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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How to make sure your only child still feels like a kid
Jancee Dunn discusses the ways her own child has siphoned off focus from her husband, and how culturally we have become accustomed to this interference.
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Your Developmentally Delayed Child Has Finished School — Now What?
Cammie McGovern joins us to discuss “the disability cliff” – when education ends and the hard realities of limited jobs and housing set in – and about her own experience raising a son who has autism.
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When Your Parent Is Mentally Ill
Clinical psychologist Vinita Mehta joins us to talk about how nearly one in four children worldwide have a parent with mental illness and how that can affect both child development and the parent-child relationship into adulthood.
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Is it Time to Redefine Family?
David Brooks, The New York Times columnist, joins us to talk about why depending on a small, concentrated support network is not only ahistorical but also reserved for the “financially fortunate.”
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Marcia Gay Harden Remembers What Her Mom No Longer Can
Oscar-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden tells the story of her mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s disease.
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A Talk With Paul Theroux About ‘Mother Land’
Paul Theroux joins us to talk about his latest work of fiction, which centers on a brood of siblings doing their best to free themselves from the grip of an overbearing mother.
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Why Childcare Should Be Federally Subsidized
Grover Whitehurst joins us to talk about the idea of federally subsidized childcare.
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Choosing To Be Child-Free
Whether or not to have children is a complicated, personal choice. Still, many who decide to forgo baby bottles and cradles in favor of pantsuits and suitcases face judgment from peers. This hour, we’ll talk about with Meghan Daum, the editor of “Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids.”
Career, pantsuit, suitcase,
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