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How to Fly Your Kid Solo, Free of Stress
For many parents and guardians, putting a child on a flight alone may seem terrifying. Belligerent passengers, delays, turbulence: All loom large in a caregiver’s imagination. Life sometimes leaves no other option. Hudson Crites, 17, of Marshall, Va ...
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Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Often Go Untreated for Parents on Medicaid
The News For parents struggling with mental health or substance use disorders, access to treatment can often mean the difference between keeping and losing their children. But a new analysis of health and child welfare records found that a ...
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How Patty Murray Used Her Gavel to Win $1 Billion for Child Care
A self-described “mom in tennis shoes,” now the Senate Appropriations Committee leader, managed to win an increase in child care subsidies in a spending freeze.
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Books
Review: An Age-Old Riddle Ginned Up for Postapocalyptic Times
The choreographers Baye & Asa usher the Sphinx puzzler into a vaguely menacing landscape.
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Newyork
The Deep Conflict Between Our Work and Parenting Ideals
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ American policy is uniquely hostile to families. Other wealthy countries guarantee paid parental leave and sick days and heavily subsidize early childhood care — to the tune of about $14,000 per year per child, on ...
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Newyork
My In-Laws Gave Gifts to Two Grandchildren, but Not to a Third. Help!
Two years after one of her children received a generous birthday gift, a reader wonders whether to intervene on behalf of her overlooked child.
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Newyork
Migrant Children Sell Candy on the Subway. New York Has No Solutions.
Letting children work in the train system during school hours breaks several laws and rules. But a series of agencies said it was not their place to stop the practice.
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Newyork
Starvation Is Stalking Gaza’s Children
Standing over a tiny bundle wrapped in a sheet on a hospital bed, a young father drapes his hand across his face in despair. Mousa Salem, a Gaza photographer who videotaped this sad tableau and sent it to me, said the sheet swaddled 2-month-old ...
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Newyork
Three Mothers’ Plea to the F.D.A.: Save Our Children
More from our inbox: Regulating Content on Social MediaSanctions as Political TheaterRepublicans, Christians and I.V.F.A House Full of MemoriesCredit...Kaitlin BritoTo the Editor: Re “Why Can’t More Children Get the Treatment That Saved My Son’s ...
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Books
‘Abbott Elementary’ Teaches Reading, Writing and Roll Camera
Each season of the ABC sitcom employs about 150 children. Its core curriculum: schooling Hollywood in what a show with child actors can be.
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