In a recent crop of films and television shows, grown men are obsessed with their mothers — even if they’re not the monsters audiences expect them to be.
Category: Parenting
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Child Care Is an Industry on the Brink
Five months after the expiration of federal funds, running a child care business is more precarious than ever and many parents are struggling to pay tuition, two surveys show.
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How Many Tribeca Pediatrics Does a City Need?
Michel Cohen made the unglamorous job of caring for kids into a replicable, exportable aesthetic — to the tune of millions.
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More Fathers Are Breaking the Stay At Home Dad Stigma
With more men choosing to stay at home with their kids, the stigma — and the notion that they’re just filling in for mom — could finally be fading.
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Lactation Consultant Group Investigates Tongue-Tie Advocate
Mothers have complained that Melanie Henstrom, a lactation consultant in Boise, Idaho, pressured them to get their babies’ tongues lasered by a dentist.
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Parents Are Highly Involved in Their Adult Children’s Lives, and Fine With It
New surveys show that today’s intensive parenting has benefits, not just risks, and most young adults seem happy with it, too.
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‘#HagamosBebésJudíos’, escribió en un cartel. Hay quienes se lo toman en serio
Irina Barskaya, una mujer de 33 años de Brooklyn, sintió el impulso de tener hijos con una persona judía tras los atentados de Hamás del 7 de octubre. Y no es la única.
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She Issued a Call to ‘#MakeJewishBabies.’ Some Are Taking It Seriously.
Irina Barskaya, a 33-year-old woman in Brooklyn, felt a pull to have children with another Jew after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. She’s not the only one.
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The Quiet Luxury of South Korea’s Postpartum Care Centers
Some new mothers say postpartum care centers are the best part of childbirth in South Korea, where fewer people are deciding to have children because of high costs.
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China Told Women to Have Babies, but Its Population Shrank Again
Faced with falling births, China’s Communist Party is ignoring the citizens it needs most to help stabilize a shrinking population and maintain economic growth.
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Sharing an Airbnb With My Parents for Seven Weeks
Korea was my parents’ country. They wouldn’t need me there as they did in Canada … right?