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Articles in Gender & Sexuality tagged with Children and Family

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

Jennifer C. Nash

Challenges to Christian political control are often spun as threats to child welfare.

Michael Bronski

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

Judith Levine
Some feminists think we can improve motherhood. But what if abolishing it is the only way to alleviate its problems?
Judith Levine
My patients and I don’t use words like “choice” or “viability.”
Christine Henneberg

Recent works depict the agonies and rage of being a low-wage housekeeper or nanny. But all fail to identify capitalism itself as the culprit.

Sophie Lewis

Celebrating public sexuality is an important step toward a future free of racism and homophobia.

Joseph J. Fischel

The stakes of religious exemption challenges.

Briana Last, Joanna Wuest

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

Paul M. Renfro
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?
Christine Hume

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