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Millennials are raising pets instead of kids. It's not going well for the pets.
Birth rates are declining, and millennials own more pets than any other age group. But experts say …
Aimee Pearcy
5 mins read
Childcare workers say JD Vance's idea to have family help out more with kids isn't feasible: 'Grandparents should not be the fallback'
Childcare providers say JD Vance doesn't understand what's wrong with the industry after he suggest…
Eliza Relman,Ayelet Sheffey,J…
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Boomers spent their lives accumulating stuff. Now their kids are stuck with it.
Baby boomers spent decades buying stuff. Now they have to have difficult conversations with their k…
Emily Stewart
5 mins read
Millions of student-loan borrowers are waiting for broad debt cancellation. The next president won't have any immediate answers.
Millions of student-loan borrowers were counting on debt cancellation under Biden. Then came the la…
Ayelet Sheffey
3 mins read
Kamala Harris' pitch to families struggling to care for both kids and aging parents: Medicare for in-home eldercare
Kamala Harris proposed Medicare coverage for in-home eldercare, which cost families an average of n…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Elon Musk says people should worry less about the cost of having children, and 'start immediately'
Elon Musk has 11 known children, and has long publicly expressed concerns about global populations …
Theron Mohamed
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Michelle Yeoh said not being able to have kids has been the 'biggest sadness' of her life
"I have always given it my 110%. I did everything to make it work, and sometimes even that is not e…
Erin Liam
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Basic income lets some parents afford toys and new shoes for their kids. One mother said it was 'life-changing.'
After paying the bills and finding housing, some parents spend basic income on clothes, toys, and a…
Allie Kelly
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More than half of child-free Americans under 50 who don't think they'll ever have kids say they just don't want them
Fifty-seven percent of Americans under 50 and without kids said they just don't want to have any, a…
John Towfighi
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Leaving Los Angeles: Why the film industry is ditching Hollywood
The share of productions being shot in Los Angeles is on the decline. That's allowing entertainment…
Lucia Moses
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I left a 6-figure career to raise my kids with special needs. I miss having a job, but my life is better now.
In 2021 two of my kids were diagnosed with complex medical conditions. I miss having a job, but I w…
Riva Soucie
4 mins read
JD Vance's plan to lower childcare costs: have grandma and grandpa 'help a little bit more'
Trump's VP pick JD Vance said there should be more options for older family members to assist with …
Eliza Relman,Juliana Kaplan,A…
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5 famous people with ten or more children!
From Elon Musk to Charlie Chaplin, here are some famous folk who have taken the "the more the merri…
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School choice is gaining momentum, and it's on the ballot in 3 states. We want to hear what you think.
Colorado, Kentucky, and Nebraska have school choice on the ballot. A vote for the initiatives would…
Ayelet Sheffey
4 mins read
A booming Montana city's struggle with homelessness is a warning — and a model — for the West
A surge in housing costs has made Missoula, Montana, increasingly unaffordable. But the city is cha…
Eliza Relman
2 mins read
I'm a dad to 6 kids. I allow them to talk openly about sex and drugs, but I still have boundaries.
Adam Feuerstein's kids range from age 15 to 25. He says they can all have open and honest conversat…
Kelly Burch
3 mins read
Parents are spending hundreds to have other people prep and pack their kids for summer camps that cost upward of $15,000
Some families are dropping hundreds of dollars on professional packers to prep their kids for expen…
Erin Snodgrass
2 mins read
Here's why Americans having fewer kids won't doom the economy
The US birth rate just fell to its lowest level in over 40 years, according to provisional CDC data.
Jennifer Sor
7 mins read
Why have one baby when you can have 2? People are paying $500,000 to hire 2 surrogates at once and have 'twiblings'
Surrogacy agencies said some intended parents are spending half a million dollars on concurrent sur…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Millennials are turning 40 — and it's freaking them out
Millennials, a generation defined by their youth, are no longer young. That's causing many of them …