Climate action plans: cities must do more to protect children from the impacts of climate change

From Broken Aid to Bold Partnership: Reimagining Foreign Assistance for a World on Fire

The world has changed, and aid must change too. If it doesn’t, it risks becoming irrelevant. The stakes are high as we enter an era where the very idea of mutual responsibility is under strain, even as the need for it becomes more urgent by the day.

A Fair Tax Code for Families: Improving the Child Tax Credit

In this explainer, we cover efforts to change the Child Tax Credit, which families can use to offset a range of costs associated with raising children.

A Fair Tax Code for Families: Reforming the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit

In this explainer, we cover efforts to change the Child and Dependent Care Tax credit, which families can use to offset their expenses for child care.

Young Americans are lost. Here’s how to help them find their way

EducationNC

Beyond False Binaries in Care

New perspectives on the most fundamental of human activities

Rethinking Family Tax Policy: A Bipartisan Dialogue

Child and family policy experts, advocates, and philanthropic leaders came together to envision a fairer tax code for families. Here are the key takeaways from the discussion.

Reclaiming the Kitchen Table: Why Democrats Need a Family Policy for America’s New Political Landscape

The next two years in the political wilderness give Democrats a chance to regroup. They must go beyond individualistic or technocratic responses and instead craft a bold family policy that ensures stability and prepares America for future challenges.

Colombia’s Soul: A Vision of Solidarity and Care

The solutions we need are already being imagined; we just need the openness, creativity, and bravery to embrace them.

On Addiction, Connection, and Finding Meaning in Spiritual Opposites

Addiction is often rooted in disconnection. Recovery is not just about sobriety but about reclaiming agency, meaning, and belonging in a world where opposing forces shape our search for wholeness.

Aux Etats-Unis, les parents écrasés par le coût de la garded’enfant

Le Monde

In 2025, America Needs a New Vision for Politics

Newsweek

How the 2024 Election Jolted the Politics of Family

The Future of Care

Ian Marcus Corbin: The Science and Philosophy of Community

Paternal, Stories from the Brotherhood of Fatherhood

Are you listening? Constant use of Bluetooth earbuds may be driving social isolation, says research

The Washington Times

Belonging and Shared Agency: What Religion Still Offers Society

Fixing Childcare in America

Harvard EdCast

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