HeyJaredThe Family Frontier
Analysis, future-casting, and philosophizing on child care & family policy from Elliot Haspel
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Why Stay-at-Home Parents Should Be Part of Child Care Policy: A Liberal’s Case For Inclusion (opens the original)
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Notes: As I get started in earnest on book writing for The Age of Care, Family Frontier posting may be more irregular than usual. Also, I’m proud to have co-authored, with , an essay for a symposium on the future of public education from Democracy: A Journal of Ideas; our entry is entitled “Don’t Forget the Family,” and feels all the more relevant in the current education conversation sparked by Nikole Hannah-Jones’ <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/magazine/ny-public-schools-
Federal Child Care Policy Was Never Designed for This (opens the original)
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Notes: Hey, I’m writing a new book! Much more to come on The Age of Care, and I’ll have some sneak peeks for paid subscribers, but I’m very excited to share this journey with y’all. Also, I have a few pieces out recently — a co-authored article on the ills of online sports betting for families here; an op-ed about
The Trump Stay-At-Home-Parent Child Care Proposal: It’s a Trap! (opens the original)
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Update, 9/8/26: I went on FoxNews’ streaming show yesterday to talk about the proposal, you can see that clip here.By now, you’ve likely seen the New York Times scoop
The Wisdom of Urie Bronfenbrenner, Redux (opens the original)
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Last May, I wrote a Family Frontier piece on the eminent developmental psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner, his “ecological systems theory” of child development, and an old talk of his I found from 1976. (If you’re not familiar with Bronfenbrenner or his work, I’d recommend going back to that article as a refresher.) Well, I’ve recently come across a
Unpacking A New Paper on “Big Daycare” (opens the original)
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If you follow my work, you know that I’ve done quite a bit of investigating and writing on the question of investor-backed for-profit child care chains, including those owned by private equity firms. Today, the first significant academic research working paper on private equity and child care in the U.S. was published, and because the findings are both important and nuanced I want to take some time to break it down.<a class="footnote-anchor" href="#footnote-1" id="f
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