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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. When Conservative Parents Revolt
Reagan-era classroom battles previewed today’s war on “woke.”
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Peter Marlow / Magnum A Subtle Shift Shaking Up Sibling Relationships
The age gap between children is widening—and altering family dynamics.
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Illustration by Katie Martin. Source: Getty The Anti-abortion Movement’s Attack on Wanted Pregnancies
The push to give legal rights to embryos and fetuses not only forces unwanted pregnancies, it also steals choice from women who fervently want children.
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Illustration by Katie Martin The Fairy-Tale Promises of Montessori Parenting
No matter how hard you work to organize a playroom, you can’t eliminate chaos or uncertainty from the task of raising kids.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: yu-ji / Getty. The Paradox of Stay-at-Home Parents
American society is largely built around the assumption that one parent will stay home. So why is there so little material support for homemakers?
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Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Heritage Images / … I Don’t Know If I Can Call Myself a Mom
After enduring infant loss and years of fertility challenges, I still don’t have a child.
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Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. I Grew Up Not Knowing My Birthday
As Vietnamese refugees, my family looked forward, not back. That also meant forgetting the date of my birth.
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Illustration by Ángel Hernández How Raising a Child Is Like Writing a Novel
Creating art requires a suspension of disbelief, a narrowing of vision to the present moment, an openness to the unexpected. So, too, with caring for a tiny human being.
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Illustration by The Atlantic The Catch-22 for Working Parents
The U.S. requires parents to work in order to receive aid but does very little to enable parents to work—or workers to parent.
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Erika Larsen for The Atlantic Judy Blume Goes All the Way
A new generation discovers the poet laureate of puberty.
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James Clark / ABC The Parent Test Stokes American Parenting’s Worst Impulses
The reality competition show reinforces an isolationist vision of family life that is fueled by fear.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty Judging Parents Online Is a National Sport
Whether they share their joys or their struggles, parents just can’t win on social media.
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic; Irving Haberman / … The Summer-Camp Feeding Frenzy Has Already Begun
The “every family for itself” approach to child care in the U.S. means parents’ options for three months of the year are shelling out for expensive camps, fighting for limited slots in affordable programs, or nothing.
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Jamie Hodgson / Getty Is Defying Parents the Only Ethical Alternative?
Instead of rigid rules, educators need the freedom to finesse delicate questions about young students’ gender identity.
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Simone Lueck / Bloomberg / Getty The Case for Public Child Care
Parents deserve the option.
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Rop van Mierlo Will Children’s Books Become Catalogs of the Extinct?
As an environmental journalist and a parent, I worry that the animals in my son’s bedtime stories will disappear before he learns they’re real.
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Maridelis Morales Rosado / The New York Times … The Married-Mom Advantage
Motherhood during the pandemic wasn’t so miserable after all. But some moms did better than others.
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Getty The Child Tax Credit Was a Little Too Subtle
How $100 billion helped families, changed no votes, and is about to disappear
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The Atlantic The Dilemma of Babies on Airplanes
Hamstrung by the need to ensure that their kids don’t inconvenience anyone else, parents can’t do much parenting at all.
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Getty Why Doesn’t Every American Have a Robot Dog?
Fake puppies that could move and bark and dance were all the rage in the early 2000s. How is it possible that we live in a society that could fall out of love with such a thing?
