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1 month ago | 
stephaniehmurray.substack.com | Stephanie Murray |Jacqueline Nesi
Happy Tuesday!A note before I get into this week’s round-up: I made a correction to last week’s round-up regarding the study suggesting that maybe moms don’t actually want to work from home after all. But rest assured that the takeaway of interest—that moms of young kids want to work from home less than other women—is still accurate!Family Stuff is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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2 months ago | 
bonniekristian.substack.com | Bonnie Kristian |O. Alan Noble |Stephanie Murray |Olga Khazan
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, and here’s this week’s post. I suggested at the end of last week’s post that this week I’d likely write something on the new Trump administration, but, mea culpa, I’m not going to do it.
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Stephanie Murray |Michael Reneau |Hannah Anderson
A little over a year ago, I interviewed a demographer for a piece about the possible causes of fertility decline. (The piece, sadly, was never published.) At some point in our conversation, she stopped me in order to clarify something: The problem with falling fertility, she wanted me to know, is not that people are choosing to have too few kids, but that they are having fewer kids than they’d like.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
517mag.com | Stephanie Murray
From my late teens through my mid-20s, I was an apartment dweller. Between my student housing era and those first years of living alone, moving to a new place was an annual event. I made the most of it, but I looked forward to one day planting roots in my own home. However, a year into homeowner life, I wasn’t feeling as peaceful as I expected. I didn’t know why, but the second anniversary of homeownership had me taking out a home equity loan to renovate my condo.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
stephaniehmurray.substack.com | Stephanie Murray
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
stephaniehmurray.substack.com | Stephanie Murray |Elissa Strauss
Hello Everyone,Okay so, first of all: yes, this newsletter is a day late. I would have given you a heads up about that except that I myself did not realize it was going to be late until 12:20 a.m. yesterday when my jet-lagged daughters were still up and running around. Second of all, a lot of studies were published this week! The original version of this email included like 15, but I managed to cut it down to a more manageable eight. Let’s get into it!Family Stuff is a reader-supported publication.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
stephaniehmurray.substack.com | Stephanie Murray
Hello Everyone,Before I get into the newsletter, I have a request: I’d love to hear any thoughts readers have about the length or format of the newsletter thus far. Is it too long? Does it cover too many studies? Are the descriptions too wordy? I aim to please and am open to feedback. (Also, I am pretty sure that while I was up late last night writing this newsletter, I felt the baby kick for the first time—I assume because he or she gets really amped about family policy like I do.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
517mag.com | Stephanie Murray
A few years ago, my son brought home a gift he purchased from his elementary school’s holiday market. I had known he was going and braced myself for a pipe-cleaner-and-glitter contraption held together with an abundance of Elmer’s glue and hope. I was not prepared to be so wowed by his purchase that, years later, I look forward to holiday decorating just to hang it up. This present opened my eyes to a world of similar kinds of crafts that I am itching to make.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
stephaniehmurray.substack.com | Stephanie Murray
Hello Everyone,Welcome to my first round-up! After I published my launch post, I started worrying that perhaps there would be no interesting research to cover this week, which would be extremely awkward! But if there is one thing I’ve learned over the past few years, it is that there is literally always interesting research being published. This week was no different.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
open.substack.com | Stephanie Murray
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