Stephanie H. Murray

Bristol

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Contributing writer @theatlantic. Also in @nytimes @time @guardian @washingtonpost + more. Send me tips/hire me: [email protected]

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Ennen kuka tahansa aikuinen saattoi nuhdella ketä tahansa lasta – Pitäisikö koko kylän taas kasvattaa? | The Atlantic

1 week ago | apu.fi | Stephanie H. Murray

The Atlanticin alkuperäisen, englanninkielisen jutun voit lukea tästä linkistä. perheemme sulloutui nopeasti täyttyvään metrovaunuun pari vuotta sitten Prahan-matkallamme. Päädyin istumaan kuusivuotiaan tyttäreni viereen. Nelivuotias pikkusisko istui meitä vastapäätä omalla paikallaan. Jossain vaiheessa nuorempi nosti polvensa rintaansa vasten ja laski jalkansa penkille. Hänen vieressään istui nainen, joka näytti noin seitsemänkymmenvuotiaalta.
Go Ahead, Scold My Kid

1 month ago | theatlantic.com | Stephanie H. Murray

On a trip to Prague a couple of years ago, my family piled into a rapidly filling metro car, and I wound up sitting next to my 6-year-old daughter, while her 4-year-old sister sat directly across from us, on her own. At one point, my youngest pulled a knee up to her chest and rested her foot on the seat. Almost immediately, a woman sitting next to her, who looked to be about 70, reached out and gently touched my daughter’s foot, signaling her to put it down.
The New ‘Marrying Down’

2 months ago | theatlantic.com | Stephanie H. Murray

Once upon a time, it was fairly common for highly educated men in the United States to marry less-educated women. But beginning in the mid-20th century, as more women started to attend college, marriages seemed to move in a more egalitarian direction, at least in one respect: A greater number of men and women started partnering up with their educational equals. That trend, however, appears to have stalled and even reversed in recent years.
The New Marriage of Unequals

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Stephanie H. Murray

Once upon a time, it was fairly common for highly educated men in the United States to marry less-educated women. But beginning in the mid-20th century, as more women started to attend college, marriages seemed to move in a more egalitarian direction, at least in one respect: A greater number of men and women started partnering up with their educational equals. That trend, however, appears to have stalled and even reversed in recent years.
Kids Aren’t Commodities

Jan 31, 2025 | theatlantic.com | Stephanie H. Murray

About 13 years ago, well before I became a parent, I had a conversation with my aunt. She was the kind of aunt a young person could talk to: hilariously frank, slow to judge, and not easily scandalized. We were seated in her rumpus room, me on the couch and her on the floor, as one of her four children (she now has five) toddled back and forth. The topic turned to motherhood. “I’m not sure I like kids,” I said. If she was offended, she didn’t show it. In fact, she seemed to get what I was saying.
Village Parenting and Intensive Parenting Don’t Mix

Jan 1, 2025 | theatlantic.com | Stephanie H. Murray

If you were to ask me about the lowest point of my life as a parent, I could pinpoint it almost to the day. It was in early March 2021. The United Kingdom was a couple of months into its third and longest COVID lockdown. I had been living in the country for more than a year, but having arrived just a few months before the outbreak, I still felt like a stranger in town. My kids were 2 and 3 years old, and my youngest was going through a screaming phase.
An Ode to Big Families

Dec 17, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Stephanie H. Murray

In the video, my siblings and I stand with our mother on the large porch of a house somewhere in Virginia, before a small crowd gathered across the street. We’re dressed plainly, except for my mother, who wears a festive sweater and headband. And we are singing—“The 12 Days of Christmas,” “Carol of the Bells,” my grandpa’s arrangement of “Hey Ho, Anybody Home” with “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.” For most of the performance, my mother conducts us from a music stand, pitch pipe in hand.
Cultural Shifts Alone Won’t Persuade People to Have Kids

Sep 26, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Stephanie H. Murray

Listen1.0x0:0011:22Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. When the U.S. fertility rate began falling, toward the end of the 2000s, it at first seemed a predictable response to the hardships of the Great Recession. But as the economy has recovered, fertility has only continued dropping, reaching yet another historic low last year—and raising doubts among some commentators about whether financial concerns are the true cause.
You Can’t Separate Fertility Choices From Economics

Sep 26, 2024 | msn.com | Stephanie H. Murray

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