Sonya Michel is a professor emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park and author of Children’s Interests/Mothers’ Rights: The Shaping of America’s Child Care Policy (Yale University Press, 1999).
Netflix’s hit show Unorthodox is just the latest entertainment about young people fleeing orthodox Jewish communities. It’s worth asking why these narratives are resonating now.
Will the coronavirus usher in lasting changes to our social safety net and welfare policies? Absent an active political effort, history suggests otherwise.
Published: Apr 05, 2020
Julius Gari Melchers, “Mother and Child” via Art Institute of Chicago
From Roma to Mary Poppins Returns, fictional portraits of nannies are more popular than ever. Yet the reality of their lives—and the dysfunction of our public policy on care work—is too often obscured.
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