Paid family leave is linked to better health outcomes for mom and baby, better relationships between parents and their children, and more job and financial security. Even still, an overwhelming majority of Americans support paid family leave than ever before – which begs us to ask the question: Why isn’t paid family leave federal policy yet? Paid Parental Leave Is Nearly Universally Supported According to The Conversation, a poll of 21,000 people conducted by YouGov between March 25 and April 1, 2021, shows that 82% of Americans believe employees should be able to take a paid maternity leave....

After Alex Trebek tragically passed away earlier this week after a lengthy battle with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer, tributes to his life, his career, and his love of knowledge have poured in around the world from fans, friends, family, and other celebrities alike. On this list of well-wishers to the survivors of Trebek is LeVar Burton, the overall legend of Reading Rainbow and Star Trek fame (as well as a few of the best episodes of Community)....

During an Axios event on May 20, Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease specialist in the US, and Pfizer chairman & CEO Albert Bourla spoke about the vaccination program and how they see the pandemic unfolding in the near future. Both agreed that booster shots will be necessary for long-term protection against COVID-19. “I think we will almost certainly require a booster sometime within a year or so after getting the primary [shot] because the durability of protection against coronaviruses is generally not lifelong,” Fauci told Axios’ Mike Allen at the event....

So, What Exactly Is A Prenup? The first step in understanding the prenup’s surprising rebound is understanding what it is the first place. The reason prenup feels like a vague term is because it kind of is. Broadly, a prenuptial agreement is simply any contract that people agree to before they get married, but which only goes into effect the moment they exchange vows. However, practically, the history of the prenup has narrowed its function down to one area of marriage that we generally don’t like to think about when we’re trying to think about love and commitment: money....

She sees this a lot. More than you’d think given her line of work. The good news from the tough world of private investigation is that couples often survive bad patches in their relationships — even really, really bad patches. Ribacoff thinks this is because the people she meets confront the truth, which she delivers in the form of polygraph results, pictures, videos, and thorough reports. As if to drive this home, Ribacoff says she approaches her work like a family business....

Before we get started, a few ground rules: Sound good? Great, well grab your tissues and let’s get into it. 10. Coral (Finding Nemo) Poor Coral. She is about to become a mom with her wonderful husband Marlin when suddenly a barracuda appears, with a menacing look of hunger on its face. Marlin tries to convince Coral to head inside but instead, she makes a dash to protect the children and ends up getting eaten, leaving Marlin to raise Nemo all by himself....

“The repairman said it would cost more to fix the dishwasher than to buy a new one,” I explained. “It’s gone. I’m so sorry for our loss.” “Well, shit,” she replied. We slogged through a brief period of mourning in which we continued to fill the corpse of the dishwasher with rinsed, yet dirty, dishes. The act was part ritual, part habit, and part necessity. The problem was that we didn’t have the time or money to order a new dishwasher....

“#MeToo and the Kavanaugh allegations have made us all aware of sexual pressuring, consent, and how things can go wrong,” says Jill Whitney, a licensed marriage and family therapist and author of the blog Keep The Talk Going. “None of us want our child to be the victim of a sexual assault, nor to commit an assault because they’re unclear about proper consent.” Of course, this is tricky territory to navigate....

But as a parent who is too busy to hit the gym, but not so far gone that I just give in to a life of dad bod, I want to do something. So for cardio, I run home from work, one to three days a week. For stretching, I negotiated with my wife to do yoga once a week, at 7AM (I’ve been once so far in 2020). And for strength, I occasionally do push-ups and air squats....

The doll comes with safety goggles, a humanoid robot, and a laptop. She wears a circuitry-designed T-shirt and a denim jacket. Kids can play with the doll-like any other Barbie, but they can also use a Barbie-fied version of the Tynker kids coding platform to learn basic programming concepts with a drag-and-drop interface. The new doll comes as part of a pledge made by Mattel SVP and General Manager Lisa McKnight to “launch at least TEN role model dolls each year featuring under-represented careers, real life Sheroes from around the world, and important women in history....

