R.O. Kwon, author of the novel “Exhibit,” joins host Krys Boyd to discuss her interviews with parents who are made to feel like monsters because they wish their lives had taken different paths, how love for offspring doesn’t play into the conversation, and her own certainty that she never wants to be a mother.
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Jennifer Senior, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the story of her aunt Adele, who was sent away at age 6 because of intellectual disabilities.
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Jennifer Senior, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the story of her aunt Adele, who was sent away at age 6 because of intellectual disabilities.
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April Nowell, a Paleolithic archaeologist, joins us to discuss the efforts to uncover the mysteries of childhood in the Ice Age.
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Peggy O’Donnell Heffington joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the many reasons women live childless.
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Adam Benforado joins us to discuss why cracks in public education and juvenile justice have left children vulnerable, and why making kids a policy priority bodes well for all our futures.
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Peggy O’Donnell Heffington joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the many reasons women live childless.
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Vox reporter Rachel Cohen joins us to discuss the crisis working parents face as they try to bridge the gap between the end of the school day and the end of the workday.
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Judith Warner explains the complex issue of child and adolescent mental health, and why the problem has been mounting for years before the pandemic.
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Heather Lanier joins us to discuss the personal struggles she faces parenting her daughter, a child with a very rare genetic disorder, while navigating a world that expects parents to raise high-achieving children.
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Stephen G. Bloom joins us to discuss an exercise that separated children by eye color to mimic racism and why we might now question the results
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Gabrielle Glaser joins us to tell the story of how a system of closed adoptions across the nation operated on shifty moral ground and separated mother from child in the name of a wholesome environment.
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