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How Covid-19 Supercharged a Foster System Crisis How Covid-19 Supercharged a Foster System Crisis
Parents are losing their kids as they struggle to navigate bureaucracies upended by the pandemic.
Mar 15, 2021 / Michelle Chen
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My Son Is His Own Person, and I’m Glad to Know Him My Son Is His Own Person, and I’m Glad to Know Him
Eventually, our kids realize they’re free to become who they are. Our job is to let them.
Mar 10, 2021 / Feature / Carvell Wallace
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Parenting Through Sickness, Health, and Covid-19 Parenting Through Sickness, Health, and Covid-19
To avoid replicating this awful moment, our failures must become the source of our children’s political possibilities.
Mar 10, 2021 / Feature / Imani Perry
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Meet the Climate Kids Who Are Mobilizing a Generation of Parents Meet the Climate Kids Who Are Mobilizing a Generation of Parents
Across the country and the world, children are waking moms and dads to the urgent need to take climate action.
Mar 10, 2021 / Feature / Angely Mercado
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What Black Schools Mean to Black Kids What Black Schools Mean to Black Kids
Being in the racial majority at school can make all the difference for Black children.
Mar 9, 2021 / Feature / Jamilah Lemieux
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From Raising Anti-Racist Kids to Being an Anti-Racist Family From Raising Anti-Racist Kids to Being an Anti-Racist Family
We need to do more than prevent bias in our kids—we need to live our values here and now.
Mar 9, 2021 / Feature / Courtney E. Martin
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I Shouldn’t Have to Dehumanize My Son to Get Him Support I Shouldn’t Have to Dehumanize My Son to Get Him Support
Instead of focusing on the challenges facing disabled people, we should emphasize goals.
Mar 9, 2021 / Feature / David M. Perry
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How Covid Made Life Even More Unpredictable for Kids in Foster Care How Covid Made Life Even More Unpredictable for Kids in Foster Care
Everything from reunification to social worker visits to permanent placements got derailed.
Mar 9, 2021 / Feature / Nefertiti Austin
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Parenting as a Radical Act of Love Parenting as a Radical Act of Love
In our special issue, we consider the ways in which parenthood can push us to recognize our interdependence and spur us to fight harder for justice and equality.
Mar 8, 2021 / 2021 Year in Review / Emily Douglas
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Across Prison Walls, I Felt My Parents’ Love Across Prison Walls, I Felt My Parents’ Love
For Chesa Boudin, his mother and father were radical not for their politics but for the extraordinary lengths they took to parent him while incarcerated.
Mar 8, 2021 / Feature / Chesa Boudin