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What You Actually ‘Need’ to Have a Kid, and What You Don’t

The decision to become a parent shouldn’t hinge on how much new stuff you can afford to buy. By Amil Niazi

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Fertility

celebrity Elon Musk: Still Reproducing He and Grimes reportedly had a third child, Techno Mechanicus, last year. By Danielle Cohen
fertility The Global Sperm Count Decline Has Created Big Business The tantalizing business opportunities and disorienting politics of the worldwide decline in man’s most precious bodily fluid. By Simon van Zuylen-Wood

the hard part Facing Infertility With My Kids The IVF process is a lonely one. I refuse to let it be this time around for the sake of my two children. By Amil Niazi
first person The Surprising Comforts of Dead Ringers The rebooted psychosexual thriller helped me process my fertility and pregnancy experience. By Samantha Mann

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Pregnancy

health Scientists Finally Know What Causes Morning Sickness Researchers hope the development will lead to more effective treatment. By Tariro Mzezewa
celebrity Hilary Duff Is Pregnant With Her Fourth Child She shared the news via her family Christmas card. By Olivia Craighead

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parenting The Single Mom Who Fostered Three Afghan Refugee Teenagers “You can’t fathom what they’ve been through. You can look at them and judge them, but until you know their story, you can’t understand.” By Kristen Mascia
parenting TikTok’s Version of Parenting Is a Nightmare Fantasy Having a baby isn’t easy, but it’s far from the hellscape I can’t stop watching on my FYP. By Amil Niazi

parenting The Dad Who Became a Widower at 30 With 8-Month-Old Twins “I couldn’t stop thinking, How am I going to do this without her? We wanted to do this together.” By Kristen Mascia
parenting The Mom Who Was Fired a Week Before Her Due Date “My son was born in early June. And on the day he was born, I couldn’t stop thinking about the lawsuit.” By Kristen Mascia

Kids

parenting The Rise of the Accidentally Permissive Parent Some moms and dads who strive to be “gentle parents” unknowingly turn into indulgent ones, largely because gentle parenting is just too hard. By Elizabeth Passarella
parenting What Do Kids Lose When Preschools Are Segregated? Sociologist and race scholar Dr. Casey Stockstill discusses the ways both affluent children and poor children of color miss out. By Kathryn Jezer-Morton

parenting Childhood Independence Is a Mental-Health Issue What if we are inadvertently contributing to a decadeslong crisis? By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
parenting Talking to My Kids About the Unbearable When cruelty is inescapable, what are we supposed to tell our children? By Amil Niazi

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Teens

parenting The Final Frontier for Helicopter Parents Inside the Facebook and WhatsApp groups where moms arrange playdates for their college kids. By Juno DeMelo
parenting The Parents Obsessively Tracking Their Teens’ Homework Open grade books were supposed to be a bridge between teachers and parents, but often it’s more like disruptive missed-assignment push notifications. By Gail Cornwall

parenting How 8 New York Mothers Have Talked to Their Kids About the Israel-Hamas War How do you explain one of modern history’s most brutal conflicts to a third-grader? By Anya Kamenetz and Julia Edelstein
teens ‘They Always Say the Younger You Start, the Better’ For some teens, the fight against aging skin is already underway. But what exactly are they fighting for? By Daisy Schofield

Parenting Advice

parenting The Transgender Family Handbook 144 specific suggestions, from trans young people and their loved ones, that parents may find helpful.
advice What to Do (and Not to Do) When Your Friend Has a Newborn Forget sending a onesie. By Charlotte Cowles

profile Park Slope Parents Is Old Enough to Order a Drink Susan Fox wanted to build a community. She never expected to birth an archetype. By Emily Gould
how i get it done How New York Times Parenting Columnist Jessica Grose Gets It Done “Raising the next generation is and should be a concern to everyone.” By Alex Hazlett

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Parenting Trends

parenting Are We All Secretly Co-sleeping? The answer, according to Instagram and TikTok, is yes. Now if only we could talk about it outside of the comments section. By Wendy Syfret
the hard part Are You a Silky Mom, a Crunchy Mom, or a Scrunchie Mom? Parenting, according to TikTok. By Amil Niazi

brooding Are Helicopter Parents Actually Lazy? Maybe they’re soothing their anxiety, maybe they’re just choosing the path of least resistance. By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
brooding Would Unschooling Actually Make My Kids Any Happier? To help kids take more pleasure in school, encourage them to do their own thing — not schoolwork. By Kathryn Jezer-Morton

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