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Where Should Women Channel Their Ambition?

Samhita Mukhopadhyay on The Myth of Making It in a World Set Up For Women to Fail

Haley Swenson·Jul 25, 2024·10 min read

Four years since the COVID-19 pandemic shook U.S. workplaces and its child care systems, parents continue to engage in vital...

Book Review: Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth

K.C. Compton·May 30, 2023·5 min read

In flipping the script, Banks writes that birth is immense, that birth has existential, moral and theological significance at least as great as death.

Why Invest in Public Campaigns to Promote Marriage When What’s Needed Are Effective Policies?

New Two Parent Privilege Book Strikes a Nerve

Haley Swenson·Oct 12, 2023·7 min read

Prior to becoming a mother, Emily Ford worked as a personal fitness trainer in the Salt Lake City, Utah area....

Book Review: A Surgeon’s Road Map to a “Parent Nation”

Mark Swartz·Apr 12, 2022·5 min read

Dana L. Suskind, surgeon and “self-trained social scientist,” balances an incredible amount of empathy and urgency in her second book, Parent Nation.

Book Review: Why and How to Abolish the Child Welfare System

Mark Swartz·Sep 14, 2023·4 min read

The history of racism in the United States and its ongoing impacts on children and families experiencing state-sponsored displacement are on full display in this collection edited by Dettlaff.

Book Review: Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit

K.C. Compton·Aug 18, 2022·6 min read

Along with this history of metastatic industrial development, staggering pollution, relentless corruption and breathtakingly bad policy, Rector presents the other side of the coin: the fierce, courageous, dogged commitment of activists pushing back decade after decade, demanding cleaner air, better working conditions and water that wouldn’t poison their children.

Book Review: Screaming on the Inside: How Modern Motherhood Explains the Child Care Crisis

Elliot Haspel·Dec 6, 2022·4 min read

As a man, a husband and a father, it turns out reading a book about motherhood could hardly be more valuable.

Other Countries Have Social Safety Nets: The U.S. Has Women

Q+A with author Jessica Calarco on her new book, “Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net”

Rebecca Gale·Jun 4, 2024·11 min read

Jessica Calarco is onto something. There’s a reason why women in this country feel that so much pressure rests on...

Book Review: How to Raise a Viking: The Secrets of Parenting the World’s Happiest Children

K.C. Compton·Jun 26, 2024·6 min read

While Helen Russell’s clever, well-researched exploration of the parenting culture of Denmark and other Nordic countries might not fully map onto the experience of most families in the U.S. or U.K. (Russell’s original home), it offers refreshing insights that can help parents relax a bit, give themselves heaps of grace and have much more fun raising their family.

Book Review

Where Should Women Channel Their Ambition?

Book Review: Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth

Why Invest in Public Campaigns to Promote Marriage When What’s Needed Are Effective Policies?

Book Review: A Surgeon’s Road Map to a “Parent Nation”

Book Review: Why and How to Abolish the Child Welfare System

Book Review: Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit

Book Review: Screaming on the Inside: How Modern Motherhood Explains the Child Care Crisis

Other Countries Have Social Safety Nets: The U.S. Has Women

Book Review: How to Raise a Viking: The Secrets of Parenting the World’s Happiest Children

Book Review: Wanting What’s Best: Parenting, Privilege and Building a Just World

Back and Forth: Talking with Author Rebecca Rolland about Talking with Children

Book Review: Child Care Justice: Transforming the System of Care for Young Children

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