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Gender Limitations In Pretend Play—And How Allison Williams Helped Me As A Father

Despite the swordplay failings in Peter Pan Live , I must applaud NBC for removing a brick in my daughter's gender wall.

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Life Reimagined: On The Erosion Of Reproductive Rights In America

The discussion needs to shift from one of legality to one of reducing abortions.

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Sorry, But We Never Raised Free-Range Kids

Our frustrating, paradoxical culture simultaneously disdains helicopter parenting and rings the alarm over children left to walk alone.

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I Lived In Poverty To Save My Son From Daycare

Why do we find it more acceptable for parents to be emotionally unavailable to their children than we do for them to choose to live below the poverty line?

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Co-Parenting Children With An Abusive Ex-Husband

Marrying, procreating with, and divorcing an abusive man has many consequences that you didn't expect.

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I've Told My Son Santa Claus Is Fake—And He Doesn't Believe Me

As a parent, you tend to assume that you have some say in forming your child's mental landscape. Then Santa comes along.

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Do You Love My Black Santa Claus?

Santa Claus is an envoy of our dominant, white cultural traditions. Let him be a better diplomat.

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A Father's Responsibility To Feminism

We can't talk about men without talking about boys.

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