Jessica Dixon Weaver (SMU): Grandma in the White House: Legal Support for Intergenerational Caregiving. Beth Burkstrand-Reid (Nebraska): Dirty Harry Meets Dirty Diapers: Masculinities, At-Home Fathers, and Making the Law Work for Families. Rosemarie Tong reviews Why Have Children? by Christine Overall. Do two-parent families help children get ahead in life? The surprising answer: not everywhere. Lenore Skenazy argues that when it comes to children, we have gone too far in the pursuit of safety at all costs. Almost all parents fall woefully short of their lofty child-rearing goals in some way or another; it's not ideal — but sometimes, it's okay. What do grown children owe the mothers and fathers who made their childhood a living hell? DINKs, DILDOs, and other readers respond to Joel Kotkin and Harry Siegel’s Newsweek story about America’s declining birthrate and offer their reasons for remaining child-free. Charlotte Witt on baby boxes and the right to know our origins.
