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

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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 tune in on Facebook or YouTube to add your own questions and comments on Tuesday at 4 p.m. Easter...

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 ask him why he feels that way, and point out that it’s rather unlikely. He never gives a straight a...