The Last Children of Down Syndrome
Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.
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Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.
Sarah Zhang The Atlantic Nov 2020 35min Permalink
Each year, California’s child protective services agencies remove thousands of kids from their homes. The story of how some parents decided to fight back.
Swept out to sea by a riptide, a father and his 12-year-old autistic son struggle to stay alive. As night falls, the dad comes to a devastating realization: If they remain together, they’ll drown together.
Justin Heckert Men's Journal Nov 2009 25min Permalink
Trying to parent my Black teenagers through protest and pandemic.
Carvell Wallace New York Times Magazine Jun 2020 30min Permalink
An antique high chair; the complexities of parenting and growing.
Chelsea Sutton Pithead Chapel May 2020 Permalink
On parenting during a pandemic.
Kevin Koczwara Esquire Apr 2020 15min Permalink
A week in the life of a family weathering the coronavirus.
Reyhan Harmanci The Cut Apr 2020 10min Permalink
A girl spends time with her mentally unstable mother.
Cathy Mellett Atlas & Alice Sep 2019 10min Permalink
When he was 2, Strider was severely beaten by his mother’s boyfriend. Today, at 6, Strider lives with his grandparents in rural Maine, in and out of poverty, trying to make it.
Sarah Schweitzer Boston Globe Nov 2015 35min Permalink
The writer on his father’s religious devotion to personal style. Among the maxims: “the turtleneck is the most flattering thing a man can wear”; “there is nothing like a fresh burn”; and “always wear white to the face.”
The answer to the disparity in death rates has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America.
Linda Villarosa New York Times Magazine Apr 2018 40min Permalink
After two months in the hospital, a mother finally got to take her premature baby home. Then she spent five years trying to convince him to eat.
Tahmima Anam The Guardian Apr 2019 35min Permalink
Magic powers meet everyday problems.
Josh Denslow The Offing Apr 2019 20min Permalink
“Neither of my parents was exactly who I thought they were.”
Elizabeth Wurtzel The Cut Dec 2018 20min Permalink
On being the parent of a micro preemie.
A daughter is born, four months too soon.
Juniper’s first few weeks.
Miracles, in little pieces.
Kelley Benham The Tampa Bay Times Dec 2012 1h20min Permalink
A father's death, mysterious texts, and bodily/environmental changes.
Blake Butler The Collagist Dec 2018 15min Permalink
While visiting a new church, a teenager questions her faith.
Virgie Townsend Pithead Chapel Dec 2018 10min Permalink
What if your son’s school thinks he might be a potential school shooter?
Bethany Barnes The Oregonian Jun 2018 15min Permalink
Baseball and complicated father/son relationships.
Patrick Walczy Hobart Apr 2018 Permalink
Forgetting a child in the backseat of a car is a horrifying mistake. But is it a crime?
Gene Weingarten Washington Post Mar 2009 35min Permalink
A late night host finds a new voice.
Michael Paterniti GQ Jan 2018 20min Permalink
Leïla Slimani’s best-seller explores the dark relationship of a mother and her babysitter.
Lauren Collins New Yorker Dec 2017 30min Permalink
“To fight for my son, I have to argue that he should never have been born.”
A journey to Disney World with kids and weed.
John Jeremiah Sullivan New York Times Magazine Jun 2011 25min Permalink
New love, lost love, and origins.
Ilene Raymond Rush Poydras Review Oct 2017 10min Permalink