Children

A glimpse into the lives of New York’s caretakers.

A new line of inquiry asks us to imagine them as random individuals who just happen to live in our homes.

Helen Phillips’s new novel takes place in a dystopian world where the environment has been devastated and humans have outsourced their best selves to tireless, empathetic robots.

Kids are mimicking the semi-professionals they see on their phones, imbibing ideas about beauty rooted in deep desires and capitulations.

Pronatalism has much in common with some of Vance’s views: it typically combines concerns about falling birth rates with anti-immigration and anti-feminist ideas.

The Vice-Presidential candidate’s memoir reveals the roots of his ideas about parents, children, and who should run the country.

In “The Morningside,” Téa Obreht depicts humdrum life in a fallen world, as seen through the eyes of a child.

For parents trying to look hip, no effort goes unpunished.

The author discusses “The Buggy,” his story from the latest issue of the magazine.

Amy Chua’s “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” prompted controversy thirteen years ago, but, among the upper middle class, variations on her parenting style have proliferated.

Many left-leaning, middle-class Americans speak of kids as though they are impositions, or means to an end.

It was so reasonable—why couldn’t we want different things? Two could go into the water and one could stay on the shore. But I didn’t want to leave her there.

We know that social media is bad for young people, who need more time—and freedom—offline. But the collective will to fix this problem is hard to find.

More than a thousand children who were injured in the war are now amputees. What do their futures hold?

The artist captures New York’s smallest pedestrians as they make their way through the big city.

Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” explores a vexed archetype.

Philipp Schaeffer’s film is a glimpse at the overlap of play and perception.

A conversation about grocery-store tantrums, the virtues of disappointment, and the gap between good kids and bad behavior.

After the expanded child tax credit expired, America’s child poverty rate doubled. Why was that policy so successful, and what can be done to fill the gap?

In the past few years, we’ve found out how to greatly reduce economic deprivation among the young, and how to greatly increase it.