skynesher/E+/Getty Images When I was growing up, family dinners were extremely important. Every night, my dad got home from work by seven and my mom had a home-cooked meal ready to go. That’s not to say there weren’t nights when, say, a play rehearsal kept me away, or my brothers skipped because they were at...
Gilbert Laurie/Photographer’s Choice RF/Getty Images Since 2020, firearms have been the leading cause of death for children in the United States, surpassing accidents (including car accidents), illness, suffocation, and drowning. And now a new study, published in JAMA Pediatrics sheds light on how to improve that grim statistic. Plainly put: stricter gun laws appear to...
Daniel Lee/Moment/Getty Images When friends ask me what having a baby is like, I’m sure to keep it positive — having kids is one of the best things I’ve ever done, but I’m also blunt — “It’s like getting punched in the face out of an airplane,” I tell them. “And then when you land...
Guido Mieth/DigitalVision/Getty Images Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB), which has narrowly passed in the House and now moves into the Senate, contains a multitude of cuts to social programs that will negatively affect millions of families to the tune of billions of dollars. But one provision, so-called “Trump Accounts” seeks to help families...