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More men need to take paternity leave — even if it hurts their careers

Katie McDonough
Paternity leave helps families and can hurt men's careers. This is exactly why more men need to do it

Shanesha Taylor’s plea deal revoked: Arizona mother of three heads back to trial

Katie McDonough
Taylor failed to set aside money in a trust fund for her children. Now Arizona wants to charge her with child abuse

Child therapists: Stop freaking out about Lena Dunham

Tracy Clark-Flory
Leading child sexual abuse experts weigh in on the childhood behaviors detailed in Dunham's memoir

Anne Lamott: “We stuffed scary feelings down, and they made us insane”

Sarah Hepola
The memoirist and Salon fixture talks about messed-up attitudes about grief, mid-term elections, and the joys of 60

What’s the matter with Kansas? A dispatch from the front lines of its fight for marriage equality

Steven Rosenfeld
Despite the state's fiercely conservative politics, its LGBT movement is slowly but surely gaining traction

Meet the Kansans fighting conservatives tooth and nail for gay rights

Steven Rosenfeld
Home to the Westboro Baptist Church, the state is as homophobic as any in the union. A brave few are taking a stand

The “Teen Mom” story we don’t see on TV: Why high school students need birth control and parental leave

Katie McDonough
Our squeamishness about teen pregnancy is hurting young parents and closing off a vital policy debate

“You sat in the splash zone”: The messy truth about breast-feeding

Kathleen Founds
I loved breast-feeding, but let's not romanticize it. For me, it involved comedy, a new immodesty -- and attachment

Why red-state conservatives are the biggest porn hounds

Valerie Tarico
Studies indicate people in religious states are more likely to search for adult materials online. Paging Dr. Freud!

“She wanted to be normal. We both did”: Why gender, sexuality, and desire matter

Daisy Hernández
You can love without boundaries, right or wrong, girl or boy. I tell my story for Gwen Araujo, who no longer can

Why science fiction comics are better than sci-fi movies

Mark Peters
Forget "X-Men" and "Guardians of the Galaxy"—read these mind-bending comics instead

Judge denies attorney’s request to delay hearing during maternity leave, then berates her for bringing her baby to court

Jenny Kutner
Because 4-week-old infants can care for themselves?

“Your child probably won’t get into the Ivy League”: How I learned to parent average kids

Hayley Krischer
A recent Times article on "hyper-parenting" offers some surprisingly useful advice

Girl distributes heroin at school thinking it’s candy

Joanna Rothkopf
Today in grossly irresponsible parenting...

My kid doesn’t like books and it’s okay

Mary Elizabeth Williams
I was always a competitive, obsessive reader, until my daughter showed me another way

It’s not racist to sue over a mixed-race baby

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A mom faces a backlash over a fertility clinic's mistake

The American family is a myth: Why our national moral panic must stop

Brittney Cooper
As a kid, I thought I'd be married with three kids by now. But now I see "family" as something totally different

Every parent should read this comic book

Mark Peters
From finding a babysitter to handling in-laws to flying through space in a tree, "Saga" makes parenting relatable

Where is the actual black ish on “Black-ish”?

Niela Orr
ABC's new show has been touted as the Great Black Hope of network comedy. Much to my disappointment, it's not

Rory and Lorelai’s rosy vision of motherhood: How “Gilmore Girls” haunted me

Shannon Keating
My relationship with my mom fell apart; theirs flourished. And yet somehow I couldn't stop watching

Roger Goodell’s upcoming farce: Inside the NFL’s cynical plans for Adrian Peterson

Elias Isquith
A little-noticed report on the league's plans for the indicted superstar shows it's learning all the wrong lessons

The “Everybody Loves Raymond” effect: Why TV gets marriage all wrong

Joel Keller
"Married" is just the latest sitcom to show the institution at its absolute worst. Whither "The Cosby Show"?

“If your child needs socking, sock him!”: How reading about pregnancy almost ruined me

Lydia Kiesling
My helpless descent into the wormhole of literature — online and off — written for moms-to-be

5 pieces of advice parents need to stop giving non-parents

John Kinnear
For starters, quit assuming all people want to have children or that life is somehow meaningless without them
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