Beijing Review

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There is a saying that parents are their children’s first teachers. Family education concerns the growth of a child and therefore affects a country’s development and social stability. Chinese parents are known for their intense involvement in their o

The Atlantic

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A small but significant proportion of mothers and fathers wish they’d never had children. The whole family can suffer as a result.

True Love

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The introduction of the State of South Africa’s Fathers 2018, a report compiled by Sonke Gender Justice and Human Sciences Research Council, talks about the colourful scope of different fathers we have in our country. “There is no typical father in S

Blue Mountains Life

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do your kids have your back? Apparently more so than many of you think. That’s the most heartening takeaway in an otherwise cautionary look at the diciest of subjects - ageing parents - that comes courtesy of the third biennial “Fidelity Investments

AMERICAN THEATRE

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LAST DECEMBER AT THE PUBLIC THEATER, THE PARENT ARTIST ADVOCACY LEAGUE hosted an extraordinary gathering of theatre leaders, artists, and academics to share best practices and challenges around support for caregivers in the American theatre. The day

The Atlantic

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It was AncestryDNA’s customer-service rep who had to break the news to Catherine St Clair. For her part, St Clair thought she was inquiring about a technical glitch. Her brother—the brother who along with three other siblings had gifted her the DNA t

The Atlantic

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The idea that you’re supposed to treat your children equally is recent, and it’s still not the norm in much of the world.

The Atlantic

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Even if children are less vulnerable to the coronavirus, they don’t suffer any less from the loss it causes.

POPSUGAR

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Growing up, I loved being an only child. The bountiful, unshared Christmases. The peaceful, unshared teen years. The relaxing, unshared visits home as an adult. Notice a theme here? I hate to reinforce the stereotype that only children don't share -

Futurity

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Parents’ genes don’t determine their kids’ sex, researchers report. The new study debunks century-old theories that having girls or boys “runs in families.” The study was the largest conducted on the often-debated question, and concluded the sex of o

Nautilus

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The Northwestern University economist Charles Manksi calls it the “reflection problem”: How can we know if person A is affecting person B, or the reverse? Without being in each person’s head or observing every subtle non-verbal cue in their interacti

Money Magazine

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Disputes between siblings can sometimes spiral out of control. In July brothers Garry and Malcolm Taylor were so jealous of their sister Kerrie’s appointment as executor of the estate of their late mother, Lois, that they took extreme revenge. The br

The Atlantic

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Editor’s Note: Every Monday, Lori Gottlieb answers questions from readers about their problems, big and small. Have a question? Email her at dear.therapist@theatlantic.com. Dear Therapist, My 30-year-old son and I had a fight on Mother’s Day, and he

The Atlantic

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Editor’s Note: Every Monday, Lori Gottlieb answers questions from readers about their problems, big and small. Have a question? Email her at dear.therapist@theatlantic.com. Dear Therapist, For quite some time, I’ve known that my parents haven’t gott

Fairlady

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‘MY mom is very open about who her favourite is – to this day, she calls my brother “the golden boy”. Ever since I can remember, she has been telling my sisters and me that her dream was to have five strapping sons,’ says Sarah*. ‘After each daughter

Kiplinger

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It's time to come clean with yourself. Are you "that" parent (or grandparent)? The current arrests surrounding the college admissions scandal scream for us to look at ourselves in the mirror ... now. Now don't get carried away, I'm not suggesting t

Woman's Day

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This is an edited extract from Surviving Year 12 by Michael Carr-Gregg and Elly Robinson (Penguin Random House Australia, $22.99). The final year of secondary school can be an extremely stressful 12 months – not just for the child, but for parents,

Her World Singapore

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I am a Singaporean living in New Zealand. We have a daughter Rachel*, whom we adopted 17 years ago. The move here was a much-needed break for me from my professional career, which took my family and I to China (where we made the decision to adopt) an

Futurity

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Strained relationships between parents and daughters can bring couples to a breaking point, research suggests. The good news is that it only lasts through the teenage years. A new study of more than two million marriages in the Netherlands over 10 ye

Mother & Baby India

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Being a single parent is not the easiest role in the world. Each parent performs very unique roles in their child’s life—to nurture, discipline, care, feed, provide financial support, education and so on. So what happens if, for some reason, you have

Nautilus

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When philosopher Nicolas Malebranche peered at a fetus floating in a glass jar, in a shop of curiosities in Paris in 1672, he blamed its monstrous shape on the mother. At the time it was believed that a mother could deform her fetus simply by looking

You South Africa

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DIVORCE: it’s stressful enough as it is but bickering over maintenance can make it even harder. When parents part ways, their children still have the right to proper care but there’s often confusion between exes about who’s responsible for what. Rene

The Atlantic

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Parents thought Donor 9623 was a genius who spoke four languages, not a college dropout with a criminal record.

New Philosopher

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Joseph Millum is an ethicist at The Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health in the US. Millum received his undergraduate degree from Edinburgh University and his PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto. His current resea

Mother & Baby India

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While doing my research on surrogacy before I chose it as an option to bring my baby home, I came across the term 'intended parents' or IPs, as they are called in assisted reproduction. Referring to people who choose different versions of surrogacy t

The Atlantic

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The party of family values is now defending a government agency that is forcibly separating children from their parents.

TIME

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THERE ARE MANY WAYS IN WHICH celebrities are not like us, from the clothes they wear to the jets they fly. And when Angelina Jolie, one of the world’s most famous women, filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, one of the world’s most famous men, she did so

Go: Drive & Camp

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One of my friends who is also a camping enthusiast told me about an interesting research project conducted in the UK. The researchers interviewed parents and children about their camping experiences and found that British kids who camp at least once

POPSUGAR

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Under typical circumstances, being a single parent is already tough. This society and its resources are not set up for us, with its value of individualism and extended families rarely living together. In fact, in the US, the average household size is

Lunch Lady Magazine

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I always have a hard time describing myself because I don’t like the traditional idea of defining ourselves by our job title, marriage or parental status. Ultimately, I’m someone who’s very grateful to be here—who takes immense pleasure in things I o