The writer Kathryn Schulz on losing her father at the same time as finding her life partner, and how to hold radically different feelings at once.
Are millennials’ fears of failing their children outweighing their desire to have them?
New research involving nearly 200,000 mothers found that one in 12 rated her mental health as fair or poor.
When opposing fans taunted a wrestling star, he and his father fought back. The clash lay bare the intensity of competition, and parental interference, in an increasingly high-stakes sport.
I have many guy friends. Why don’t we hang out more?
Mis amigos creen que nuestros hijos deberían saber la verdad.
Lo que ocurre cuando la maternidad no es como esperabas.
We already have three kids; my husband doesn’t want a fourth. How much do I have to take his concerns into account when I don’t share them?
My friends think our children should know the truth.
Pronatalist policies are unsupported by data, too narrow and, frankly, weird.
A reader’s husband accused her of hypocrisy because she wouldn’t permit the same behavior if their son were straight.
What if it’s in the name of making them appreciate how cool they are?
En los últimos años ha crecido un corpus de investigación que añade claridad y profundidad a nuestra comprensión de lo significativo que puede ser el impacto de los hermanos.
My mom and dad joined the millions of Americans who parent their children’s children — a beautiful responsibility that comes at a high cost.
We want to hear from readers ages 18-30 about their aspirations for the future.
The secretary of education said it would be a “wonderful thing.” Lots of parents disagree.
In a unique twist, three women swap mothers for a candid conversation about their choice to be child-free in “M/other.”
In a unique twist, three women swap mothers for a candid conversation about their choice to be child-free.
Having children means being a puzzle-solver in ways big and small.
Does a product that promises to “externalize the primary caregiver’s brain” actually work?
As the Trump administration shrinks federal child care programs, Republicans are backing policies they hope will allow more parents to scale back at work.
President Trump’s efforts to eliminate the Department of Education and give its funding directly to the states is a nightmare for parents like myself.
As prices of baby gear surge and vaccine misinformation spreads, some Democrats see a chance to tap into parents’ raw emotions — something Republicans have recently been far better at doing.
Being flawed is an important part of a mother’s job. How else would the children in your world learn that flaws are OK and to accept their own?
The staying power of family culture.
Readers react to a woman’s account of raising her autistic child.
How well do you really know your mother? Call her and find out.
In “The Family Dynamic,” Susan Dominus examines what makes some families “exceptional.”
Once in a year, in May or June, parents get a window, or a fun-house mirror, into how their children feel they’re doing.
Jeffrey Rupnow, whose 15-year-old daughter fatally shot a teacher and a fellow student at a Christian school in Madison in December, faces two weapons-related counts, the authorities said.
As seen through the gimlet eye of the New York Times cultural critic Amanda Hess, millennial parenting is anything but natural.
A tres años de la invasión rusa de Ucrania, los padres que se oponen al conflicto y algunos maestros dicen estar haciendo todo lo posible para proteger a los niños de la educación patriótica del Estado.
Three years into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, antiwar parents and some teachers say they are going to great lengths to shield children from state-mandated patriotic education classes.
Parents try everything to influence their children. But new research suggests brothers and sisters have their own profound impact.
“For the first time since having my kids, I felt like a whole person.”
Sometimes I wonder, “Why did we have to wait this long?”
These parents believe in home-schooling and distrust food and drug companies. In Kennedy, they see “a bull in the china shop.”
As trust in medicine declines and vaccine hesitancy spreads, doctors are changing how they talk about lifesaving childhood shots.
Voters in the Virginia suburbs shifted toward Trump. Some said they were still frustrated by pandemic closures and fights over gender, race and testing in schools.
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
More people are rejecting the false binary of remote work vs. the corporate ladder.
Four years after the pandemic began, parents continue to struggle with a broken child care system, but there’s reason to hope for a better future.
In her elegant essay collection, “Lessons for Survival,” Emily Raboteau confronts climate collapse, societal breakdown and the Covid pandemic while trying to raise children in a responsible way.
Después de la pandemia, el invierno parece ser un desfile interminable de malestares. ¿Pasó algo?
Post-pandemic, winter has become one big blur of coughs and colds. Did something change?
Post-pandemic work-from-home norms allowed more women to stay in the work force than ever before. Remote work could also make it harder to get ahead.
The share of women working has reached a record high, with the biggest increases among mothers of children under 5.
Readers disagree with an essay expressing concern about a decline after a peak. Also: Rudy Giuliani’s drinking; book bans; masks in hospitals; wedding magic.
A substantial share of fathers who took on more domestic work during lockdowns have kept it up, new data shows, and rearranged their work lives to do so.
Readers criticize a column by Bret Stephens asserting that mask mandates were ineffective. Also: Children and loss; John Fetterman; population growth.
When a viral question goes viral.
The pandemic gave some parents a reprieve. That may be over.
A baby boomlet may not have been 2021’s only productivity increase.
As programs expire, such federal spending is returning to prior levels: $1 for every $6 spent on older adults.
Definitive statements on open questions isn’t the way.
Readers react to an editorial urging an indictment to show that he “is not above the law.” Also: Abortion and data privacy; Moderna’s suit; children’s mental health.
Según los expertos, los niños no tienen riesgo alto de infección. Pero ofrecen consejos para cuidar a todos en el regreso a clases, desde los más pequeños hasta los universitarios.
Experts say children are not at a high risk of infection. But they have advice to keep everyone — from toddlers to college kids — safe.
The crisis kids face at this point in the pandemic is not the virus but the cost of so many years of disrupted school.
They were once Democrats and Republicans. But fears for their children in the pandemic transformed their thinking, turning them into single-issue voters for November’s midterms.
In a new survey, 43 percent of parents of children ages 6 months through 4 years said they would refuse the shots for their kids. An additional 27 percent were uncertain.
We all know what happened with summer 2020. Then 2021 was dampened by Delta. This year, any anticipated return to revelry has been hampered by … *waves hands at everything.* Is there hope for enjoying the once fun season?
When my adult children came home during Covid lockdown, I loved feeling I could protect them.
The payoff feels somewhat anticlimactic.
It was a milestone in the coronavirus pandemic, 18 months after adults first began receiving shots against the virus. The response from parents was notably muted.
Although opening up shots for children under 5 is a milestone, this long-awaited phase of the U.S. immunization effort is being greeted with mixed emotions.
The vaccines seem safe for children and are likely to protect against severe illness. But data on efficacy is thin, and most children have already been infected.
Parents of 4-year-olds should start the vaccination process as soon as possible, according to experts, even if that means beginning with the lower-dose version.
Here are answers to five common questions.
Some scientists believe that a clearer picture of Covid vaccine efficacy could have emerged sooner if investigators had tracked certain immune cells, not just antibodies.
Covid vaccines for young children are finally coming.
Times readers with babies, toddlers or preschoolers who are unvaccinated against the coronavirus wrote in about worries and strains, loneliness and lost time.
Take this Times test to find out.
My fourth grader thinks about every event she’s missed, and I can’t pretend it doesn’t hurt.
A wave of parents has been radicalized by Covid-era misinformation to reject ordinary childhood immunizations — with potentially lethal consequences.