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  1. advice
    ‘Should I Move Across the Country to Be Closer to My Grandchild?’Your daughter may want you to be part of her “village,” but moving to one of the most expensive cities in the country is quite the ask.
    By Emily Gould
  2. parenting
    The Accidental Day Care in My Living RoomWhen our sons’ Brooklyn nursery lost its license, we decided to play host until the problem was resolved. How long could it take?
    By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
  3. 2024 election
    J.D. Vance Wants to Take Women Back to the 1950sTrump’s VP pick has advocated against no-fault divorce, abortion, and universal child care.
    By Laura Bassett
  4. parenting
    Summer Child Care Is a Special Kind of HellThoughts and prayers to any parents who didn’t make camp plans in February. Also the parents who did.
    By Amil Niazi
  5. family
    Many infant cribs in nursery or daycare
    What Day-care Workers and Preschool Teachers Really Think About Their JobsSix women get candid on dwindling enrollment, priced-out parents, and crying kids.
    As told to Anya Kamenetz
  6. parenting
    Room To Grow's 25th Anniversary Gala - Arrivals
    Why Are People Mad About Ms. Rachel’s Save the Children Campaign?The YouTuber says she’s been bullied over a fundraiser that supports children in Gaza.
    By Danielle Cohen
  7. parenting
    Ms. Rachel Is Not Happy About New York’s Child-Care Budget CutsThe popular YouTube educator is wading into politics on behalf of city parents.
    By Emily Leibert
  8. advice
    ‘How Do I Find Child Care Without Losing My Mind?’The system needs to change, and while it’s our responsibility to work to change it, we don’t need to feel bad about ourselves in the process.
    By Emily Gould
  9. parenting
    Full-time Job, Zero Formal Child CareInside the hectic, improvised, cost-effective weekdays of the many working parents who have opted to keep winging it.
    By Rebecca Gale
  10. parenting
    I Know What You Did on the PlaygroundInside the chaos that often ensues after a parent posts about a “bad nanny” on Facebook.
    By Jen Wieczner
  11. scene report
    ‘We Joke It’s Like the Met Gala for Nannies’Dancing till 2 a.m. with over 200 of the city’s hardest-working women at the annual Nanny Ball.
    By Erica Schwiegershausen
  12. the hard part
    There Is No Break Coming for Parents — EverNew year, same shit.
    By Amil Niazi
  13. brooding
    What If We Make Affordable Child Care About Wellness?Then we might finally see some change.
    By Kathryn Jezer-Morton
  14. parenting
    What Is It This Time?When my younger child recently woke up barfing, I tried to figure out if she had RSV, flu, COVID, hand, foot, and mouth disease, or yet another thing.
    By Lydia Kiesling
  15. parenting
    Day Care Is BrokenIt’s hard to escape the feeling that the current system is conspiring to push women out of the workforce.
    By Erica Schwiegershausen
  16. money talks
    What It Takes to Run a Day-Care Center“I’m absolutely exhausted. I don’t know anyone who works in child care who isn’t.”
    By Charlotte Cowles
  17. health
    The Baby-Formula Shortage Could Ease by Late July44,000 pounds of Nestlé baby formula will arrive this week.
    By Bindu Bansinath and Mia Mercado
  18. power
    3.7 Million Kids Fell Below the Poverty Line in One MonthNow that benefits for low-income parents have expired, child poverty is the highest it’s been since 2020.
    By Danielle Cohen
  19. power
    How One Family Benefited From the Child Tax CreditNewliz Hernandez couldn’t have gone back to work without this program. Now it may be doomed.
    By Marie Solis
  20. fuck this guy
    What Joe Manchin Really Thinks About Poor ParentsThe senator reportedly told colleagues that child-tax-credit payments would be spent on drugs.
    By Claire Lampen
  21. parenting
    How Do You Navigate Child Care in a Pandemic?From day-care closures to arranging care for babies, we asked parents around the country how they’re managing it.
    By Evie Ebert
  22. power
    Are We Really Still Arguing About Paternity Leave?Seems like some men are really worked up over Pete Buttigieg’s parental leave.
    By Danielle Cohen
  23. this is hard
    Seriously, How Are Parents Doing This?Five parents on how they’re navigating their families’ social lives right now.
    By Sara Li
  24. power
    The Latest COVID Relief Package Is a Huge Help for ParentsThe American Rescue Plan reconfigures the child tax credit in a way some expect could halve child poverty in the U.S.
    By Claire Lampen
  25. power
    The Paid Leave Trump Doesn’t Want You to Know AboutThe government has done little to publicize a benefit that could help many overburdened parents — and it’s about to expire.
