parenting

• 
• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/15/2022
  

  Why Does US Policy Make Things Hard on Parents?

  For decades, the political idea that social services aimed at supporting parents and children constitute a governmental intrusion on the family has been used to thwart the kinds of supports that parents and children in the rest of the industrial world enjoy. 

• 
• 1/26/20
  

  Modeling Grief: the Death of Children in Historical Perspective

  by Maria E. Doerfler

  As students of the history of emotions have argued, even the deepest and most primal feelings require models for experiencing one's own suffering and for responding appropriately to others’. The relative lack of such models in contemporary American society contrasts sharply with other eras' approach to voicing bereavement.