I have written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, TIME, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Slate Magazine, The Week, Fairer Disputations, FiveThirtyEight, The Dispatch, Fast Company, Public Discourse, The Lily (RIP), Reason, Input Magazine, Romper, and elsewhere. I am terrible about updating this page regularly (if you’d like to keep up with my work in real time, subscribe to my newsletter over on Substack). Nevertheless, here are some of my favorite pieces:
On Not Raising a Cyborg-Sexual (Fairer Disputations)
Are We Willing to Admit That We Need Parents? (The Dispatch)
Cultural Shifts Alone Won’t Persuade People to Have Kids (The Atlantic)
What Adults Lost When Kids Stopped Playing in the Street (The Atlantic)
Why Parents Don’t Mind If Their Kids Don’t Marry (The Atlantic)
If We Value Homemaking, We Should Rethink Welfare Reform (Public Discourse)
Raising a Daughter With a Body Like Mine (The Atlantic)
The Strange Persistence of the Work Marriage (The Atlantic)
The Dilemma of Babies on Airplanes (The Atlantic)
Should Friends Offer Honesty or Validation? (The Atlantic)
Why We Long for the Most Difficult Days of Parenthood (The Atlantic)
Is the Internet Killing the Nude Beach? (The Atlantic)
Why Are People So Weird About Pain in Childbirth? (The Atlantic)
Cities Aren’t Built for Kids (The Atlantic)
Are Stepparents Parents? (The Atlantic)
The Next Century’s Big Demographic Mystery (The Atlantic)
The Parenting Problem the Government Can’t Fix (The Week)
How Low Can America’s Birth Rate Go Before It’s a Problem? (FiveThirtyEight)
Stephanie H. Murray 