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Vox’s coverage of child care, paid leave, and more.

A program that saved child care for millions is expiring. What now?

Fixing the child care crisis starts with understanding it

5 experts share how to make day care less germy

You don’t need to be a parent to build meaningful relationships with kids

Nobody’s perfect. Here’s how to be a good influence on your kids anyway.

Do we ask too much of parents?

The true physical and mental costs of pregnancy

Raising Raffi is a portrait of the author as modern father

Being a good father means rethinking masculinity

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It’s a terrifying time to have kids in America. It doesn’t have to be this way.

How do you raise kids in a country that seems to hate them?

One Good Thing: The cartoon dog who taught me how to be a dad

What is school for?

The parents of the youngest children are not okay

They lost parents to Covid-19. Are we abandoning them?

The number of American kids whose caregivers have died in the pandemic has surpassed 140,000.

Democrats’ child care plan could help millions — or it could be a big mess

A simple solution to endless school quarantines

How safe is it for kids to go to school during delta?

It’s time to accept that school won’t be normal in the fall

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The real reason American parents hate each other

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