Articles in Gender & Sexuality tagged with Children and Family

Jennifer C. Nash

The Ordinary Pleasures of Black Motherhood

Freedom means a world where how I parent is simply mundane rather than overburdened with meaning.

Michael Bronski

Grooming and the Christian Politics of Innocence

Challenges to Christian political control are often spun as being threats to child welfare. “Don’t Say Gay” laws are the latest in a long history dating back to medieval attacks on Jews.

Judith Levine

Father Knows Best

“Don’t Say Gay” laws can be traced to the Reagan-era crusade to put “parents' rights” before the interests of children.

Judith Levine

Hating Motherhood

Some feminists think we can improve motherhood. But what if abolishing it is the only way to alleviate its problems?

Christine Henneberg

Why I Provide Abortions

My patients and I don’t use words like “choice” or “viability.”

Sophie Lewis

How Domestic Labor Robs Women of Their Love

Netflix’s Maid and three recent best-sellers depict the agonies and rage of being a low-wage housekeeper or nanny. But all fail to identify capitalism itself as the culprit.

Joseph J. Fischel

Keep Pride Nude

Arguments that kink has no place in a post-#MeToo Pride may appear reasonable, but celebrating public sexuality is an important step toward a future free of racism and homophobia.

Briana Last, Joanna Wuest

With Gay Adoption Decision, Will the Supreme Court Erode the Regulatory State?

On the surface, Fulton v. Philadelphia poses a question about religious conscience—but its proponents hope it will enable conservatives to pick and choose which laws they have to follow.

Paul M. Renfro

America’s Long War on Children and Families

A new book shows how Trump’s family separation policy belongs to a much longer history of child-taking by the U.S. government.

Christine Hume

Halloween and Stranger Danger

Bizarre restrictions are levied against people on the sex offense registry on Halloween. But do they actually make children safer or simply reveal what we fear?

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