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War over the family

Alberto Bernabe (John Marshall): Do Parents Have a Duty to Supervise Their Children’s Use of the Internet? Anca Gheaus (Sheffield): Unfinished Adults and Defective Children: On the Nature and Value of Childhood. Toby Rollo (UBC): The Nightmare of Childhood, Part I: Progress, Modernity and Misopedy and Part II: Misopedy as Structure and Process. Linda C. McClain (BU): Is There a Way Forward in the “War Over the Family”? Deborah Dinner (WUSTL): The Divorce Bargain: The Fathers' Rights Movement and Family Inequalities. Livia Gershon on a threat to “traditional marriage” in the 1920s. What Ruth Bader Ginsburg taught me about being a stay-at-home dad: Ryan Park puts his former boss’s ideals into practice. The grandparent deficit: Susanna Schrobsdorff on how fertility isn’t the only biological clock. Matthew Yglesias on 7 things becoming a parent taught him he was right about all along. Sarah Kollmorgen on how you weren’t born a narcissist — your parents made you one. Jennifer Senior on how we live in an age of irrational parenting. Jennifer Breheny Wallace on why children need chores: Doing household chores has many benefits — academically, emotionally and even professionally. Clemens Wergin on the case for free-range parenting. Tracy Moore on godless parents are doing a better job. Is it “selfish, shallow, and self-absorbed” not to have kids? Meghan Daum on her new book about childlessness.