Family - Quillette (Page 2)

The End of the World as We Know It?

The scholars at Our World in Data add that this also holds for other natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcano activity, wildfire, and landslides.

Glenn T. Stanton

11 Dec 2020 · 15 min read

My White Privilege Didn’t Save Me. But God Did

Because of my experiences, and the newly fashionable denial of reality being promoted by progressives, I find myself sitting with the politically homeless.

Edie Wyatt

7 Dec 2020 · 12 min read

Forget What Gender Activists Tell You. Here’s What Medical Transition Looks Like

Medical transition, such as the kind I went through, can enhance an illusion that helps some gender dysphoric individuals navigate the world with more comfort.

Scott Newgent

6 Oct 2020 · 8 min read

Neglecting At-Risk Children in the Name of Cultural Sensitivity

She has more than 20 years of experience working with families and children in true crisis, including with issues ranging from rape, to drug addiction, to terminal illness

Hal Niedzviecki

26 Aug 2020 · 8 min read

Is Foster Care Racist?

The complaints of structural racism and a desire to abolish foster care will sound familiar to anyone who has been listening to the recent debate about policing.

Naomi Schaefer Riley

26 Jun 2020 · 8 min read

Long-Distance Love during Lockdown

Love, it turns out, remains an enduring mystery.

Marilyn Simon

20 Apr 2020 · 7 min read

The Decline of the Great American Family Saga

In February, the Atlantic published a much discussed essay by David Brooks entitled “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake.” Brooks noted that the conditions that once made nuclear families viable—strong unions, plenty of jobs that paid living wages, inexpensive housing and transportation and education costs, stay-at-home mothers, high numbers

Kevin Mims

28 Feb 2020 · 13 min read

Scandinavia: Can The New "Parental Team" Replace Marriage?

A 2012 statistical report profiled a cohort of 34,000 Swedish heterosexual couples who had their first baby in 2000, and followed their progress longitudinally until 2010.

Mikael Jalving

2 Jan 2020 · 8 min read

Polyamory Is Growing—And We Need To Get Serious About It

More people than ever are pursuing polyamorous, open, or swinging relationships.

Geoffrey Miller

29 Oct 2019 · 13 min read

William Peter Blatty's Counter-Countercultural Parable

In her new book Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics (excerpted in Quillette on August 27), essayist and cultural critic Mary Eberstadt documents just how damaging the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and its normalization of divorce in particular, has been to America’s children. She mentions

Kevin Mims

13 Sep 2019 · 13 min read

The Feminist Case for Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend

A UBI system would do far more than any other policy proposed by the current set of Democratic candidates to reduce the vulnerability of such women.

Louise Perry

1 Sep 2019 · 9 min read

'The Great Scattering': How Identity Panic Took Root in the Void Once Occupied by Family Life

The panic over identity, in short, is being driven by the fact that the human animal has been selected for familial forms of socialization that for many people no longer exist.

Mary Eberstadt

27 Aug 2019 · 10 min read

The New Inequality: The Decline of the Working Class Family

The Left often shies away from making a strong case for family values, despite the fact that family stability may be immensely beneficial for the working class and for black Americans who have high rates of single-mother families.

Maria Kouloglou

13 Jun 2019 · 6 min read

The Value of Exercising Civility—in Both Oikos and Polis

A willingness to listen requires us to first recognize that our shared humanity means that we have more in common than that which divides us.

Alexandra Hudson

26 Feb 2019 · 8 min read