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Becoming a babysitter in my thirties, I discovered I can be a kid person without having kids.

What Romper editors are looking forward to reading this summer — preferably with a popsicle and one eye on the kiddie pool.

“And I have a tia, a mommy, and a daddy. I’m so lucky.”

The oldest kid in my life is 15; the youngest is in diapers. Here’s what I’ve learned: Your child will probably be fine.

How will they move through the world when their parents aren’t there to tell them how to be? I am an adult in their lives who offers them low-stakes practice in figuring that out.

Once I figured this out, missing out on motherhood was no longer the foundational disappointment of my life.

I want to be able to say, “Oh, we’ve been friends for his whole life,” and to know that’s something we both chose.

Bouder has spent decades as a professional dancer with the New York City Ballet. Now she’s questioning whether it’s a safe world for her daughter to join.

In his essay collection Attachments, Lucas Mann tackles body image, gender, technology, identity, existential grief, and the subgenre that is dad jokes.

In order to understand why we may fear transition regret and detransition, it’s helpful to think about our relationship with regret overall.