Parenting

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.

Three new books explore how and why our society is structured to make being a mother so hard.

A conversation with Integrated Schools founder Courtney Everts Mykytyn about why parents trump policy when it comes to putting integration into practice.

One study offers neural evidence that women are more sharing-oriented, while another finds new fathers find more time to relax than new mothers.

The story resonates in a post-9/11 environment of fear, a Stephen King scholar explains.

Our reflexive approach to explaining the world strongly predicts our political orientation.

Items covered by measuring national income get plenty of attention, while those not within this rigid framework often fall by the wayside. Case in point: unpaid care work.

New research from Germany suggests growing up in a single-parent household produces a small but significant long-term negative impact.

A Chinese study shows it lowers their risk of cardiovascular disease.

New research finds that, when interacting with their toddlers, dads' behavior reflects gender stereotypes.

New research finds surprisingly negative attitudes toward adults who opt out of having kids.

A look into America's changing views about love and family.

But its effect can be positive or negative, depending on the specific type of indebtedness.

Parents who are even occasional weed users can face accusations of child neglect or abuse, and can risk losing their children as a result.

Elizabeth Weingarten unpacks a new study that suggests men prioritize home and family over work more than women do.

For a growing group of straight men, fertility clinics and gestational carriers are providing life after 40.

As we wrote earlier this year, the technology can be used in a plethora of positive ways, but there is far from a legal consensus.

If you're only going to have one kid, you put everything you have into it.

Most gender dysphoric children outgrow their dysphoria, and do so by adolescence.

A reading list on the differences—or lack thereof—between gay and straight parents.

The incredible power of multi-role supermoms.

The adults so fond of dismissing difficult teens might miss the irony that this is a distrusting and non-collaborative approach to their development.

Wednesday Martin channels Jane Goodall as she attempts to gain access to a very select group.

Reporters should go easy on the sanctimony and fear mongering as they frame articles on pregnancy and childrearing.