Rational Actors
In the United States, women face the prospect of becoming mothers without necessary social protections. Many decide it’s not worth the risk.
19687 Articles by: Alex Press
It’s Okay to Have Children
Instead of challenging the pressures that capitalism puts on child-rearing, liberals surrender to it.
Jacobin Is for the Children
Help keep Jacobin alive for generations to come.
The Newsies Were Real
Picket lines once made the best playgrounds around.
Class Clowns
Meet the Silicon Valley “disruptors” who want to teach your kids.
The Criminalization of Youth
If we want to offer children a better future, we need to get the criminal justice system out of their lives.
Girls to the Rescue
Workers need independent and strong unions, not corporate-sponsored NGOs, to fight their bosses and support their families.
The Spoils of War
Participation trophies are actually good — give one to every child.
The Beyoncé Treatment
No mother should be forced to give birth in conditions Beyoncé wouldn’t accept for herself.
Klass and Kids’ Films
Disney-Pixar vs. Laika
Japan’s “Womenomics”
Shinzo Abe pledged to create a Japan in which “all women can shine.” But behind the glitter is a program that has little to offer working-class women.
Every Child Needs the Good Enough State
The richness of childhood needs to be embraced as a social good.
The World’s Toughest Job
“The perfect mother” is a cudgel to cut down the flesh-and-blood variety.
We Read a Bunch of Parenting Books
Now let us raise your children.
How Children Are Made
A Jacobin glossary.
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Ratified November 20, 1989
Don’t Leave the Kids Alone
Higher social spending leads to better lives for children. The United States has a long way to go.
God Bless the Child
The correlation between climbing homicide rates and child migration is too obvious to deny.
Defunding the Future
About one fifth of American children live in poverty. Their government’s negligence is to blame.
Reformism Yesterday and Social Democracy Today
We shouldn’t try to resurrect the social-democratic politics of the past. What we need is a socialist movement that pairs radical demands with mass, militant action.