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Library Late Fees Are Going Away. Finally!

By Lizzy Francis

How Mass Incarceration Has Led to Absentee Fathers and Troubled Children

By Andrew Yarrow

So You Think You're Middle Class? Well, You're Probably Not

By Lizzy Francis

Opinion

Trump's National Character Counts Week is a Sick Joke for Kids

By Patrick A. Coleman

Rep. Elijah Cummings Showed Us Our Real Work is for Our Children

By Patrick A. Coleman

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Yeah, The White House’s “Build the Wall” Game Was Racist. It Was Also a Boring Game for Kids. The game, which tasked kids to wear construction outfits and stick red bricks to a wall, seems extremely boring.

Opinion

How to Stay Sane, Keep Friends, Parent Well, and Still Keep Up with the Impeachment News The news is a lot. Here's how to stay in control of it.

Joe Biden Is Every Parent Whose Kid Would Never Do That, Oh No, Not His Son Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's morally good, Joe.

Opinion

Welp, It's Time To Turn Off Push Notifications It's going to be a long impeachment season. Turn off those notifications.

Opinion

Canada Gives Parents Free Money. We Should Too. In doing so, they lifted 278,000 families out of poverty.

If We Learn One Thing from Greta Thunberg, It’s That the Voting Age Is Too Damn High Let the kids vote for the future they'll be alive to face.

Opinion

The Global Climate Strike and the Zen of Kids in Protest Live, from the midst of a sea of protesting teenagers on a warming planet.

Sandy Hook Promise PSA Is Profoundly Disturbing, But Not Exactly Shocking A PSA from the nonprofit organization reminds watchers that the school now resembles a war zone, at least in the minds of children and parents.

This Mayor Brought His Baby to Work. Then, the Backlash Hit. Mayor Jorge Elorza is much like any other working parent on a budget: he's just trying to make ends meet

Hey Dad, I Need to Borrow the Economy Boomers have thrived thanks to economic policies that have hurt their children. What, if anything, do they owe the next generation?

Opinion

Medicare For All Would Benefit the American Middle Class and American Businesses It would do a lot for them — and the companies they work for.

The Myth and Reality of the Deadbeat Dad Deadbeat dads are denounced so regularly it has become a cultural tradition. This is not totally without reason, but it's also a highly simplistic view of families in crisis.

Trump Upsets America's Work/Life Balance In order for American workers to get better wages — either by guaranteeing them overtime or a greater rate of pay — the salary threshold must be raised.

Opinion

Menstrual Products Save Lives. They Should Be a Human Right. In many ways, the Trumpian policy of limiting access to menstrual products echoes issues seen in period equity around the world.

Opinion

What Unions Do for Families 'If unions were stronger, and worker power was stronger, we would not be the only industrial nation in the world without paid parental leave or paid vacations.'

Why Every Candidate Needs to Have a Federal Family Paid Leave Plan Paid family leave isn't just a morally good thing to do — it makes economic sense.

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