With the Government Shut Down, Is Your Water Safe?

The government shutdown is putting further stress on a regulatory system already strained to the breaking point.

Michelle Chen

School Is Crushing My Daughter’s Spirit. What Should I Do?

Another reader asks what she can do about an acquaintance who drunkenly groped her on New Year’s Eve.

Liza Featherstone

Tarana Burke Talks About How to Support Survivors—When They’re Your Kids

The founder of the #MeToo movement has guidance for how parents can make their children feel safe talking about sexual assault and trauma.

Dani McClain

‘Those Kids Are No Longer Yours’: An Investigation into Uganda’s Adoption Market

How parents lose their children to families in the United States.

Anna Cavell

Trump’s EPA Is Poisoning Our Children

Rolling back environmental laws leaves kids vulnerable to lead, asbestos, insecticides, and other toxic pollutants.

Herman Schwartz

The US Deported 468 Parents—but Kept Their Children

Lawyers and advocates have launched a massive effort to find them.

Zoë Carpenter

Trump’s War on Children

White House policies form an unprecedented assault on kids—but, of course, not the white kids.

Aziz Huq

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Peter Kuper

For Some Migrant Families, a Second Separation Awaits

Facing a legal labyrinth, deported parents may be forced to leave their children behind so that they can seek asylum.

Renée Feltz

‘These Kids Are Watching Their Parents Die’

For children growing up in the shadow of the opioid crisis, public schools have become the safety net of last resort.

Zoë Carpenter