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The Harem of Elon Musk

Elizabeth Bruenig

April 18, 2025

Elon Musk in front of backdrop of crawling babies

What a Microscopic Creature Taught Me About Parenting

Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder

April 6, 2025

Various examples of forams

Hinge

March 30, 2025

A photo of a baby with fair skin, green eyes, and a red mark next to their left eye. A line of sunlight cuts vertically through their face and left eye.

Dear James: I Hate Playing With My Children

March 11, 2025

A mom trapped inside a caterpillar-tunnel toy, beneath her playing children

Want to Change Your Personality? Have a Baby.

March 2025 Issue

A baby sitting and coloring in a black-and-white line drawing of mother

Time-Travel Thursdays

Parenting in America Keeps Getting More Intensive

February 6, 2025

Illustration of a parent holding a crying child

This Is No Way to Talk About Children

Stephanie H. Murray

January 31, 2025

A baby with a red X at left and a baby with a green checkmark at right

Parents, Put Down Your Phone Cameras

January 3, 2025

GIF of video footage featuring kids performing ballet and theater, and playing soccer

The Isolation of Intensive Parenting

Stephanie H. Murray

January 2, 2025

Several families from different households sharing in child-care activities

Two Different Ways of Understanding Fatherhood

December 23, 2024

An illustration showing a figure seated on a couch playing with a child, and another standing with their back to the child

A Parent’s Guide to Surviving Middle School

October 25, 2024

two parents hold up a bridge a child with a backpack crosses over

This Influencer Says You Can’t Parent Too Gently

October 22, 2024

A woman sits on the floor of a bedroom while three children play by themselves.

The Branch of Philosophy All Parents Should Know

October 16, 2024

Black-and-white photograph of an adult hand holding a newborn's leg

The Wonder Reader

How Choices About Having Kids Really Get Made

September 28, 2024

Lighthouse Parents Have More Confident Kids

September 22, 2024

A photo of a parent and a child walking across a grassy expanse

To Play or Not to Play With Your Kid?

September 5, 2024

A teddy bear alone with a ball

Why It’s So Hard to Know What to Do With Your Baby

September 3, 2024

Maze leading to baby

J. D. Vance Needs to Watch The Brady Bunch

July 30, 2024

A photo-illustration showing pictures of children

What Adults Lost When Kids Stopped Playing in the Street

Stephanie H. Murray

July 29, 2024

A playground slide with road lines

Why Parents Don’t Mind If Their Kids Don’t Marry

Stephanie H. Murray

July 15, 2024

Male-female doll couples (one pair in wedding outfits, the other in evening wear) atop a cracked wedding cake

The New Age of Endless Parenting

July 9, 2024

Parent and child figures growing up and closer together

Time-Travel Thursdays

What Children Remember About Their Fathers

June 13, 2024

A father holds his daughter's hand

The Same Old Sex Talk Isn’t Enough

Stephanie H. Murray

May 31, 2024

Photo-illustration featuring a hand caressing a woman's face

Is It Wrong to Tell Kids to Apologize?

Stephanie H. Murray

May 6, 2024

Boy in corner facing a wall

What Can Having Pets Teach You About Parenting?

April 16, 2024

A collage of images including a dog's face, someone brushing a dog's fur, and someone tying a ribbon on a pet

The One Big Thing You Can Do for Your Kids

Arthur C. Brooks

April 4, 2024

An illustration of a father fishing with his son

A Subtle Shift Shaking Up Sibling Relationships

March 8, 2024

one boy carrying another on his back

Dad Culture Has Nothing to Do With Parenting

Saul Austerlitz

March 5, 2024

baby mobile with a can of beer, a man in a recliner, and a guitar

The Fairy-Tale Promises of Montessori Parenting

February 27, 2024

Several blocks arranged to make an ambiguous facial expression

Why Don’t We Teach People How to Parent?

February 2, 2024

mother and child holding hands

I Still Get Called Daddy-Mommy

Shannon Carpenter

November 24, 2023

Illustration of a man holding hands with two kids to quizzical looks from others

The People Who Use Their Parents’ First Name

June 8, 2023

Collage of Mike Brady and his son Greg, from The Brady Bunch

The Parenting Prophecy

April 26, 2023

A jumbled set of photos of parents and kids

The Parent Test Stokes American Parenting’s Worst Impulses

February 22, 2023

Four couples and one single man sit on couches in an amphitheater.

Judging Parents Online Is a National Sport

Stephanie H. Murray

February 16, 2023

An image of an adult with their head in their hands overlaid with a notification bubble with a heart in it

The Right Choices in Parenting

Becca Rashid and Arthur C. Brooks

November 7, 2022

Adult hand holding a child's hand