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How can white people join the anti-racist discussion?

That's the question I tackled today on Anti-Racist Parent in response to this letter from a white parent of white children.

Who's your daddy? Answer's at the drugstore

After two decades, Sean Reid of Surrey, British Columbia, discovered that he had a son. Fred Turley of Des Plaines, Ill., learned he didn’t have a daughter. And Wendy Lieb of Lewis Center, Ohio, made certain she wasn’t going to be a grandmother quite yet.

So Mom really did like you best

When kids perceive unequal treatment and don't understand it, families run into trouble, says researcher Laurie Kramer, a professor of applied family studies at the University of Illinois who worked with two other researchers from the University of Missouri.

Years of Strife and Lost Hope Scar Young Palestinians

Their worried parents call them the lost generation of Palestine: its most radical, most accepting of violence and most despairing. They are the children of the second intifada that began in 2000, growing up in a territory riven by infighting, seared by violence, occupied by Israel, largely cut off from the world and segmented by barriers and checkpoints.

Leave No Child Inside

The movement to reconnect children to the natural world has arisen spontaneously, ignoring the usual political and economic dividing lines in society.

Safe-Haven Laws Fail to End Discarding of Babies

Their lives ended almost as soon as they began. And every time their tiny bodies were found, in Dumpsters, garbage cans or, in the case of a newborn girl in Queens last fall, on the conveyor belt of a recycling plant, dismay and bewilderment followed.

New York Tries to Think Outside the Sandbox

New York City, with its rich history of public playgrounds, is on the verge of a bold experiment in the way children play, one that could accelerate the trend away from monkey bars, swings and seesaws used by generations of city children.

Child care so costly immigrants sending babies back to China

Sunny Wu had just immigrated to Canada from China when she discovered she was pregnant. Overjoyed, Ms. Wu prepared for her baby's arrival, never imagining that within a year, she would have to endure the agony and loneliness of being separated from her daughter.

Parenting as Therapy for Child’s Mental Disorders

But like most other parents, the couple preferred to avoid drug treatment, if possible. Instead, with the guidance of psychologists at the University of Buffalo, they altered the way they interacted with Peter and his younger brother, Scott. And over the course of a difficult year, they brought about a transformation in their son.

No school, but snow day still provides education

The snowstorm that paralyzed motorists all over the Puget Sound area this week also wreaked havoc on thousands of working parents and their children. Those who couldn't stay home have been scurrying to arrange emergency child care, foisting kids on the in-laws, hiring baby-sitters at a premium or showing up for work with the little ones in tow.