother has Down syndrome and happens to be non-verbal. I've spent 20 years learning new ways to listen.

• By Lyz Lenz

New research finds body odor is less disgusting if we share an identity with the smelly person in question.

• By Tom Jacobs

It depends on their attitudes toward risky sex, pregnancy, and birth control, a new study finds.

• By Nathan Collins

A frustrating, but ultimately fulfilling, father-daughter surf adventure in El Salvador.

• By Zachary Slobig

There are many reasons people still do it—and to misunderstand them is to misunderstand the possibilities of the modern family.

• By Amanda Kolson Hurley

An early education in the hollowness of patriotic performance.

• By Jacqui Shine

How a small piece of technology had a human-sized impact on a mother's relationship to her child.

• By Jocelyn Wiener

One reporter marvels over how the things he cherishes most about his parents aren’t those that he would have ever imagined.

• By Charles Ornstein

If the unwelcome death of her uncle taught Emily Mullin anything it's that our lives are transient and largely out of our control.

• By Emily Mullin

How does it feel to be the biological parent of your sister's child or the aunt of the children you birthed? Americans are finding out.

• By Rachel Rabkin Peachman

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to print and digital magazine subscribers.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

As a kid, Rachael Maddux thought she could shut herself away from the reality of death. Instead, through Reader’s Digest, she came face to face with the fragility of life.

• By Rachael Maddux

A look at how marriage, co-habitation, domestic violence, and birth rates were influenced by the economic struggles of the 2000s.

• By Philip N. Cohen

Forget how friends, family, and others feel. People even tend to view their partners more favorably than their partners view themselves.

• By Eric Horowitz