Rachel Accurso, the beloved children’s YouTube star, announced a deal with the streaming service, broadening her audience and making it even easier to find her content.
Parents in Maryland said a school board’s refusal to notify them and to excuse their children from discussions of the storybooks violated the First Amendment.
Onstage, the flip-side of filial devotion has often been contempt. But a wave of forceful and multidimensional mothers suggests that may be changing.
A group of younger lawmakers is pressing to change House rules to allow members who are new parents to vote remotely.
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the curation of a book collection.
Sarah Wildman on the conversation that was missing during her daughter’s cancer treatment.
In a new memoir, Sarah Hoover grapples with the uglier moments that she and her husband, the artist Tom Sachs, have faced while navigating parenthood.
Researchers say hundreds of thousands of babies’ lives could be saved each year in developing countries with exclusive breastfeeding.
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on bodily autonomy and medical consent.
Letting them take some responsibility for their choices is what prepares them for adult life.
Photographers and other men offer to build online followings for young girls, but some are pedophiles who work with parents to sexualize them.
The controversial medical diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome can send parents to jail. What if the symptoms are caused by something else?
Readers discuss the need for frank discussions about porn. Also: Luigi Mangione; pediatric cancer bills; our environmental focus; the obesity crisis.
As pressure builds to make baby showers extra flashy, some are opting instead for low-key nesting parties, which center on household tasks.
Sex is a big part of life. Why is it so hard to talk to family members about it?
Sex is a big part of life. Why is it so hard to talk to family members about it?
Despite some debates in the news, Americans’ views on Santa haven’t really changed, polls show. Most parents still say he’ll visit on Christmas Eve.
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.