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Getty There are many financial considerations when planning for a new baby. Everything from diapers to daycare, furniture to formula, the latest car seat -- and of course, accumulating wealth for future endeavors (like college) -- are top of mind for parents. For self-employed parents, there may be additional hurdles to consider, like how to…

iStock Researchers determined that having children was associated with a greater likelihood of surviving to the age of 76. “One thing that is relatively clear is that having children is more beneficial to longevity than not having children at all,” study author Professor Jianzhi Zhang said. “What we measured was the probability of living to the age…

There’s a fine balance between confidence and humility. STUDIO GRAND WEB/Shutterstock Parents today spend more time with their children than ever before. Yet, at the same time, they worry more than…

Credit: Joy Ho for NPR I wanted to report this story last month, but I was too sick with COVID. My kid gave it to me. My colleagues on the health reporting team would have tackled the story, but th…

If you are a parent, your greatest fear in life is likely something happening to one of your kids. According to one 2018 poll from OnePoll and the Lice Clinics of America (not my usual data source,…

Piggy banks may still be useful for some — but Greenlight, an Atlanta-based debit card and financial trainer app, is aimed at kids and parents as the latter teach the former about how to grow and manage money in 2022 and beyond.

For as long as COVID-19 vaccines have existed, Melissa Chernofsky has been practically counting down the days until she can get one for her 5-year-old son. “If it was like getting Lollapalooza tick…

Adobe Stock / Big Think I was really taken with this question because I’ve experienced the same thing, but in reverse. I asked my dad three years ago to write an autobiography — an in-house thing for Thomsons to read down the generations. He took to the idea and took to writing. A week later,…

Getty Images There are many financial considerations when planning for a new baby. Everything from diapers to daycare, furniture to formula, the latest car seat — and of course, accumulating wealth for future endeavors (like college) — are top of mind for parents.

Older online shopper (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)…Getty Images For most computer literate elders, online shopping is a great convenience and is usually fine — until something goes wrong.…

In ways both large and small, American society still assumes that the default adult has a partner and that the default household contains multiple people. If you were to look under the roofs of Ame…

One of the unexpected delights of being a parent is having a front row seat to seeing a child’s joy—whether it’s excitement at zoo, the experience of riding a train, or just getting a slushie on a …

Polarized politics and a growing awareness of how difficult relationships can impact our mental health are fueling family estrangement, say psychologists. It was a heated Skype conversation about race relations that led Scott to cut off all contact with his parents in 2019. His mother was angry he’d supported a civil rights activist on social media, he says; she said “a lot of really awful racist things”, while his seven-year-old son was in earshot.

Mandy* says her mother has always had a controlling streak. In something of a nightmare scenario for most kids, when Mandy was 10, her mum got a job at her school. “My mother was telling me w…