Are middle children going extinct?

There are a lot fewer middle children than there were in the olden days (but not fewer than there were 25 years ago).

What if you left your kid alone with YouTube

How fast can I get to Nazi stuff from “Disney kids” using videos from the first 10 recommended? (Spoiler, I couldn't, but still.)

Breaking: In 2017 names, Donald, Alexa, and Mary plummet; Malia booms

Mary is back on the skids; Donald is going down, Alexa is over, and Malia shows that the resilience of humanity is not. Here are the details.

A step toward civilization (and have more children), Shanghai edition

Observations on family and fertility from a visit to China.

Births to 40-year-olds are less common but a greater share than in 1960

Never before have such a high proportion of all births been to women over 40 -- they are now 2.8% of all births in the US. And yet a 40-year-old woman today is one-third less likely to have a baby than she was in 1947. From 1960 to 1980, birth rates to women over 40* fell,…

Civility in the swelter (Hershey Park edition)

In short, it brings out what a lot of different Americans have in common: overpaying for entertainment, overeating greasy food, and alternately yelling at and loving on their children.

That time when your research is used to justify ripping a baby from the arms of its loving adoptive parents

Wilcox and Regnerus should be the first experts lining up defend the well-being of the child, and the civil rights of its parents. In fact, speaking up right now might actually do some good.

NYT magazine infographic: not just dumb and annoying

But if they cared about communicating the data they probably would have used real data in the first place.

Updated age education birth figures

Preparing for today's appearance on the Kojo Nnamdi Show, I updated some old figures.

Color and the making of gender in early childhood

Maybe gender differences in color preference are just an anchor for children's gender identity performance.