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Why Isn’t Halloween Scary Anymore?

Being spooked by adults is one of my favorite childhood memories. But terrifying children for sport is not as socially acceptable as it once was. By Kathryn Jezer-Morton

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Fertility

motherhood Selena Gomez Shares That She ‘Can’t Carry’ Children She said she has “a lot of medical issues that would put my life and the baby’s in jeopardy.” By Emily Leibert
bullshit Trump Claims He Wants to Make IVF Free Responding to his off-the-cuff announcement, Elizabeth Warren tweeted, “American women are not stupid.” By Danielle Cohen

parenting Why Would Anyone Look for a Sperm Donor on Facebook? Meet the women logging on for fresh semen and the men who get their kicks offering their seed. By Anya Kamenetz
celebrity Selling Sunset’s Mary Fitzgerald Is Having Uterine Surgery The reality star says she made plans for the procedure after suffering a septic miscarriage. By Emily Leibert

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Pregnancy

motherhood Sofia Richie Reveals She Was Hospitalized With Preeclampsia She opened up about her postpartum experience on Dr. A’s She MD podcast. By Emily Leibert
encounter She Delivered the Kardashian And Bieber Babies How Dr. A became the most beloved OB/GYN in Hollywood. By Bindu Bansinath

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how i got this baby The Mom Who Became the Adoptive Parent She Never Had “Being in foster care and knowing how many bad homes are out there, I’ve always known that I wanted to adopt a child.” By Yolanda Wikiel
how i got this baby The Mom Who Had a Home Birth After a C-Section “I was determined to create a different birthing experience than the one I had with my first child. I needed to prove that I could do it.” By L'Oreal Thompson Payton

how i got this baby The Mom Who Became a Foster Parent After a Ruptured Ectopic Pregnancy “I had feared getting attached to a child and then losing them, but now I had a new mindset.” By L'Oreal Thompson Payton
pet ethics Why Did I Stop Loving My Cat When I Had a Baby? A freelance writer examines a fraught period of time following the birth of her child. By Anonymous

Kids

parenting How Dare You Blame Parents for Pandemic Kids Being ‘Behind’ Now that 2020 babies are school-age but apparently not school-ready, parents are being scapegoated. Have you been paying any goddamned attention? By Amil Niazi
parenting Boo Baskets Are Haunting Parents Introducing the latest rabidly consumerist way to show your kids — and your followers — how much you love them. By Sarah Wheeler

parenting How an Exhausting, Stressful Summer Trip Helped My Shy Kid Come Out of His Shell Trust me: All that travel chaos is worth it. By Amil Niazi
parenting Planet Grok My son and I spent a week playing with an artificially intelligent stuffed rocket ship — and glimpsed the eerie and irritating future of play. By Katie Arnold-Ratliff

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Teens

self Getting Your Period in the Age of School Shootings Girls say policies like backpack bans force them to hide tampons in their hair and shoes. By Angelina Chapin
men Teen Boys Have Elaborate Skin-care Routines, Too The TikTok-fueled adolescent beauty boom isn’t just about girls shopping at Sephora. By Brennan Kilbane

parenting Who Is All That Obsessively Detailed College-Dorm Decorating Really For? How “Dorm Room Mamas” are using Amazon to helicopter-parent their kids post high-school graduation. By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
social media Snapchat Is a Minefield for Teen Friendships The hugely popular app ranks users based on how much they interact with each other. What could go wrong? By Casey Lewis

Parenting Advice

parenting The Transgender Family Handbook 144 specific suggestions for how to be a supportive parent to your trans kid, according to trans young people and their loved ones.
celebrity Paris Hilton Has One Word for Critics of Her Parenting And for once, it’s not sliving. By Emily Leibert

parenting Emily Oster Softens Up In her new book, The Unexpected, the economist turned parenting expert examines life-threatening pregnancy complications that defy optimization. By Miranda Rake
parenting Talking to My Kids About the Unbearable When cruelty is inescapable, what are we supposed to tell our children? By Amil Niazi

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Parenting Trends

niche drama Now Who Is This TikTok Couple Who Left Their Babies Alone on a Cruise? Once again explaining Matt and Abby Howard. By Allie Jones
parenting I Don’t Need Your Opinion on My Kid’s Screen Time Talking about how you’ll parent someday is one thing. Surviving a kid’s tantrum so bad you question every choice you’ve ever made is another. By Amil Niazi

parenting The Rise of the Accidentally Permissive Parent Some moms and dads who strive to be “gentle parents” unknowingly turn into indulgent ones, largely because gentle parenting is just too hard. By Elizabeth Passarella
parenting Are We All Secretly Co-sleeping? The answer, according to Instagram and TikTok, is yes. Now if only we could talk about it outside of the comments section. By Wendy Syfret

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