Yuko Nishitani (Kyushu): Global Citizens and Family Relations. Jeffrey Shulman (Georgetown): Meyer, Pierce, and the History of the Entire Human Race: Barbarism, Social Progress, and (the Fall and Rise of) Parental Rights. Catherine Ruth Pakaluk (Ave Maria) and Joseph Price (BYU): Are Mothers and Fathers Interchangeable? Parental Gender and Child Flourishing. More Americans are working late-night and early-morning hours — who’s looking after their kids? Alissa Quart on the rise of extreme daycare. Bryce Covert on why we pay people who care for children like parking lot attendants. Emmett Rensin and David Shor on blaming parents, and other neoliberal pastimes. John Pickering on how “parents these days” are judged too harshly. They work out, they look good with a pram, they know all the lyrics to Frozen — do you measure up to the new breed of hot dads? Ruth Graham on how “deadbeats” can still be good dads: Child support needs to catch up to reflect new roles for fathers.
Tara Urs (Seattle): Can the Child Welfare System Protect Children Without Believing What They Say? Shannon Weeks McCormack (Washington): Uncle Sam and the Childcare Squeeze: (Over-)Taxing the Working Family. Catherine E. Smith (Denver) and Susannah William Pollvogt (Washburn): Children as Proto-Citizens: Equal Protection, Citizenship, and Lessons From the Child-Centered Cases. Culture and achievement: Kay S. Hymowitz on how families shape their children’s prospects more profoundly than anything government can do. Sam P.K. Collins on the hidden trauma plaguing American kids. Margaret Talbot on the talking cure: The poorer parents are, the less they talk with their children — the mayor of Providence is trying to close the “word gap”. When I grow up: Rebecca Mead on the theme-park chain where children pretend to be adults. Spoiler alert: Helaine Olen on how children’s birthday parties are getting more and more extravagant — here’s how we let it happen.
