Child care costs by state, how the healthcare system lets down moms with postpartum depression, and the fight over teaching race and gender at college. Plus, at Corporette, readers shared their book recs.

L.A.. schools’ new screen-time limits, elementary-age students taking GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, and kidmaxxing (ew) among the super-wealthy.

The passing of Scary Mommy founder Jill Smokler, having kids after 40, and tips for your first trip with a baby. Plus, on Corporette, we talked about emergency funds.

The changes at the Department of Education; a report on teens, tweens, and AI; and moms who smoke pot. Plus, on Corporette, we shared tips on stopping impulse shopping online.

Outsourcing parenting tasks to ChatGPT, signs of anxious attachment in kids, and the “luxury arms race” of surrogacy. Plus, on Corporette, we shared lightweight suiting for hot weather.