    By Angelina Chapin
  26. coronavirus
    New York Hospitals Will Not Ban Partners During Childbirth“Women will not be forced to be alone when they are giving birth. Not in New York. Not now, not ever.”
    By Hannah Gold and Claire Lampen
  27. so you want to be president
    Thinking About Kids? Here’s How the Candidates’ Child-Care Plans CompareChild care is expensive. Democrats don’t all agree on how to fix that.
    By Sarah Jones
  28. 2020 elections
    Are Any of the Paid Family Leave Plans Actually Any Good?A guide to the FAMILY Act, New Parents Act, and Cradle Act.
    By Amanda Arnold
  29. lawsuits
    Manhattan Mom Sues Nanny for Feeding Her Baby FormulaLynn Wojton says she is “very upset” her doula didn’t wake her up to breastfeed.
    By Amanda Arnold
  30. parenting
    Everything to Know About Elizabeth Warren’s Universal Child-Care PlanThe plan would be funded by an “ultra-millionaire tax.”
    By Amanda Arnold
  31. parenting
    The Wing Will Soon Offer Short-Term Child CareThe women’s-only co-working space is expanding to babysitting services and children’s classes this winter.
    By Lisa Ryan
  32. as told to
    What It’s Like to Be a Baby Nurse for Wealthy Manhattan Families“Where I come from in the Caribbean they do think it is a bit strange that these white people in New York City can’t take care of their own babies.”
    By Hannah Seligson
  33. paid leave
    Democrats Are About to One-Up Ivanka Trump on Child CareThey’re introducing a child-care bill that’s more comprehensive than Ivanka’s.
    By Claire Landsbaum
  34. parenthood
    What Do Working Families Need Even More Than Paid Leave?It starts with a “c” and ends with “care,” according to the New York Times.
    By Jen Gann
  35. What I Remember About the Moms Who Paid Me to BabysitLooking back, now that I’m a mom.
    By Laura Hazard Owen
  36. Ivanka Trump’s Paid Leave Reportedly Includes Dads NowIt looks like the plan was revised after facing criticism.
    By Claire Landsbaum
  37. Urban Outfitters Employees Say the Company Is Making It Harder to See Their KidsReportedly, the company’s headquarters will end flexible scheduling.
    By Jen Gann
  38. motherhood
    Single Moms Shouldn’t Have to Choose Between Child Care and Getting an EducationIt’s time to stop treating school like a luxury.
    By Natalie Pattillo
  39. politics
    Ivanka Trump Is Reportedly Already Pushing for Child-Care LegislationAccording to a source on Donald Trump’s transition team.
    By Claire Landsbaum
  40. mariah’s world
    Mariah Carey Explains Why She Can’t Give Up the Bad Side of Her FaceIt was originally caused by bad lighting and makeup.
    By Mariah Smith
  41. childcare
    This Is the Only U.S. State Where Child Care Is Actually AffordableAmerican families regularly spend more than 7 percent of their income on child care.
    By Claire Landsbaum
  42. childcare
    YMCA Offering Free Child Care in Some Locations for Election DayThe two-hour drop-off service will be available for kids from age 2 to 12.
    By Laura June
  43. motherhood
    Child Care Is Really Freakin’ Expensive and This Study Proves ItA new report finds that child care is expensive and sometimes hard to find.
    By Laura June
  44. nannies
    Why Doesn’t Keeping Up With the Kardashians Show the Nannies?In a show full of candor, the kids’ child care is invisible
    By Laura June
  45. this guy
    The Child-care Services Trump Says He Provides His Workers Don’t ExistThey’re programs for his hotel guests, not his employees.
    By Gabriella Paiella
  46. the state of women is meh
    Obama’s Legacy for Women Shows a Feminist President Is Not EnoughHis speech last week bore a striking resemblance to the promises he made to women on the campaign trail eight years earlier.
    By Ann Friedman
  47. child care
    Hillary Clinton’s Child-Care Plan Would Be MonumentalFor now, it’s just talk, but that’s a start.
    By Laura June
  48. women at work
    Women Built a Career Site to Combat the Motherhood PenaltyAnd other things men hold against women in the workplace.
    By Dayna Evans
  49. motherhood
    Once I Was a Nanny — Now I’m Just Another Anxious Mom.Even though I want to be the cool mom, the one who gets it.
    By Meaghan O'Connell
  50. advice
    Ask Polly: Should I Have a Baby or Establish My Career First?Choose both. Choose the career AND choose the baby.
    By Heather Havrilesky
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