She is the first major politician to support abortion without qualification. And she has never polled better with millennials.

Many young children become obsessed with gender. How do we know which are trans?

On the cruelties the South doles out to animals, children, and black folks.

Poetry is offering new candor about the ways men care for their children.

Moralistic efforts to guard against online predation do more harm than good.

School reform is failing America's children.

Richard Beck's new book on the moral panic over child abuse in the 1980s.

The instability of the white working class.

On Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts.

Unisex Fashion Fought the Gender Binary, and the Binary Won.

Why are we even debating whether a seven-year-old child was a child molester?

Islamic jurisprudence does not encourage abortion, but unlike the Catholic Church, it does not absolutely forbid it.

Anti-vaxxers need to relax.

I was still in college the first time someone cried in a parent-teacher conference with me.

It is easy, but wrong, to see development in terms of 'genes for X' or a nature/nurture balance.

Welfare policy breeds distrust, which in turn undermines outcomes. Judith A. Levine offers modest proposals for how we can reach the most disadvantaged among us.  

Is there actually a right to know one’s biogenetic familial origins?

Elisabether Badinter blames “naturalism” for all-consuming motherhood, but she leaves the real culprits off the hook.

Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation portrays an Iranian divorce under sharia law with sensitivity and pathos.

Life and death in a New Orleans squat.