The Trump administration has removed six vaccines from the routine immunization schedule. How is that affecting you?
Because families have complicated schedules.
Tras conocer la devastadora noticia sobre nuestro hijo pequeño, todos nos decían que no podían imaginar nuestro dolor. Pero nosotros necesitábamos compañía y conexión.
If anyone should be prepared to know how to handle my dad’s ashes, it’s me.
A growing body of research shows how pressure from overbearing coaches and parents is stunting children’s emotional well-being and leading to injuries.
A mother’s grief is well depicted in “Hamnet” and “The Correspondent.”
Y las investigaciones demuestran que la salud mental de los niños menos favorecidos sufre por eso.
Esta es la historia de MaryBeth Lewis, quien procreó 13 hijos y peleó en tribunales por dos gemelos más gestados a través de un vientre de alquiler.
Readers offer personal stories in response to a guest essay critical of home-schooling.
And research shows the less favored children suffer for it.
La crianza se estudia a fondo, pero las relaciones entre hermanos han recibido mucha menos atención.
Más de 100.000 estadounidenses dan a luz a partir de los 40 cada año, pero ¿qué significa eso para la salud de sus embarazos y sus bebés?
The pain of drug addiction continues to course through towns like Clarksburg, W.Va., where many babies are born withdrawing and have to be taken from their parents.
Parenting is closely studied, but sibling relationships have gotten much less attention.
Aunque hayas seguido cuidadosamente la ovulación y sepas cuándo fue concebido tu bebé, tu fecha de parto sigue siendo un cálculo aproximado.
Economists say that a typical middle-class family today is richer than one in the 1960s. Americans in their 20s and 30s don’t believe it.
In trying to help grown children, parents can hurt their own retirement security. Here’s how to stop the flow of money.
New research suggests that having a pet can actually make people more likely to become parents.
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
I was wrong about how to push back.
More young, child-free women are pursuing the permanent form of contraception.
Nick Reiner was arrested and booked on suspicion of murdering his mother and father, the movie director, Rob Reiner. The younger Reiner had been open about his struggles with drug abuse and homelessness.
A reader with a 9- and 11-year-old wants to branch out from “Traitors” and “The Amazing Race” when the family is together in front of the TV.
Remind me never to listen to what they are saying online about me.
Not once, in the four and a half years I learned at home, did anyone from the state come to assess what sort of education I was receiving, or even just check on me.
I’ve told him that I won’t continue supporting him unless he agrees.
After learning devastating news about our young son, we needed to feel connected to friends and family, not just exist beyond their imagination.
If he learns the right lessons, the mayor-elect could pull off something remarkable.
Asking students to drill down on their schoolwork amid an array of digital distractions is inimical to learning.
Discussion of women in the workplace often focuses on flexible hours, but what’s actually needed is shift work — pioneered by the medical profession.
Children under 12 need different versions of Covid vaccines, but many pharmacies and pediatricians’ offices aren’t stocking them.
“We should be thinking that we’re heading for more damaging changes.”
Public health advocates hoped that the measles outbreak might persuade the reluctant to get shots. That has not turned out to be true.
David Wallace-Wells and Emily Oster argue that the effects of MAHA will be long-lasting.
In a neighborhood that appeals to people from both the right and the left, residents strive for a finely tuned state of political harmony.
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.