A growing number of U.S. companies are offering gender-neutral paid parental leave, prompting more fathers to take advantage of a benefit often assumed to primarily serve women.
Parenting
To care for their disabled children, the fathers I met had to grow beyond the usual ideas of “what men do.”
Research shows that family acceptance and affirmation can have a life-saving impact on transgender youth.
Disrupting the gendered stereotypes that children encounter requires attention and intention, but it doesn't have to be complicated.
Raising resilient, anti-racist children means having conversations about racial injustice.
With many families spending more time together now, there are ample opportunities for tension and hurt feelings. But these moments also offer invitations to reconnect.
Regardless of schooling situation, these four strategies belong in every child's mental health toolkit.
This pandemic re-emphasizes the ways in which global tragedy can draw clear markers between one generation and the next.
A family therapist encourages parents and others raising kids to focus on the 4 R’s: routines, rules, relationships and rituals.
Distancing ourselves from an extractive economy and colonial mindset presents an opportunity for parents to reconnect with our children and with the little child inside of us.
Planned Parenthood’s new Wellbeing Centers in Los Angeles offer much-needed resources and care for teens and their parents.
In the face of climate change, children need positive stress as well as compassion to maintain mental health and inform their responses.
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