Tag: Children and Family

Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness.

A liberal economist and a family abolitionist agree: our economic system makes human flourishing depend on social units it can't sustain.

Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.

My son’s violent illness humbled my sense of control and transformed my understanding of what it means to parent.

The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.

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

A recording and transcript of our event on inequities in medicine and child welfare.

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.

The system’s roots aren’t in rescuing children but in the policing of Black, Indigenous, and poor families.

During the Cold War, El Paso public schools knew this too when they taught the children of former Nazis how to be white Americans.

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

The Judge Rotenberg Center, a Massachusetts school, still uses electric shock therapy to punish disabled students. How can an entire field of mental health accept this?

On language and belonging.

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

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.

Amidst a boys’ club of ’70s-era comics, Shary Flenniken’s Trots and Bonnie was unique for its feminist depiction of the political and sexual awakening of young women.

Direct payments to families should replace backdoor tax breaks.

The stakes of religious exemption challenges.

A trip to Machu Picchu ends up offering surprising insights into what it means to be a survivor of the genocide of Native Americans.

Elizabeth Catte’s new book examines how Virginia progressives believed the forced sterilization of poor whites would pave the way to a bright future—and how their legacy endures in national parks and prisons.

Amid widespread indifference toward the most vulnerable, even small acts of kindness can make a difference.

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