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The Ever-Changing Definition of Adulthood and Its Cost
How do you know you’re an adult? A thousand years ago, a hundred years ago, no one asked this question. Once you were physically capable of supporting yourself, of protecting…
Op-Ed
The Effects of Divorce Through the Eyes of Two Novelists
Toward the end of “Lake Effect,” the new novel by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, Clara Larkin recounts at a dinner party the story of her mother’s decision to leave her family…
Op-Ed
Daddy Issues: Review of “Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How It Shapes Men’s Lives”
When my husband and I moved into our first house, our closing lawyer handed us a piece of paper that just read “Joe” followed by a phone number. It was…
Op-Ed
What Trump’s Executive Order on Foster Care Gets Wrong—and Right
It’s not every day that President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump hold a joint press conference to launch new policy initiatives. But last week they appeared together to…
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The Often Overlooked Link Between Drug Use and Family Decline
Who are the victims when it comes to “deaths of despair”? Recent research has focused on the racial makeup of these tragedies — drug overdoses, alcohol-related deaths and suicides. According…
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The Nanny State Is Not the Answer to Parents’ Challenges
…change,” the surgeon general writes. Too bad he has the wrong thing in mind. Naomi Schaefer Riley is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Brad Wilcox, a nonresident…
Report
Teen Suicide and the Limits of Sociology
“No one, it appears, was free to just parent as they wanted to parent—free of the web of social ties that both gave their lives meaning and set firm constraints…
Op-Ed
No Culture Wars, Please, We’re Academics
A few years ago, Melissa S. Kearney got into a taxi cab and asked the driver about a photo of a young girl on his dashboard. The driver confirmed it…
Op-Ed
Can AI Make People Want to Have Children?
Self-help gurus love to tell people to visualize their goals. Tony Robbins says, “Starting your day without visualizing your goal is like starting your day without breakfast.” In this space,…
Op-Ed
The Problem with Lived Experience
“The shift among nonprofits and funders towards valuing lived experience has been a journey,” Anna Verghese, executive director of the Audacious Group, told the Chronicle of Philanthropy earlier this spring….
Op-Ed
Down Through the Ages
How much do we have in common with our children and grandchildren? Less than our parents had in common with us—or at least that’s the theory animating Jean M. Twenge’s…