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  • No, Ladies, We Cannot Have It All

    No, Ladies, We Cannot Have It All4

    The phrase “having it all” came from the title of a 1982 book written by Helen Gurley Brown, then editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine. As Antoinette Lattouf, writing in The Guardian in early 2023, put it, this self-help book for women focused on “money, sex, diet, exercise, and appearance.” Notably, it made no mention of children

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  • Henry Ford’s Pro-Family Initiative That Rocked the World

    Henry Ford’s Pro-Family Initiative That Rocked the World2

    One hundred and ten years ago this week, a Motor City magnate put his money where his mouth was. On 5 January 1914, Ford Motor Company doubled the wages of employees to $5.00 per day, incentivising assembly-line work. It was Henry Ford’s idea. The Detroit Journal’s headline “Henry Ford Gives Ten Million in 1914 Profits to His

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  • The Man Saving Childhood Joy

    The Man Saving Childhood Joy0

    Kids running around, playing games, staying out till the streetlights come on! That was Charles Brewer’s childhood — and dream. To make it happen in modern-day America, the entrepreneur developed Glenwood Park in Atlanta, a neighborhood that hewed to the tenets of “New Urbanism.” That meant it had “town houses, offices, retail, walkable streets, a

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  • ‘To Have and to Hold’: Marrying Young and Making It Last

    ‘To Have and to Hold’: Marrying Young and Making It Last2

    Kate Z. works in childcare and as a part-time barista in my local coffee shop. She’s the oldest of 10 children, with seven brothers and two sisters. Home-educated during elementary school, Kate then entered Padre Pio Academy here in Front Royal, Virginia, a hybrid school which combines homeschooling with three days a week in the

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  • Why Is ‘The New York Times’ Upset by Bluey’s Wholesome Dad?

    Why Is ‘The New York Times’ Upset by Bluey’s Wholesome Dad?5

    Positive paternal portrayals in entertainment media are few and far between these days. Depictions of deadbeat dads are far more commonplace, whether seen in shows like Everybody Loves Raymond, South Park, Family Guy, or most notably, The Simpsons. Even in many cartoons pitched at the youngest of children, fathers are routinely represented as lazy, incompetent

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  • A Co-op by Any Other Name …

    A Co-op by Any Other Name …3

    I was standing at the sink washing dishes and absentmindedly listening to NPR. We were in the pandemic. Most of what I heard on the radio sounded rehearsed. The same words used repeatedly, until suddenly there was something different: “learning pods.” I turned up the radio and leaned in to listen. The radio ladies were

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