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People say parenting has gotten harder and parents are reporting more stress. But what was it like 20 years ago, 30 years ago, 40 years ago?
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Generational Divides with Nick Gillespie: Are the Parents Alright?
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Release Date: May 29, 2026
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We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that tackles America’s extreme polarization of our nation and our politics by restoring critical thinking, facts, reason, and civility to public discourse. Weekly debates on NPR, Spotify, Apple, & YouTube.
Host of Reason Interview pod, editor at large at Reason, coauthor of Declaration of Independents, literature Ph.D., former teen mag editor. "...is to libertarianism what Lou Reed is to rock ‘n’ roll, the quintessence of its outlaw spirit."-NY Times
Reshma Saujani is a leading movement builder, the founder of Girls Who Code and Moms First, a New York Times bestselling author, and the host of the hit podcast My So-Called Midlife with Lemonada Media.
Open to Debate's Moderator-in-Chief since 2008. Network Correspondent, Author, Filmmaker. Pulitzer prize finalist and four-time Emmy Award winner.
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