Building a Parent Nation

04/28/22 • 33 min

How can we support children? By supporting their parents - particularly during the most critical years of their children’s development. Dr. Dana Suskind, author of the new book “Parent Nation”, joins us to explain how through a combination of interdisciplinary science and large-scale advocacy we can build a society where parents - and as a result their children - are supported in all aspects of life.

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Child Poverty in the US: Causes, Effects, and Solutions

Child poverty is a problem that’s much closer to home than many of us realize, with over a third of US children living in poverty at some point in their childhood. Dr. Benard Dreyer, Director of Pediatrics at Bellevue Hospital and one of the strongest voices in pediatrics on this issue, joins us to talk about the long and short term effects of child poverty and what we can do to alleviate it.