Families and Family Life

November 12, 2024

Longing for Grandchildren When Your Child Doesn’t Want Kids

A growing number of Americans are choosing not to have children. Their parents are grappling with what that means for them. Lydia Birk, 56, has held […]
September 7, 2024

The Great American Family Car Ride

Three bridges, one toll. In the early 1980s, whenever we piled into the family sedan, my siblings and I would jostle one another for space in […]
August 24, 2024

A Community of Brooklyn Moms Make Time to Skateboard After Drop-off

On a chilly, windy morning in March, Nagisa Landfield’s and Leila Noelliste’s skateboard wheels boomed in unison with the clanking of construction work and semi trucks […]
May 15, 2024

‘Modern Love Podcast’: Liza Colón-Zayas, of ‘The Bear,’ on Loving Someone Who’s in the Fight of Their Life

Christina Djossa, Reva Goldberg, Emily Lang, Davis Land and Jen Poyant and Dan Powell, Marion Lozano, Pat McCusker, Chelsea Daniel, Rowan Niemisto and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon […]
April 20, 2024

Distracted at the Tea Ceremony

It’s not easy to find serenity when memories come flooding in. My fiancée, Meredith, and I were sitting crossed-legged on cushions around a low wooden table […]
April 15, 2024

‘Eldest Daughter Syndrome’ and Sibling Birth Order: Does it Matter?

“Eldest daughter syndrome” assumes that birth order shapes who we are and how we interact. Does it? In a TikTok video that has been watched more […]
December 11, 2023

David Yoon on How He Learned to Spend Money on Love

This essay is part of a Modern Love project on the intersection of money and relationships. I didn’t grow up in a romantic household. My parents […]
December 4, 2023

In Peru, a Family’s Vocation in Silver

All seven of Gregorio Cachi’s daughters followed him into making jewelry. Now many of their children are involved, too. The jewelry that Hilda and Sonia Cachi […]
November 16, 2023

A New Getty Family Business

Once, more than a decade ago, Rosetta Getty was asked by her daughter’s elementary schoolteacher, “Are we going to discuss the elephant in the room?” Ms. […]
November 16, 2023

A New Getty Family Business

Once, more than a decade ago, Rosetta Getty was asked by her daughter’s elementary schoolteacher, “Are we going to discuss the elephant in the room?” Ms. […]