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A few years ago, Hallie Parker joined a WhatsApp group of millennial women who call themselves geriatric moms — almost all were close to 40 when they became parents. Half of them had two kids, including Parker, who at 33 was among the youngest. Half had only one kid, with…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Scott Kollins, chief medical officer at Aura. It has been edited for length and clarity.At first, remote learning during the beginning of the pandemic was a great fit for my son, who has autism and ADHD. His middle school teacher even…
I had been a stay-at-home mom of two kids in New York City before moving to my ex-husband’s hometown in Texas. I wasn’t prepared for all the changes that were going to come after, like him changing careers and wanting a divorce. There’s a cap on child support in TexasDepending…
Jenna Ortega has said she shut down her X (then Twitter) account after she got an “influx” of explicit images on the platform.Ortega, 21, made the comments during a recent conversation on The New York Times’s “The Interview” podcast.During the chat, she opened up on her feelings about artificial intelligence,…
As a young child, I couldn’t get enough of hearing my parents’ divorce story. I thought I was just a curious kid for many years, but looking back, I realize I was digging for something specific — the why. Why did they get divorced? What went wrong? How does it…
The fast-fashion giant uncovered the child labor issues in China during its sourcing audits between January and October 2023, it said in a new sustainability report. It is unclear if the cases involved two children or two instances of suppliers employing several children, defined as under 16 years old, according…
When I was in 7th grade, one of our classes was tasked with putting together what essentially amounted to vision boards for the rest of our lives. We spent a few days cutting photos out of magazines and gluing them into albums as if any of us really knew anything…
As a child therapist, my voicemail inbox hits capacity between the first weeks of August.I get more calls during these days than any other week of the calendar year. Even in a calendar that includes holidays, the grimmest days of winter, and the depths of the pandemic — these are…
I didn’t plan to have an only child. In fact, I was pregnant twice. The first time, I miscarried. The second time, I had a healthy pregnancy that resulted in a perfect baby boy, but for the first six months of that pregnancy, I struggled mentally. After a loss, the…
When I was a little girl, I used to ask my mom to adopt another child so that I could have an older sister. I wasn’t lonely — I had plenty of friends and got along great with other kids in the neighborhood and at school. But once I started…
