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Raising Parents with Emily Oster
Emily Oster tackles parenting questions with data, not trends. Questions like: Are we too soft on kids these days? Why are so many teen girls unhappy and anxious, and how can we make them happy again? Why are boys being left behind? Should you even have kids at all? And above all, How do we raise good people in this strange, new world?
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Ep 8: Should You Have Kids?
For most of human history, having kids wasn’t much of a choice.
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Ep 7: How Important is Marriage?
The share of children in America growing up in single-parent families has tripled since 1950—from 10 percent to 30 percent.
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Ep 6: Are Smartphones Stealing Childhood?
In today’s world, many parents feel like we need our kids to have phones.
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Ep 5: Are Boys Being Left Behind?
Across the board in most advanced countries, girls and women are outpacing boys and men.
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Ep 4: Are We Overmedicating Kids?
Kids and teens today are more diagnosed than ever, across the board, whether it’s a disorder like ADHD or a mental health condition like…
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Ep 3: Are We Feeding Kids the Wrong Foods?
In January 2023, the American Academy of Pediatrics surprised doctors and parents by changing its guidelines on treating childhood obesity to include…
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Ep 2: Have We Forgotten How to Discipline?
There are a lot of different approaches to discipline, and they’ve changed wildly in America over the decades.
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Ep 1: Are We Over-Parenting Our Kids?
When Emily was a kid in the 1980s in New Haven, Connecticut, she grew up on a block with a lot of other children.
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