Tag: Children and Family

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The End of Family Values

Neoliberalism rests on the myth that “good” families can provide for their own without public support.

Julie Kohler

High Stakes Tests Aren’t Better—And They Never Will Be

Accountability is important. But tests that tie school funding to student performance only make things worse.

Lelac Almagor

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?

Christine Hume

Secularism’s Saints

Two recent books about Mormon women highlight the success of the church in redefining itself as a modern liberal religion. But to become that, the Latter-day Saints dramatically reworked both their theology and history.

Peter Coviello

‘Flexible’ Family Leave Is Lousy Feminism

Balancing work-life pressures is often considered the holy grail, but men can still opt out of these policies. To move the needle on gender inequality, the state needs to take more coercive action.

Gina Schouten

What White Kids Learn About Race in School

Sixty-five years after Brown v. Board of Education, U.S. schools remain largely segregated. This matters not only because white and black students experience very different educational outcomes, but also because school is where children form many of their ideas about race and privilege.

Erik Loomis

The Precarity of Black Motherhood

Jordan Peele's ‘Us’ depicts the terrors faced by black mothers in a way that owes as much to Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ as it does to classic Hollywood horror.

Tao Leigh Goffe

Who’s Your Daddy?

The meaning of fatherhood remains elusive, even in the age of DNA-based paternity testing.

Nara Milanich

Abortion’s Past and Future

Teaching Citizenship

Education’s most important job is to teach students to take an active role in their democracy, starting in their own communities.

Albert W. Dzur

Those Left Behind When #LoveWon

Did the success of gay marriage erode the radical potential of queer politics?

Hugh Ryan

All the Witches They Could Not Burn

A woman’s body is both a site of exploitation and a site of resistance. It is out of this vexed space that the witch is conjured.

Jessie Kindig

In the Name of Public Safety

The Mass Bail Out at Rikers Island shows that freedom is a critical part of public safety.

Jocelyn Simonson

Who’s Got Personality?

The Myers-Briggs Bias: An Interview with Merve Emre

Deborah Chasman, Merve Emre

Programming My Child

Through the experience of parenting his daughter, a software developer came to see Google and Facebook as the first digital children.

David Auerbach

The Conversion of Pope Francis

The pontiff still hasn't commented on Ireland's abortion referendum. That could all change when he visits the country in August.

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Going to Work in Mommy’s Basement

From laundry to meal prep, apps tend to mimic maternal care. Is this good for women?

Sarah Sharma

When Gays Wanted to Liberate Children

Seventies activists wanted to emancipate kids and destroy the nuclear family—so how did we end up with gay marriage instead?

Michael Bronski

Guns in the Family

A childhood steeped in guns shows that toxic masculinity and racism are at the heart of U.S. gun culture.

Walter Johnson

Talking about Death

What constitutes a good death? On end-of-life care and assisted suicide.

F. M. Kamm

How Good Health Became a Numbers Game

It is no longer necessary to feel ill in order to be ill.

Christopher J. Phillips

All in the Family Debt

How neoliberals and conservatives came together to undo the welfare state.

Melinda Cooper

Songs of White Innocence

Why did the alt-right, so eager to excuse Milo Yiannopoulos, finally turn on him?

Judith Levine