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Topic: Childcare

New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani interacts with pre-K students on Nov. 13, 2025 in Flatbush, Brooklyn. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Affordable care is a political winner

Anna Wadia, Julie Kashen
Second Lady Usha Vance delivers remarks to military personnel and their families in Jacksonville, North Carolina, on Nov. 19, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Usha Vance doesn't do dishes

Amanda Marcotte
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It shouldn’t be this hard to raise kids

Nicole Karlis
Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press conference on Universal Child Care at Columbus Park Playground on November 19, 2024 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Mamdani child care plan could change US

Simon Black - The Conversation
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The author's daughter Evie at Trinity College in Dublin. (Photo courtesy of Kelly Lawler)

One more way America hates kids

Kelly Lawler
Father holding newborn baby at hospital (Getty Images/SelectStock)

Both parents need paid leave experts say

Nicole Karlis
Father packing daughters backpacks for school (Getty Images/MoMo Productions)

Modern dads help out more. Is it enough?

Nicole Karlis
A shot of a group of women sitting together with their babies in the waiting room of a baby clinic (Getty Images/SolStock)

Modern motherhood is a major struggle

Nicole Karlis
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Doctor uses stethoscope to listen to baby (Getty Images/Svetlana Repnitskaya)

How to protect your baby from SIDS

Rachel Moon - The Conversation
Young couple and son washing the dishes in the kitchen (Getty Images/Giselleflissak)

How to divvy up childcare equally

Gail Cornwall
Small girl writing with felt tip pen while relaxing on the carpet at home (Getty Images/skynesher)

"Test-to-stay" program possible solution

Jane Roberts - Undark
Children play in a large mirrored object at the Science Museum on it's official re-opening day on August 19, 2020 in London, England. The Science Museum reopens its doors to the public today, nearly five months after the Coronavirus pandemic shut down all public spaces. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Museums as a childcare, schooling option

Ashlie D. Stevens
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Parent's ultimate guide to Youtube

Caroline Knorr - Common Sense Media
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A whole summer of family movie nights

Frannie Ucciferri - Common Sense Media
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Make childcare funds a priority in 2020

Amanda Marcotte
Jazmine Headley, center, joins attorney Brian Neary and her mother, Jacqueline Jenkins, outside a courthouse in Trenton, N.J. (AP/Mike Catalini)

How we punish working mothers

Amanda Marcotte
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How to set rules for your babysitter

Sierra Filucci - Common Sense Media
Rebekah Webb, left, shares a family-style meal with Zoe Turner during lunch with other five-year-olds at the Olathe Family YMCA in Olathe, Kan., Wednesday, June 24, 2015. As early childhood teachers lament toddlers too large to fit in playground swings, officials are mulling changes designed to make meals served to millions of kids in day care healthier. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner) (AP)

Childcare providers regulated poorly

Linda A. White, Adrienne Davidson, Michal Perlman - The Conversation
(Auditory Neuroscience Lab, Northwestern University via AP)

Help baby's brain by reading

Lisa S. Scott - The Conversation
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Questions before buying phones for kids

Sierra Filucci - Common Sense Media
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Must-Have apps for family travel

Christine Elgersma - Common Sense Media
FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2016, file photo, Murtaza Ahmadi, a five-year-old Afghan Lionel Messi fan plays soccer, at the Afghan Football Federation Stadium in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan Football Federation set up a meeting between Messi and Ahmadi who became an Internet sensation when photos circulated of him wearing an improvised Messi shirt made from a plastic bag. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File) (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

kids need couch time

Adam Naylor - The Conversation
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Dorothy Bolden taught me to fight for do

Jacqueline Arnold - In These Times
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You might perpetuate misogyny if you say

Liz Posner - Alternet
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