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Dear Care and Feeding, My grandfather died this year. He and I were very close, and I am still grief-stricken. He took me in when my parents kicked me out—because I was gay—when I was teenager. I believe he saved my life, honestly. I am eternally grateful to him. Advertisement My wife and I moved him in with us a few years ago when he became too ill and frail to live alone, and I’m so glad we had that time with him. He adored my wife and was keen to help financially with our attempts at g...

Parenting advice on adoption, foster parenting, and asexuality.

Dear Care and Feeding, I recently got engaged to a man who has two children from his prior marriage. The children are 7 and 9 and my fiancé has them part of the time, but they spend the majority of their time with their mother. At the beginning of our relationship, my fiancé set clear expectations: he wouldn’t introduce me to the children unless our relationship became serious; if it did, he would be making all parenting decisions. He said he’d had difficulties with his ex-wife around th...

Parenting advice on racism, hair color, and adoption.

Dear Care and Feeding,  My husband and I both come from families of heavy drinkers, something I would say is a part of our respective cultures. Throughout our childhoods and to this day, beer, wine, and vodka flow freely at our family’s homes. My husband and I have been exceedingly careful to avoid alcohol addiction, but many of our family members are functioning alcoholics. It’s hard to tell because they’re all “regular” adults who hold down normal jobs and behave normally. But no d...

Parenting advice on being a single dad, grief, and sleep.

Parenting advice on eating alone, dangerous libraries, and religious schooling.

Parenting advice on hygiene, therapy, and competitive neighbors.

Spectacle podcast for a dramatic livestreamed discussion of the  Bachelor. The first Black Bachelor appeared on screen just this season, there has only been one LGBTQ storyline in nearly 100 seasons and spinoffs, and the show can feel woefully dated in its expectations of gender roles.  Spectacle podcast host Mariah Smith, Slate’s Rachelle Hampton, Los Angeles Times staff writer Amy Kaufman, and author Brian Moylan take a deep dive into all the fun and drama. Use the player above or t...

Dear Care and Feeding, My partner and I have been living together for over a year. It’s been going amazingly well. He’s a very considerate, loving, and generous man. We plan to marry and have children within the next two years. He is Black and I am White. Often, when I bring up the subject of what our kids will be like, he expresses a desire for them to be White, blond-haired, or blue-eyed. I am White, albeit not blond or blue-eyed. I couldn’t care less what they look like, and I always a...