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Should You Even Have Kids?
And what happens if we don’t? Plus: Parenting guru (and host of our hit podcast) Emily Oster answers your most burning questions.
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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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Diets Are Bad. Ignoring Childhood Obesity Is Even Worse.
Activists tell parents not to ‘fat shame’ an overweight child or make them go on a diet. But parents who refuse to tackle the issue are putting their…
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The Most Important Job in the World
Introducing Raising Parents with Emily Oster—a new podcast with the brilliant economist and parenting guru.
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