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Marking the Beginning of Adulthood

On yesterday’s show, The Takeaway discussed the supposed problems with kids today. But that begged the question: when, exactly, is a kid no longer a kid? When does childhood end and adulthood...

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Valedictorian, Undocumented and College-Bound, Fights To Stay in the U.S.

When she was four years old, Daniela Pelaez emigrated with her parents from Colombia to the United States. They had visas. But when the visas expired, her parents decided to stay in the country and...

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Why Have Children?

In a woman’s life, there are many rites of passage: her first period, her first time falling in love, and her first time being hired for a job. And if she makes it past the ripe old age of 25, she very...

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How Should We Balance Our Work and Personal Lives?

Anne-Marie Slaughter is a busy woman. She's a professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton, a former director of policy planning at the State Department, and a mother of two boys.Last...

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Follow Up Conversation: Balancing Our Work and Personal Lives

Anne-Marie Slaughter of The Atlantic, a professor at Princeton and a former State Department official, sparked a conversation about gender roles and the current state of feminism with her piece, "Why...

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Tracing Michelle Obama's Multiracial Ancestry

Back in August 2008, in a keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, Michelle Obama spoke of embarking on an "improbable journey" for the race for president. New York Times reporter Rachel...

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Vacation: Should We Bring the Kids?

Summer time has arrived and Americans are itching, not only from the mosquito bites but for a vacation. But when it comes to a few days off from the daily grind, not everyone agrees about whether or...

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Teaching Financial Literacy in Schools

The 2008 financial crisis and the great recession exposed Americans' flawed understanding of personal finance. Little has improved in the last four years: Americans owe more than $1 trillion in student...

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Boy Scouts: For Heterosexuals Only

Back in 1910, when the Boy Scouts of America was founded, their stated mission was "to teach patriotism, courage, self-reliance, and kindred values."Those values have been debated over the years. In...

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New Hospital Program Encourages Breast-Feeding by Limiting Access to Baby...

Twenty-seven hospitals in New York City have signed on to participate in the Department of Health’s new initiative Latch on NYC, a program that encourages breastfeeding for new mothers by limiting...

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Why 'Having It All' Is Impossible

'Having it all.' It's the phrase of a generation who fought for equal rights in the workplace. Earning an income, raising a family, and maintaining a social life became the ultimate standard of...

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Having It All Versus Having Happy Kids

Throughout the summer, The Takeaway has covered parenting and the notion of “having it all” from a number of approaches — from women, from men, and from those who think having it all is the wrong thing...

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New Study Suggests Father's Age Related to Autism, Schizophrenia

A new study published in the journal Nature correlates a father’s age with his children’s risk of having autism or schizophrenia. It shouldn’t send older men into a panic, but, as Benedict Careynotes...

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A Family History, On Tape

Historians have made careers out of examining pieces of paper — letters, manuscripts, articles — to decipher just a little bit of history, to learn someone's story. But in an age of smartphones and...

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Who Wants To Live Forever?

In the 1900s the average life expectancy in the western world was 47 years old. Today it's nearly 80 years old, and in the future, we're set to live even longer.David Ewing Duncan is a science...

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How a Liberal Ideal Became a Conservative Cause

Family values is an oft-repeated in phrase in all presidential campaigns, but the definition has definitely changed over the past few decades. President Lyndon Johnson emphasized the importance of the...

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In Defense of a Shorter Maternity Leave

Back in July, Marissa Mayer took the reigns of Yahoo. In the process, she became the youngest CEO of a fortune 500 company. But while her youth made history, it was the fact that she was six months...

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The Global Struggle for Girls' Education

Today is the first-ever U.N. International Day of the Girl, a day dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of educating girls and young women around the world. It's meant to be a day of hope...

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Military Marriages: Does a Higher Set of Standards Apply?

As General David Petraeus’s marital infidelity comes to light and his storied career comes to an end, questions have arisen about his marriage, his life in the military, and whether members of the...

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Ken Burns on the Generation that Survived The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl, created during the so-called Dirty Thirties, is considered one of the worst man-made environmental catastrophes in American history. In his latest film, director Ken Burns tells the...

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