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Stop Calling Epstein’s Victims Young Women. They’re Children.

In no world is a 14-year-old an underage woman. She is a child.

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Mayor Michael Tubbs Is Not Done Fighting

Five years ago, Michael Tubbs piloted the first-ever mayor-led guaranteed income program in the U.S. It was a great success. But he's not done fighting for parents.

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The Exonerated Five’s Yusef Salaam Talks Parenting, Politics, and Pursuing Change

Salaam spoke to Fatherly about raising kids, prison reform, and what gives him hope for the future.

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Elizabeth Warren on Inequity and What Dads Need to Do

Fatherly sat down with Elizabeth Warren to talk about the problems parents face today and how dads can be a big part of the solution.

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Max Greenfield on Homeschooling and Nutritional Subterfuge

The 'Neighborhood' star talks sneaking his kid veggie burgers and taking on the role of de facto educator amid a pandemic.

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Will Summer Camp Happen This Year? Camp Directors Have to Hope

The trip up Sugar Hill Road in Wallingford, Vermont is a long, but pleasant. It winds through the Green Mountains, slaloming the trees at the bottom of the wild forest slipping into their late spring and summer clothes — crocus, trillium, Dutchman’s breeches. A few winding turns after the intersection south of Wallingford, the pavement road turns to gravel and then mud, making it hard to pass before the sun and parents arrive in early June.

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The College Admissions Scandal America Ignored

We all know Felicity Huffman did wrong, but in Dallas alone wealthy parents have extracted millions and millions in value from magnet schools not designed for their children.

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Why Eric Klinenberg Believes Social Infrastructure Will Save the World

When will we value libraries as much as we value new iPhones and cars?

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On Family-Run Turkey Farms, The Circle of Life Is Everywhere

Mary's Turkeys, a major turkey supplier for Thanksgiving, is a family farm. That means a lot for the kids who grew up on it.

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When Swipe-Right Culture Goes to High School

Tinder claims to block underage users. The only workaround? Lying. And everyone is doing it.

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How American Politicians Abandoned Family Values for Tax Cuts and Debt Relief

Forty years ago, policymakers went out for a pack of smokes and a tax cut. They never came back.

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The Best Halloween Candy Bag Is a Pillowcase. Always Has Been.

Here’s why the humble pillowcase provides a much better candy receptacle than anything else — for parents and kids alike.

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What It Was Like Growing Up With My Father, Leonard Nimoy

“My dad was 25 years old when I was born, but we were generations apart.”

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The Parkland Survivors Are Changing How the Media Covers School Shootings

In 1999, the media responded to a massacre by creating a playbook for coverage. Now, survivors in Florida are shredding it.

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