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Show 42: Excerpt - The Cost of Raising Kids
In addition to considering one's own physical and mental health when starting a family, financial health is also a serious consideration - whether it's your first child or you're planning for baby...
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Show 43: Excerpt - Childlessness Rates Up; Changing Social Attitudes
A recent Pew Research study found that rates of childlessness among all women are on the rise, while rates of childlessness among women with advanced degrees are decreasing. We ask: could this be due...
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Show 44: The Adolescent Boy
BOYS WILL BE boys, they say – but why exactly? We ask what makes adolescent boys 11-14 unique and what changes are their bodies – and their minds – going through at this developmental stage? Do boys...
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Show 61: Excerpt - Adopting Step-Children
NOT ALL ADOPTIONS involve a long application process or a home study. Some are more of a formalization of how a family is already working, like when a step-parent adopts their spouse’s child.KTD...
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Show 62: Excerpt - Alaska's Family-Friendly Employers
AS A WORKING mom or dad, how good you feel about your work-life balance may have a lot to do with where you work. Some companies go out of their way to help working parents juggle all of the demands of...
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Show 68: Excerpt - Families Talk About Religion
MANY KIDS ARE first exposed to religion by their parents or caregivers. Religion can play a huge role in the how families choose to educate their kids, too.Contributor Aviva Hirsch spoke with two...
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Show 82 Excerpt - Detour: From Suburban Ohio to Remote Alaska Homestead
The Alaska Magazine article that started it allA FEW YEARS ago our producer, Sarah Gonzales, took a dog sledding trip in Healy. There, she met the couple who owned the remote lodge and they told her...
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Show 82 Excerpt - Detour: From Family to Foster to Family Again
THE MAJOR DETOUR in Cha'ron McCray's life happened a long time ago. Imagine being faced with a choice about who would raise you? And being given that choice when you were a still a child? Today,...
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Show 82: Excerpt - Detour: From Mongolia to Alaska
AN ALASKAN NOVELIST gave us the idea for this program a few months ago. She wrote to us to pitch a number of story ideas and she ended the list with this: I can imagine an entire show about life...
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Show 82: Excerpt - Detour: From Juneau to Anchorage with Twins
MEET THE NEWMANS. A few years ago, Dave and Amy lived in Juneau where they were both practicing lawyers. They’d been there for about seven years and they couldn’t really decide if they wanted to have...
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