Parents in the Crossfire: Care in a Polarized Culture

In a world of constant flux, we must embrace the idea that there is no “one way” to be a parent.

Williams, Waters: We must address the epidemic of loneliness

The Detroit News

Parenting in the Age of Climate Crisis: Why the Surgeon General’s Advisory Misses a Crucial Dimension

Child Care Policy Shouldn’t Forget Stay-at-Home Parents

Newsweek

Beyond Playgrounds: Building Climate Resilient, Child- and Family-Centered Cities

Why Is the Loneliness Epidemic So Hard to Cure?

The New York Times Magazine

Guess What Private Equity is Doing to Childcare

Culture Study

The Problem of Summer Childcare

The Brian Lehrer Show

Loneliness in America

This May, we funded a national survey on loneliness in America – the first of its kind – which Harvard’s Making Caring Common, designed and launched using YouGov’s panel of adult Americans

How to Solve the Summer-Child-Care Nightmare

The Atlantic

Child care is a ‘textbook example of a broken market.’ Where do Harris, Trump go from here?

Los Angeles Times

A polarized family policy is the last thing America needs

The Hill

Dr. Ian Marcus Corbin: Restoring the Common Good

Common Good Podcast

What’s Behind America’s Loneliness Crisis?

Commonweal Magazine

Private equity is embracing child care as investors look for profit. Here are the big players in Canada.

Toronto Star

The Case for Child- and Family-Smart Climate Finance

Adventures in Italy with a Newborn

Generation Heat

Capita’s Director, Climate Ankita Chachra argues that children and pregnant women must be integral to climate adaptation solutions, particularly when it comes to addressing the impacts of heat.

Massachusetts Senate Sets New Guardrails Against Child Care Profiteering: What You Need to Know

The key aspects of this bill and what it means for child care providers, families, and for-profit chains alike

America’s Loneliness Epidemic Hits Kids Hardest

Newsweek

Elliot Haspel on the U.S. Early Years Climate Action Plan

News 3 Las Vegas

Visions of flourishing in an age of unraveling

Reflections from the Capita team and Capita Board members as we come to the end of 2023

The U.S. Early Years Climate Action Plan: Congressional Letter

Last week, the U.S. Early Years Climate Action Task Force co-Chairs, Diana Rauner and Antwanye Ford, sent a letter to Congress. It outlined the threats climate change poses to young children’s health, the health and well-being of those who care for them, and the continued functionality of the nation’s pediatric & maternal health care and early care & education systems.

Chris Murphy Wants to Make America a Little Less Lonely

Vanity Fair

Where Are Private Equity-Backed Child Care Programs Located?

Exactly where you think they would be

What the Lost Children Knew: A Story from Colombia’s Amazon Rainforest

Nonprofit Quarterly

Chasing Sunshine, Beating Storms: Designing Public Spaces for Children and Families