More than three million years ago, an ancestor of our Homo Spaiens species, called Australopithecus afarensis, was already walking around on two legs. But the…
CARE-FUL
The cost of child care is driving Americans away from parenthood
American adults are having fewer kids—or foregoing parenthood entirely. A new survey conducted by Morning Consult for The New York Times sheds light on the…
JUSTICE FOR ALL
The biggest threats against the future of affirmative action in the US
The Trump administration announced Tuesday (July 3) that it will encourage US school superintendents and college presidents to discount race in their admissions decisions, according…
DANE TO BE DIFFERENT
In Denmark and throughout Europe, assimilation is becoming mandatory
The Danish government is introducing a new set of laws that would regulate all aspects of life in 25 low-income and heavily Muslim enclaves known…
STOLEN YEARS
Child homelessness in England is at its highest since the global financial crisis
The number of homeless children in England has reached levels not seen since the global financial crisis of 2007. And the effects will be felt…
FROM HUNGER
The US farm bill could endanger poor American kids for decades
The US Senate has passed the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, its version of the $428-billion farm bill, clearing the way to reconcile it with…
THE PAIN
Accounts from The Truth Project reveal the lifelong consequences of childhood abuse
In 2015, the British government set up the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse to investigate why institutions from local councils to churches and boarding…
CHECK YOUR NOSTALIGIA
The instant gratification generation has more patience than kids from the ’60s
Kids really love marshmallows. That’s probably why one of the most famous psychological experiments of all used the treat to measure children’s personality traits. The…
OUT OF CONTROL
The surprising history of the “disaster baby boom” legend
About nine months after Hurricane Irma, one of the strongest Atlantic basin hurricanes ever recorded, hit Florida and shut down power for millions, the state’s…
POT, KETTLE, BLACK
Traumatizing children is very much “the American way”
After weeks of growing outrage in the face of the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy of separating the children of undocumented immigrants from their parents at…
DAMAGE CONTROL
“The only buffer you have is a parent. Take that away, and everything falls apart.”
Donald Trump on Wednesday (June 20) issued an executive order rescinding the policy of separating the children of immigrants and refugees from their parents at…
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
The most shocking abuse allegations against shelters for immigrant children
Separating the children of immigrants from their parents under the Trump administration’s now-rescinded “zero tolerance” policy was devastating in its own right. But one of…
