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In Post-Roe World, These Conservatives Embrace New Benefits for Parents

Some conservative thinkers are pushing Republicans to move on from Reagan-era family policy and send cash to families. A few lawmakers are listening.

โ€œThe work of the family is real work,โ€ said Erika Bachiochi, a legal scholar who calls herself a pro-life feminist and has written influential essays and books.

Traumatised teens can turn their lives around โ€“ but they need help | Letters

Readers respond to Daniel Dylan Wrayโ€™s article about escaping the shadow of his abusive father

I was moved by Daniel Dylan Wrayโ€™s account of lone parenthood, domestic abuse and seeing his father for the first time across a courtroom (A moment that changed me, 1 February). I have a not dissimilar story, although I lived with my father, but I remember periods of parental separation as a welcome relief. In a similar Damascene moment, I went from angry teen to university, and, as a professor, Iโ€™m still there.

University was a door into another world. I fear that similar young people will not have a chance to experience those moments of relief, and support from public services, that I, and presumably Wray, enjoyed. The relentless attacks on financial and other support to lone parents, and the ensuing stigma, will make life almost impossible for families in similar situations today, as I outlined in the Guardian last year (Tories have shamed single parents and heaped financial pressure on them, 5 July 2022).
Prof Morag Treanor
Edinburgh

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How Parenting Today Is Different, and Harder

Parents feel intense pressure to be more hands-on, and a new survey shows this often means more emotional engagement.

Nearly half of U.S. parents surveyed by Pew Research Center said that they were raising their children differently from how they had been raised.
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