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15 votes
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A letter to my mother — Just in case
5 votes -
In a grief-filled year, brands from Etsy to Pandora let you skip Mother's Day emails
6 votes -
Facing a housing crunch almost a century ago, Stockholm built 'barnrikehus' for low-income families – today they are some of the city's more sought-after properties
9 votes -
Two women gave birth on the same day in a place called Come By Chance. They didn’t know each other, and never would. Half a century later, their children made a shocking discovery
10 votes -
Joe Biden wants the country to heal from its political divisions. But many people say they aren’t ready to reconnect with their estranged friends and family members.
23 votes -
Miscarriage bereavement leave bill passes unanimously in New Zealand Parliament
15 votes -
Against child hostages
9 votes -
Considering the silence of teenage boys in the wake of my son's traumatic injury
13 votes -
As the father of a trans man, I fear for the consequences of this cruel judgement
17 votes -
Crying in H Mart: Sobbing near the dry goods, I ask myself, “Am I even Korean anymore if there’s no one left in my life to call and ask which brand of seaweed we used to buy?"
11 votes -
Thousands apply to be a Finn for ninety days – Americans, Canadians and Britons among those lured by campaign to attract foreign tech workers
11 votes -
Germany and Finland have repatriated five women and eighteen children from Syrian camps housing suspected family members of Islamic State militants
6 votes -
My family’s slave
10 votes -
Denmark's prime minister has apologised to twenty-two children who were removed from their homes in Greenland in the 1950s in a failed social experiment
11 votes -
"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women."
19 votes -
Friending and forgiving racists
9 votes -
How to talk to friends and family who share conspiracy theories: Fringe movements will persist long after Election Day. Here’s how to help.
8 votes -
I cry for the mountains - A California rancher's account of the wildfires' devastating impact on his family, his cattle, and the forests
8 votes -
Remembering my father
11 votes -
A desperate rescue: A father's heartbreaking attempt to save his family from a raging fire
9 votes -
If you're a parent, what is it like?
If I see myself in someone's child here then I'm deleting this thread, no questions asked /s You should probably say/indicate your and your children's age and sex (can be plural, obviously.) You...
If I see myself in someone's child here then I'm deleting this thread, no questions asked /s
You should probably say/indicate your and your children's age and sex (can be plural, obviously.)
You can follow the Q&A format below but you don't have to.
A few questions that come to (my very uninitiated) mind are:
How much time do you spend on them?
If you aren't their biological parent:
(i.e you're
@aphoenixnot hetero and a parentdidn't want to go through fkin birthing peoplean adoptive parent, for example)- Where did you (uhh) find them?
- If it was an orphanage, what was it like there? (Can you even find children elsewhere if they don't have parents?)
- How many children were there to choose from?
- What led you to choose the child you picked in specific instead of someone else?
(Dear God, is this an ethical question to ask?)
How do you parent them?
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Do you follow what they're doing on the Internet or how much they use it? How much?
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Do you encourage them to have a good diet? How much?
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Do you encourage them to do more chores? How much?
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When you do this, how cooperative are they? If they aren't, what do you do to convince them?
How do you and your partner split the time spent taking care of them?
What was the most unexpected thing about parenting to you?
More personal questions below. (You can avoid these, I probably would too tbh)
If you had a particular preference/expectation for what you wanted/expected your child to be and got something else, what did you do?
How did birth(-ing?) go? What was it like?
What was being/seeing your partner be pregnant like?
Is there anything you regret doing when parenting them?
Why did you have them?
30 votes -
My mother and my motherland - Jiayang Fan on the struggles of growing up as a poor immigrant, and how her desperate attempt to protect her hospital-bound mother was repurposed as Chinese propaganda
5 votes -
Back to the land - Alice Driver writes about her father, a potter, and his ongoing project of building his own tomb as his final creative act
6 votes -
The value of extended families
6 votes -
My nonbinary child: An anthropologist muses on what her career and child have taught her about gender stereotypes and fluidity
7 votes -
Coming out at ninety years old... to my gay daughter
7 votes -
Why Nigerians are muting their mothers on WhatsApp
13 votes -
Young people around the world are less religious than their parents in several measures
10 votes -
Family buys all of a Chicago paletero’s ice pops on Father’s Day, collects nearly $40K for him: ‘He refuses to stop working’
4 votes -
Why are we so quick to scrutinise how low-income families spend their money?
19 votes -
New York’s Gender and Family Project advises parents how to support their children’s gender expression
7 votes -
Families of children with disabilities face acute challenges under COVID-19
8 votes -
For those who (privately) aspire to become more reclusive
12 votes -
A short history of child protection in the UK, with discussion about the impact of temporary coronavirus law
6 votes -
Man recreates supermarket at home for 87-year-old mother battling dementia
6 votes -
Titus, Episode One - Dad's Dead
3 votes -
Family violence perpetrators using COVID-19 as 'a form of abuse we have not experienced before'
10 votes -
With the UK on coronavirus lockdown, some young people have been forced to isolate alongside parents who don't accept their sexuality
12 votes -
Coronavirus has upended our world. It's okay to grieve
10 votes -
The curse of an open floor plan
3 votes -
Cheating on my parents: My own abusive mother and father were being replaced, and they knew it
11 votes -
Four years, two continents: A gay Chinese couple's journey for a surrogate son
5 votes -
The tears of our mothers
7 votes -
A new book by Greta Thunberg's mother reveals the reality of family life during her daughter's transformation from bullied teenager to climate icon
14 votes -
Eight things toxic mothers have in common
10 votes -
An app can be a home-cooked meal
12 votes -
A photographer has spent twenty years documenting stillbirths. For grieving families, the photos preserve the only memories they have of their child
9 votes -
Why it's cheaper to have a baby in Finland than in the US
11 votes -
The nuclear family was a mistake
14 votes