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The Famous Friend in My Head

I see him all the time: We’re two dads sharing a Brooklyn neighborhood and a routine. Shouldn’t we be friends? By Matthew Schnipper

Fertility

parenting Why Would Anyone Look for a Sperm Donor on Facebook? Meet the women logging on for fresh semen and the men who get their kicks offering their seed. By Anya Kamenetz
celebrity Selling Sunset’s Mary Fitzgerald Is Having Uterine Surgery The reality star says she made plans for the procedure after suffering a septic miscarriage. By Emily Leibert

fertility What If You Hadn’t Frozen Your Eggs? For many patients, egg freezing provides the comfort of possibility. But for some, the procedure can be so uncomfortable it no longer feels worth it. By Rae Nudson
health ‘All That Money Can Only Give You a Chance, Not a Guarantee’ Three women who traveled abroad to undergo fertility treatments share what they spent and how it went. By Charlotte Lytton

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Pregnancy

pregnancy announcements Gypsy Rose Blanchard Is Pregnant “All of the things that I wanted in a mother, I want to give to this baby,” she said in her announcement. By Olivia Craighead
celebrity Baby Hudgens Has Arrived The actress and husband Cole Tucker welcomed their first child just in time for the holiday. By Emily Leibert

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Babies

how i got this baby The Single Dad Who Had a Baby Via Surrogate “I always say I’m doing this solo, not alone. Alone sounds sad. Solo sounds like more of an adventure.” By Kristen Mascia
how i got this baby The Mom Who Got Pregnant While on Birth Control at Age 46 “I didn’t think about how much work it was going to be until I was all up in it. And then, suddenly, I was like, What did I do?” By Yolanda Wikiel

family What Day-care Workers and Preschool Teachers Really Think About Their Jobs Six women get candid on dwindling enrollment, priced-out parents, and crying kids. By Anya Kamenetz
how i got this baby The Dads Who Adopted a Nonverbal 7-Year-Old With Autism “It was quite a frightening undertaking, to be honest. I remember thinking, Can we really handle this?” By Yolanda Wikiel

Kids

parenting Summer Child Care Is a Special Kind of Hell Thoughts and prayers to any parents who didn’t make camp plans in February. Also the parents who did. By Amil Niazi
parenting Passed Out on Gummies All across America, kids are going to bed with a story, a kiss, and a potent dose of melatonin. Is there anything wrong with that? By Juno DeMelo

parenting The Transgender Family Handbook 144 specific suggestions for how to be a supportive parent to your trans kid, according to trans young people and their loved ones.
parks and recreation How to Throw a Child’s Park Birthday Party in New York How tricky could it be to gather 25 kindergartners and their caregivers in Prospect Park on a Saturday afternoon? Actually quite. By Laura Fenton

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Teens

parenting The Last Kid in Ninth Grade Without an iPhone They’re not in the group chat. But they’re not social pariahs either. By Liz Krieger
parenting When Kids Are Addicted to their Phones, Who Is to Blame? Parents can’t change their kids’ relationships to screens without also addressing their own. By Kathryn Jezer-Morton

parenting Is a Sick Kid Better Than an Absent Kid? Health policies have grown more lax in an attempt to improve school attendance. Parents and teachers are split on whether it’s working. By Melissa Dahl
power Police Give Update on Oklahoma Nonbinary Student’s Death They say a preliminary report shows 16-year-old Nex Benedict “did not die as a result of trauma” from an alleged assault at school. By Emily Leibert

Parenting Advice

celebrity Paris Hilton Has One Word for Critics of Her Parenting And for once, it’s not sliving. By Emily Leibert
parenting Emily Oster Softens Up In her new book, The Unexpected, the economist turned parenting expert examines life-threatening pregnancy complications that defy optimization. By Miranda Rake

parenting Talking to My Kids About the Unbearable When cruelty is inescapable, what are we supposed to tell our children? By Amil Niazi
profile Park Slope Parents Is Old Enough to Order a Drink Susan Fox wanted to build a community. She never expected to birth an archetype. By Emily Gould

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Parenting Trends

niche drama What’s the Deal With the Viral Influencer Couple Who ‘Boycotted’ Father’s Day? A Matt and Abby Howard primer. By Allie Jones
parenting I Don’t Need Your Opinion on My Kid’s Screen Time Talking about how you’ll parent someday is one thing. Surviving a kid’s tantrum so bad you question every choice you’ve ever made is another. By Amil Niazi

parenting The Rise of the Accidentally Permissive Parent Some moms and dads who strive to be “gentle parents” unknowingly turn into indulgent ones, largely because gentle parenting is just too hard. By Elizabeth Passarella
parenting Are We All Secretly Co-sleeping? The answer, according to Instagram and TikTok, is yes. Now if only we could talk about it outside of the comments section. By Wendy Syfret

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