As the U.S. grapples with growing inequality and opportunity gaps,  Nicholas Kristof  has been polling his readers for topics he’s neglected in his punditry.  Among the suggestions: family breakdown and the rise of single-parent households.   “This is an issue that…the right has hijacked and the left has been reluctant to confront,”  writes the New York [... click post title to read more ...]

The Family Act is slated for its debut on October 3, the day my son turns 30.  When he was 13 weeks old, in the Paleolithic Age, I returned to my editor’s job, from a maternity leave cobbled together with Temporary Disability Insurance and my own sweat equity.  Working nine to five—or later—in an office [... click post title to read more ...]

“The Data Proves It: Parenting Matters,” proclaimed yesterday’s email from the Brookings Institution, heralding the release of a new paper by Richard Reeves and Kimberly Howard.   Yes, it does.  We’ve got a mountain of research that links the quality of parenting to children’s social, emotional, and cognitive development, not to mention their academic and life [... click post title to read more ...]