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Freedom means a world where how I parent is simply mundane rather than overburdened with meaning.
Challenges to Christian political control are often spun as threats to child welfare.
“Don’t Say Gay” laws can be traced to the Reagan-era crusade to put “parents' rights” before the interests of children.
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.
Celebrating public sexuality is an important step toward a future free of racism and homophobia.
The stakes of religious exemption challenges.
A new book shows how Trump’s family separation policy belongs to a much longer history of child-taking by the U.S. government.
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