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Gail Cornwall

Gail Cornwall works as a mother and writer in San Francisco. Connect with Gail on Twitter, or read more at gailcornwall.com.

Little girl placing ballot in a drop box for absentee voting (Getty Images/Cavan Images)

The case to let children vote: Why law professor Adam Benforado calls for a “minor revolution”

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Prisoners reflected in glasses on a shelf (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Your child’s glasses may have been made with forced prison labor

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Paper people chain, law books and judge's gavel (Getty Images/YGolub)

Fixing foster care wouldn’t actually be that hard — or that expensive

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Little girl holding a Disney Princess doll (Dick Loek/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

Is “Disney Princess Culture” messing with our daughters?

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High school student asleep in class (Getty Images/Image Source)

The teen sleep crisis: Early school start times are terrible for our kids’ health

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A young woman sits at her desk and takes notes. She has her head in her hand in concentration. (Getty Images/FatCamera)

Sprinting upstream: The incredible pressure faced by college-bound high schoolers

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Sad faces on sticky notes with one happy one (Getty Images / mikroman6)

The problem with positive psychology: When the pursuit of happiness turns toxic

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Young couple and son washing the dishes in the kitchen (Getty Images/Giselleflissak)

Is there really a fair way to divvy up household labor and childcare? Research says it’s possible

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Young woman feeling bored while staying home for safety during a global pandemic (Getty Images)

Scientists who study boredom can help you channel your feelings into something productive

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Little Sad Boy Kid Student In Protective Face Mask Looking Out Of School Yellow Bus Window (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Anna Kraynova/EyeEm)

As the culture war engulfs their schools, kids say adults aren’t listening to them at all

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Are We There Yet: Perfectionist Kids and Parenting (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The psychological toll of wanting your kid to be “perfect”

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Emily Oster | Parenting (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Rachel Hulin)

Why Emily Oster’s parenting wisdom is wildly popular with some and lambasted by others

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“Good enough” parenting starts with avoiding these 13 abusive behaviors

Gail Cornwall, Juli Fraga
Mother suffers from headache because of noise of little children (Getty Images)

The quest for “perfect parenting” is screwing us all

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Teacher and students chopping vegetables in cooking class (Getty Images)

The history of “home economics” is both surprisingly radical and conspicuously regressive

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Preparing pencils (Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)

What women know about the science of perfectionism

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Woman with Child on Leash (Getty Images)

Giving kids no autonomy at all has become a parenting norm — and the pandemic is worsening the trend

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Stressed out mother sipping on a cup of coffee on her messy bed while her three daughters are playing around her (Getty Images)

Why so many moms can’t have great sex

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Maybe it’s okay to judge parents after all

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Hillary Clinton (Reuters/Brian Snyder/Photo montage by Salon)

Two words for Hillary if she wants to connect with the financially struggling: “Postal banking”

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“You need to watch who you tell about your religion”: In the age of Trump, “the talk” Muslim parents face isn’t about sex at all

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