Byrne, who has sons Rafa, 3, and Rocco, 5, with longtime partner Bobby Cannavale, talks to Fatherly about why her kids don’t think she’s a star, finding salvation through aerobics in Physical, and whether she’s up for a Bridesmaids sequel. Let’s start with Peter Rabbit, which must make you something of a hero to your two boys. They’re so funny. I dropped my little boy at kindergarten yesterday. He’s five and change....

RELATED: Life-Saving Car Seat Alarms That Remind Parents There’s A Baby in the Back Seat Following on the heels of Congressman Tim Ryan’s (D-OH) HOT CARS (Helping Overcome Trauma for Children Alone in Rear Seats) Act of 2017 in the House of Representatives, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced a similar bill in the US Senate. If signed into law, it would require cars be equipped with an alarm to alert drivers that there is a child in the back seat....

Under current rules, Senators are required to be physically present on the Senate floor in order to participate in a vote. But until Thursday children were not allowed on the floor, meaning that a new parent like Duckworth would be forced to either miss essential votes or leave her daughter in order to cast her vote. With this new rule, Duckworth won’t be expected to make an unnecessary compromise just to do her job....

The Senior Citizens League, a nonpartisan organization made up of “active senior citizens concerned about the protection of their Social Security, Medicare, and veteran or military retiree benefits,” says that seniors need an economic impact payment of their own. Their reasoning? The current relatively high rate of inflation means that the cost of living adjustment to Social Security will likely raise payments by more than six percent next year. COLA is designed to keep the buying power of Social Security recipients steady from year to year—more money is needed to buy the same things when the price of those things goes up—but the higher payments can cause other problems for recipients....

Part of me wants to agree with you. For the high schooler down the street, bringing in $14 an hour to play games or watch TV with my kid seems a lot better than making $10 stocking shelves at the department store. But when you look at the actual data on this stuff, your wife starts to look like the winner on this one. I say that based on Care....

Bitcoin is the buzz. Every day, it becomes easier to buy and sell. You can now use Paypal to buy Bitcoin with a few clicks. Last week, Square’s Cash App — run by Bitcoin evangelist Jack Dorsey — started allowing its 36 million users to send and receive the cryptocurrency with no transaction fees. In the first month and a half of 2021, Robinhood reported that six million customers made their first crypto trade on the platform....

Shushing could work once, maybe twice, as a quick reminder of what a child is supposed to do, but it’s not a sustainable go-to move. “They’ll get used to it and a shush won’t carry any weight,” says Philip Zelazo, professor of child development at University of Minnesota. The bigger problem is that the shushing sound gives kids what they’re after: attention. It becomes a reward and an encouragement for more disruptions, says Abigail Gewirtz, professor of family science and child development at University of Minnesota and author of When the World Feels Like a Scary Place....

As for movies, Scenes From a Marriage and The Many Saints of Newark should be at the top of your binge list. Best of all, Dune comes out less than a month from now, and The Matrix Resurrections will be out on HBO Max this winter. This deal is only good through this Sunday (9/26), so jump on it while you can. HBO Max’s usual monthly price is more than other streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, or Disney+, and their sales are few and far between....

To create the rankings, Kisi judged each city on 18 factors which were placed into four categories: work intensity (which includes minimum vacation days offered and taken), city livability (which includes affordability, safety, and happiness), society and institutions (which includes healthcare and access to mental healthcare), and COVID-19 impact. From there, they were able to compare the work-life balance of 50 major cities in the United States. Salt Lake City was found to be the city with the best work-life balance, as residents experience low work intensity, combined with excellent livability that allows them to not have work completely control their lives....

Let’s state the obvious: Unless you have the palette of an eight-year-old, these cookies sound disgusting, a union of candy and cookie of flavors that have no business commingling. But you, the parent, are not the target audience: your eight-year-old, who does have the palette of an eight-year-old, is. The novelty of Frankenfoods — Reese’s Puffs and Doritos Locos Tacos come to mind — is hard for kids to resist in normal times....