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Oct 2024
30m 7s

The Parents Aren’t All Right

The New York Times
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For years, research on hyper-attentive parenting has focused on all the ways that it can hurt children. Now, the U.S. government is reframing that conversation and asking if our new era of parenting is actually bad for the parents themselves. Claire Cain Miller, who covers families and education for The New York Times, explains why raising children is a risk ... Show More
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